A 35-year-old man was found several hours after he died inside a barn he had been cleaning. He had been using a pressure washer with an 11-horsepower gasoline engine.
When a construction foreman was found dead in water at the bottom of a manhole, his workers followed him into the confined space and risked death themselves. The fatality occurred when his crew was installing
Failure to maintain equipment resulted in a fatal explosion in a metal products plant. Oil that had oozed from a hydraulic press caught fire. The fire caused two hydraulic fluid accumulators to explode.
A machine at a steel foundry was found to be jammed in the "up" position and could not be lowered. The plant maintenance mechanic, who was an experienced and careful worker, was called to repair
A crew had spent the night shift drilling in preparation for blasting rock in a mine. They set off the blast, but heard only about half of the expected shots. They went to work on
An experienced mechanic/welder was crushed to death by a door on a metal shredder at a large scrap iron facility. The hydraulically-operated door flips down to reject unshredded metals.
Two truck drivers were killed in two separate incidents in the mining industry. These fatalities had something in common - neither driver was wearing a seat belt.
If your company sends its workers into areas where they may encounter potentially dangerous wildlife, here's a heads up:
David S. Ganoe Jr. , a school maintenance supervisor, was gunned down in his office in Caroline, VA. Police report that Thomas E. Monroe, 66, a former maintenance employee, was charged with murder of the 51-year-old.
Trevor was 24 years old when he died in an unguarded conveyor at an asphalt plant, where investigators concluded that several safety procedures could have prevented his death.
Talking to your workers about electrical hazards is always timely. [...]
Workers were preparing to fill a rail tanker car with canola oil for shipment. A hose fell into the car, and one worker climbed into the tanker to retrieve it. He was overcome by the
A worker died of electrocution when a cable hanging from a crane touched a high voltage power line. He was helping to unload concrete pilings from a flatbed truck, and was guiding the pilings as
A welder was cutting metal while working in a high contamination area of a nuclear energy site. A spark or a piece of hot metal landed on the lower leg of his anti-contamination coveralls. Because
A cleanup person was instructed by his foreman to do the cleanup of a conveyor area jammed with debris. This involved loading the debris onto the conveyor, running it until it was clean, shutting it
A laborer working in a pulp mill went into an old, unused control room for his lunch break. Warning lights were flashing indicating a potentially dangerous situation with a plugged pressure sensing device. The worker;
A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire. A sanitation district had hired a contractor to install a gate valve in a hydraulic channel. The limited-access channel was
Two British Columbia workers and two paramedics who tried to help them all died very quickly from a lack of oxygen, according to coroner Bruce Chamberlayne. But the reason why a formerly safe area would turn deadly hasn't been stated.
We're taught to make eye contact to signify our intentions - such as when crossing the road on a crosswalk.
A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
A miner died of asphyxia following the collapse of a section of a mine he was working in.
The saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" has [...]
A worker and his supervisor were working in a confined space using a flammable substance and an acetylene torch. The confined space was a freshwater pumping station. The two men were installing rigid foam insulation
A journeyman painter died of massive thermal burns caused when an electrical contact set off an explosion of volatile waterproofing material. The painter and a co-worker were in the basket of a personlift, designed to
An apprentice mechanic, working part-time with a transport company, was working when a drum of windshield washer antifreeze exploded. The explosion was set off by a spark from his welding. The investigation into this death
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