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Know the Dangers of Confined Spaces
You need to know about the dangers of confined spaces - even if you don't work in them.
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You need to know about the dangers of confined spaces - even if you don't work in them.

Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
A mobile home assembly worker was electrocuted while installing a roof on a mobile home.
A truck driver died after trying to fix a tarp that covered the load on his trailer.
A construction worker was killed when a skid-steer loader crushed him against a dump truck.

A mechanic was killed when a bus fell on him. He apparently had used a 12-ton bottle jack under the differential to raise the rear of the 35,000-pound (15,875-kilogram) bus.
An equipment operator, a long-time employee of a municipality, was crushed between trucks at the service bay.
An assistant mountaineering guide died when he fell from a mountain ridge.

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A worker was instructed to mechanically trowel a concrete floor slab on the 30th floor of a building under construction. Instead, he went for a nap on the 29th floor. After his nap, he tried
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An 18-year-old worker at a construction site was electrocuted when he touched a light fixture while descending from a scaffold for his afternoon break. The source of the electricity was apparently a short in a receptacle, but examination revealed that the electrical equipment used by the contractor was in such poor condition that it was impossible to make a certain determination of the source of the short.

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