Football Jersey Gets Caught in a Conveyor Belt
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 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 warehouseman at a store was assigned the job of taking the garbage from the store and putting it into a shredder - compactor. After loading the boxes into the shredder he jumped on top
A truck traveling over the speed limit hit a traffic control vehicle and burst into flames in a rollover. The lone driver had passed several vehicles before smashing into the rear of a signal truck.
A 54-year-old construction laborer died after a motor grader rolled over his upper back and head. The man, who was one of a crew of nine workers, was helping to install a new road in
Failing to wear seatbelts cost one driver his life in a rollover that also injured the passenger.

Workplace violence reared its ugly head in Caroline, VA, recently when a school maintenance supervisor was gunned down in his office.

We're taught to make eye contact to signify our intentions - such as when crossing the road on a crosswalk.
A 32-year-old police officer died after being struck by a vehicle.

Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
A crane oiler was crushed between counterweights and the superstructure (base) of a rotating mobile crane.
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

Early in the evening an operator of a crane was installing storm sewer pipes. Suddenly, the boom of the crane contacted the overhead high tension wires. A pipe layer who was guiding the pipe as

A makeshift switch on a sandblasting unit apparently set off an explosion of gasoline vapors killing a worker who was cleaning a petroleum storage tank. The victim had recently been promoted to foreman. His first
A front-end loader was working on a dirt road beside a fly ash pit. The loader went off the road into the pit, turned over and pinned the driver under water, where he drowned. The

A worker received massive head injuries when a crane lifting a 54,600-pound piece of steel tipped over. The crane was unstable because one outrigger device, which extends from the crane to balance it was inoperable.
One week after he answered a "help wanted" sign in a pizza shop window, a young man died of injuries from a motor vehicle crash. He was making a delivery near the pizza place, which

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.
A 17-year-old teenager who was operating a defective forklift in a construction yard in Portsmouth, UK, died suddenly when the machine overturned and crushed him.

At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.
A 26-year-old mechanic was struck and killed by a side ring from a multi-piece (split) tire rim.

Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
An equipment operator, a long-time employee of a municipality, was crushed between trucks at the service bay.
People don't tend to think of the fall as a [...]