An apprentice electrician was killed by contact with 525 volts while he was installing a switchgear for a large piece of machinery in a manufacturing plant. The victim was running a ground wire when he
A worker on a portable sawmill was killed when he was hit in the head by an unguarded drive shaft that had been displaced by the impact of heavy equipment working in the area. A
A punch press operator was killed when he was struck in the head by a hand crank tool. The fatality occurred in a plant that manufactures lenses and other parts for developing photographic film.
A maintenance worker was crossing a yard on his way to a welding shop. He took a shortcut, walking behind a forklift that was on a ramp. The forklift operator had stopped to check his
A worker was crushed by a load of steel when it was knocked off a truck. She was assisting at the receiving end of an operation loading 50-foot steel I-beams onto a truck. Her job
A volunteer died of head and chest injuries when he fell 18 feet to a concrete floor while helping repair a community sports facility.
A railway maintenance worker was working on a train trestle. He was standing on a plywood platform and was involved in tightening a bolt on the trestle when his wrench became stuck. He heaved on
Three workers were crushed by a rockfall in a mine tunnel, resulting in one death. The fatality occurred when the experienced mine crew was working near the site of a previous incident caused by a
A mother was out in the yard of her family farm with her four-month-old baby. A movement caught her eye and she turned to see the cows traveling through a broken fence in the adjacent
A loader operator was pulling a conveyer to a new job site. He had been operating a loader on mining leases for approximately five months and was described as being "quite careful" in his driving.
Could This Have Been You? A shooter and his helper were detonating 2.5 lb charges loaded at a depth of 20 feet.
An experienced mechanic/welder was crushed to death by a door on a metal shredder at a large scrap iron facility. The hydraulically-operated door flips down to reject unshredded metals.
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
Could This Have Been You? A delivery truck driver died after being crushed by his own vehicle.
A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed.
In 2000-2001, three welders in Massachusetts were fatally injured while cutting metal containers with torches.
A 40-year-old plumber was electrocuted when he contacted frayed wires on his work light.
A Haitian man who was working hard for a better life died suddenly when scaffolding he was moving collapsed onto him at a construction site in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Hoisting an automobile engine by the use of chains and a forklift proved deadly in a California auto shop recently.
One minute he was applying a flammable solvent to a floor to loosen linoleum. The next moment he was engulfed in flames, with third and fourth-degree burns to most of his body.
A deckhand on a fishing boat was fatally injured when a boom collapsed.
When workers are electrocuted at worksites it's often because metal objects they are holding touch overhead electrical lines.
The Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick is investigating the death of a excavator operator
A terrible incident in Tennessee, in which an equipment operator died from severe burns, shows how important it is to keep equipment inspected and properly maintained.
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