A 59-year-old worker at a plant that makes plastic bags was fatally injured after falling down industrial stairs.
In the first fatality for his company, a North Carolina worker died after a fall from a truck bed.
A worker was killed when he fell down a large uncovered shaft in a shopping mall tower under construction. He was a mechanical equipment maintenance person who worked for a large city shopping mall, and
A worker received an electric shock when he touched a boom on a lifting device. The ground wire had become detached. It was a hot day, so his skin was sweaty and moist, making it
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
February was a bad month for Canadian firefighters. Two veteran firefighters were killed in Winnipeg in a flashover incident during a house fire.
Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
A barge maintenance worker was found dead of asphyxiation in a compartment on the vessel. The barge, used as a construction base camp, was being prepared for the upcoming construction season. On the day of
A worker operating an automatic die-cast system died after being crushed between the back end of an industrial robot and a steel safety pole. The hydraulic robot had been installed in an existing production line
A maintenance worker with no electrical training was electrocuted while doing renovation work in a 10-story office tower. The victim was standing on an aluminum ladder removing ceiling tiles when both hands made contact with
A young father of two children was killed in an unusual manner in Dayton, OH, late in 2006. Thomas Morgan, 29, was trying to free a jam in a concrete crusher when he was struck by part of the machine.
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
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 experienced worker and his untrained helper lowered an aluminum ladder into an underground fuel storage tank. A small access hatch had been cut into the tank using a water cooled saw. One of the
A construction foreman died and a laborer was critically injured after they were exposed to toxic gases while working in a sewage pumping station dry well.
When workers are electrocuted at worksites it's often because metal objects they are holding touch overhead electrical lines.
The symptoms of heat-related illness would have been obvious to anyone trained to spot them.
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