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.
A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire.
Lift trucks are handy tools found on the sites of [...]
An experienced crane operator was running an electrically powered gantry crane in a process building which was in the final stages of construction. Other than the occasional use of a propane-powered forklift, there were no
A flash fire killed an electrician's apprentice when he touched a switch he thought was de-energized. The mishap occurred at a transformer station. The apprentice was part of a team doing modifications on equipment at
A welder in a metalwork plant pushed a 250 amp welder on a dolly over to a wall outlet. He plugged it in with his right hand while his left hand was on the welder.
The night shift crew at a paper mill told the incoming day shift supervisor that the press was putting an unwanted black line on the paper being produced.
The following is a real-life example of what went wrong and what corrective measures resulted from an incident in the oil and gas industry.
Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak.
A 37-year-old welder died when an explosion occurred in the tanker trailer where he was working.
When workers are electrocuted at worksites it's often because metal objects they are holding touch overhead electrical lines.
A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
A welder was killed while welding on a wastewater recovery tank.
It’s important to warn your workers about the different heat-related [...]
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.
A plant worker climbed eight feet up a steel storage rack structure to retrieve material from a top shelf. He fell to the concrete floor and died. The workplace did not have the proper equipment
An empty water tank weighing 14 tons (12.7 metric tons) was being lifted by a crane onto a water tower frame. The land around the new community water tower had been excavated the previous month
A load of wooden beams fell from a flatbed trailer and killed a person who was standing by to help hook the trailer to a transport tractor. The victim and another worker were hired to
The following is a real-life example of what went wrong and what corrective measures resulted from an incident in the oil and gas industry.
A 17-year old worker died just one hour into his new job after becoming pinned under a forklift. He hadn't received any job orientation or training.
In 2000-2001, three welders in Massachusetts were fatally injured while cutting metal containers with torches.
We're taught to make eye contact to signify our intentions - such as when crossing the road on a crosswalk.
You need to know about the dangers of confined spaces - even if you don't work in them.
A storage rack was moved close to the welder?s workshop and placed on its side for repair.
Had the crew of a barge used a steel pin [...]
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