Welding Spark Causes Deadly Explosion
Welding torch sparks and oil tanks don't mix. Actually that's not true. Under the right circumstances they can mix with tragic results.

Welding torch sparks and oil tanks don't mix. Actually that's not true. Under the right circumstances they can mix with tragic results.
Standing on a pile of stacked rounded steel bars proved to be a deadly decision for a worker. The worker climbed onto the pile in a warehouse in order to attach a sling so a
An ironworker died after falling 23 feet (seven meters) from a steel girder at a construction site.

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.
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call at a decommissioned mine in British Columbia were among four people who died there.
A derrickman was killed when a hoist line failed after the traveling block ran into the rig crown.

Not knowing English can cause all kinds of safety problems for workers, but a recent case in California shows how it may endanger non-workers too.

A 19-year-old immigrant from Mexico died from heat stress on the job in Fort Worth, TX, where he reportedly never saw a paycheck.
Using a foot to clear a jammed wood chipper sadly left the owner of a tree service company in Wisconsin with more than a leg injury.
A 35-year-old Anderson, IN, worker died from burn injuries after an electrical fire started in a service room at a new Wal-Mart store in Bloomington.
Many people in the safety business don't like the word accident, because it suggests nothing could have been done to prevent the situation.
Whether operating potentially dangerous machinery or driving home after a long shift, workers suffering the effects of fatigue are far from being at their best.

At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.

You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
A 20-year-old man, who should have had a lifetime ahead of him, didn't get to enjoy it. The man had a job with a steel fabricating company and a few months' experience driving a forklift
A 47-year-old logger was working to set the chokers in a cable logging operation.
In an attempt to dislodge some wood on a conveyor belt, a manager at a wood products plant in Maine walked out onto an I-beam.
A 59-year old worker was clearing snow from a rail station walkway when he was struck and killed by an approaching freight train.
The 12-year-old victim was the farmer's nephew. He'd been helping bale hay on his uncle's 700-acre farm.
A simple broken weld seam caused the death of a 68-year-old man, when an anhydrous ammonia tank ruptured.

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.
Deputy Sheriff Tony was quite certain that the downed power line hanging only a few inches above the road was a ground wire that was safe to move by hand. He couldn't have been more wrong.
A foundry laborer was electrocuted as he was helping to feed stainless steel scrap into a furnace refractory.
A machine operator at a textile plant died of asphyxia when his torso was compressed in an automated circular knitting machine.
A construction worker died when a 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) steel pile (column) struck him.