Deviating from standard machinery operating procedures is always a gamble. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) alleges that failure to follow procedures contributed to a worker's death at a plastics company in Sarepta, LA.
A worker at a manufacturing company died after falling through an unguarded snow-covered skylight.
Wanting to hype his audience up in advance of an acrobatic performance, circus ringmaster Jesus Vasquez
Two New York contractors have both been sentenced to six-month jail terms in connection with the death of a worker
A car dealer in the Atlanta area stands charged with two counts of murder after two employees were shot dead.
A 34-year-old machine worker was electrocuted during a cleanup job at the wood pellet manufacturing plant where he worked in Oregon.
An Ohio worker who breathed hydrogen sulfide gas fell into a coma and died after rescuing a co-worker.
An unsupervised nightshift worker died because a giant mixer was not locked out.
An electrical arc ignited dust in a wood flour mill, causing an explosion that burned a worker to death.
A 30-foot (10-meter) high concrete retaining wall made of interlocking concrete blocks was already in place. Then workers began to install concrete caps on top of the wall.
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
Your five senses are of little use in alerting you to respiratory hazards. You usually can't see, feel or hear them, and they often have no smell or taste
A truck driver was killed when he was caught between the tailgate of a semi-truck trailer and a seed dispenser at a cotton gin.
A 53-year-old backhoe operator was killed, and his son seriously injured, when the wall of a trench they were working in caved in.
A worker died after being crushed by a palletizer lift. The automated equipment fills pallets with cases of soft drinks.
A worker was fatally injured when he was crushed between the cross member of the boom lift arm and the frame of a skid-steer loader.
A window mechanic died from generalized trauma when he fell through a window he was trying to replace on the 21st floor of an office building.
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A textile worker was working on a conveyor belt. At the end of a day's production she had to clean the belt using a highly volatile cleaning solvent. This solvent was used very close to
A laboratory used for analyzing rock samples in the oil and gas industry was the scene of a fatal chemical exposure.
A worker painting a fence along a railway was killed when he stepped in front of an express train. He was part of a crew painting the fence located at a rail crossing barrier. The
Two commercial divers drowned when they became trapped by a water leak on a seaway lock. The first diver went down to inspect a malfunctioning underwater valve. He became trapped because water leaking to the
An employee at a ski area drowned when he was trapped in water in an underground vault. Co-workers found his body entangled with the pipes and valves in the vault.
A missing third prong from an electrical plug resulted in the electrocution death of a laborer. He was climbing a ladder to hand a power drill to another worker when he received a fatal shock.
An experienced electrical engineer was electrocuted while removing dust from equipment in the main electrical distribution room of a hotel. The man was employed by a maintenance company inspecting and improving the hotel's heating and
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