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A laborer was steam cleaning a scraper used in a street paving project. The hydraulically-controlled bowl apron of the scraper weighing approximately 2,500 pounds had been left in the raised position. It had not been
A farm employee was trapped and crushed in a hopper while he was unloading alfalfa cubes from a truck. He had parked the truck close to the powered hopper. A conveyor from the truck to
A bank vault installer was crushed to death between a forklift and a steel panel. Ordinarily the panels are moved by a lifting device which is part of the vault panel. However, on this vault
A window cleaner was working from a boatswain's chair, a device used for working at heights. He apparently got off the chair to clean the entire seventh floor windows along a catwalk. Because he did
A chunk of broken grinder disk smashed a worker's faceshield and hit him in the forehead, causing a fatal head injury. The employee at a metal castings plant had been using an angle grinder to
A new untrained worker died of a head injury after he was hit by a falling tree. He was standing at the rear of a skidder being used in a logging operation at the time of the incident.
A relatively new truck driver was engaged in transporting rock from the underground blasting area in a mine to the surface. He was still in what has been referred to as a "training position." He
A volunteer firefighter was fatally injured after being thrown from a water tanker during a rollover. The victim was traveling to a wildland fire on an unpaved road within a national forest. The tanker went
Tell your crew about what happened to these workers. Failing to identify hazards before a job leads to many accidents in the oil and gas industry.
Five feet of slack meant the difference between life and death for a California warehouse worker. The man was working at a salt processing plant, cleaning the inside of a salt storage bin, when the
Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak.
Could This Have Been You? The young driver desperately radioed for help on how to stop the runaway dump truck he was in, but it was too late.
A 22-year-old carpenter was working at a construction site where a multi-unit apartment complex was being built.
A Chevrolet Camaro suddenly screeched into the work zone. It slammed into a parked vehicle, hit Theresa, then crashed into a dump truck and backhoe. Theresa was pronounced dead at the scene.
Every single day about 1,000 people injure an eye on the job. Some of these injuries are called "minor", but even a minor eye injury results in lost work time, pain, and sometimes lasting damage.
A construction worker died in a smokestack fire at a West Virginia power plant and three others were plucked by helicopter from the 900-foot structure while it burned.
Argon gas, used in welding, is not toxic but that doesn't mean it can't kill. Why? Argon gas can displace oxygen, potentially asphyxiating workers when used in confined spaces.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) has cited Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in connection with the deaths of three ski patrol members in April 2006.
The owners of a bottle depot recycling business and the company supervisor said they had no knowledge that a safety switch on a cardboard baler had been bypassed.
A 59-year-old worker at a plant that makes plastic bags was fatally injured after falling down industrial stairs.
She did everything she could to keep him from finding her, but in the end her best wasn't good enough.
Verbal instructions on how to perform a task aren't worth much if the worker isn't asked to demonstrate the task and then be supervised doing it until competency is assured.
The deaths of two Manhattan firefighters are being blamed on malfunctioning water pipes at a high rise tower there in late August.
A 27-year-old farmer was pulling a picking machine through a cornfield with a tractor.
The middle-aged farm worker was found by his fiancee in a large barn.
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