The symptoms of heat-related illness would have been obvious to anyone trained to spot them.
While helping to reshingle a farmhouse roof, a worker was handling an aluminum ladder. The ladder contacted 7,200 volts of electricity when it hit a power line. The worker was electrocuted. An electrical entry wound
A foreman placed a wooden ladder into a mixing vat that had recently been sprayed with a cleanser called methylene chloride. While on the ladder, he called over to a co-worker to start the fan in the vat.
Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak.
We're taught to make eye contact to signify our intentions - such as when crossing the road on a crosswalk.
A 61-year-old woodworker was killed as he was trying to replace a glue tray in a glue-press machine while it was still operating.
The following checklist on the uses of color coding and [...]
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
Three workers, one licensed electrician and two apprentices, were rewiring a residential basement. They were using a 300 watt lightbulb, drawing power from a temporary connection to power wires on an outside pole. The electrician
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.
At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.
Being experienced in your work does not provide immunity from injuries. Nearly a quarter of acute injuries happen to experienced workers - as a result of human errors.
Just as you use a checklist to inspect equipment, you [...]
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
A ladder touching a high tension wire - this scenario has caused countless fatalities in all kinds of industries and workplaces and homes. An employee of an aluminum siding company was electrocuted when the ladder
The murder of a teenage girl on her first solo night shift at a gas station has brought calls for improving security for night workers who must work alone.
Safety training is critical for any job and if you don't provide it and a worker becomes injured or dies as a result, you and your company could face a legal nightmare.
Sixteen-year-old Shona* didn't even have time to react to the robber's demand for money before the bullet from his gun shattered her skull.
A teenaged retail hardware sales associate was killed when he fell from a fiberglass extension ladder as he tried to change a light bulb. He died of a skull fracture when he landed headfirst on
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 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
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 [...]
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