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It's said life begins at 40. Sadly, for Gregory Scott Johnson, it ended at that age when he became caught between two hydraulic cylinders used to pull logs toward a saw at the Suwannee Lumber Co. in Dixie County, FL.
A 17-year-old teenager who was operating a defective forklift in a construction yard in Portsmouth, UK, died suddenly when the machine overturned and crushed him.
An immigrant from Ecuador who was working construction in the Bronx, NY, was killed in an unusual incident involving an excavator.
A young father of two children was killed in an unusual manner in Dayton, OH, late in 2006. Thomas Morgan, 29, was trying to free a jam in a concrete crusher when he was struck by part of the machine.
A 53-year-old construction worker died after trying to warn another worker to get away from a wall at a building demolition site in Wilkes-Bar, PA.
Like a pendulum, the outcome of an incident can swing either way, resulting in a close call or a workplace fatality.
The victim was a nurse at a care facility.
A fire that killed a Long Island, NY, man and critically injured his wife was caused by a faulty power cord, according to fire officials.
On his first day working for Trigon Inc., Andrew Ross, 29, never made it home.
A man died after being hospitalized with a back injury from a construction incident, although he died from an unrelated cause.
A South Carolina chemical plant worker who entered a large dryer to help an unconscious colleague died from lack of oxygen.
Menes Daniel, Torivio Acevedo and Endy Guirand were killed when a concrete form collapsed.
A 33-year-old man, with eight years of experience, was crushed by his own bulldozer when he fell between the treads and the deck.
A Canadian coroner is warning people about the overuse of cotton swabs after a Montreal man died following an ear infection last year.
A welder called off vacation to complete a rush job was electrocuted after touching the charged part of an electrode holder.
A worker was crushed underneath an overturned road-milling machine.
A saw operator died when struck by a 710-pound (322-kilogram) aluminum plate that fell while suspended by an overhead crane.
A pilot and his three passengers died when the air ambulance they were in crashed into a mountain range during a blizzard.
Standing on a makeshift platform spanning the forks of a lift truck isn?t safe. In California, doing so proved lethal for a 29-year-old worker.
Lift trucks are handy tools found on the sites of [...]
An explosion which killed a plumber may have been the result of using drugs at work. He had arrived at work with an apparent hangover. Co-workers had not seen him very much that day because
A worker and his supervisor were working in a confined space using a flammable substance and an acetylene torch. The confined space was a freshwater pumping station. The two men were installing rigid foam insulation
A worker in a soap manufacturing plant was covered in hot oil which exploded from a kettle. He died later of burns and infection. The hot oil was part of a bleaching operation. The conclusion
A crew boss described as "the safest man I ever worked for" was killed when he was hit by a mine train. He had instructed his workers not to take chances. He told them not
A mixer operator in a cement roofing tile plant noticed that the sand was not flowing from the bottom of a hopper onto the conveyor belt. A plant laborer was instructed by the operator to
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