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A laborer at a surface quarry mine was trying to take apart a crane boom to install additional sections. He had trouble removing one of the pins holding two sections together. While underneath an unsupported
A food production worker employed at a pizza dough manufacturing plant was killed when he was struck in the neck by the steel blade on a dough machine. The victim and a co-worker were assigned
A backhoe in poor repair could only be started by using a screwdriver to engage the starter. Besides its inoperable starter button, the backhoe had a broken safety catch on the gear shift. In addition,
The cold storage area of a food warehouse was the scene of a forklift fatality. The victim was working from a standup forklift when he backed into a chain. His neck was pinned between the
A driver working for a shiploader was killed when he backed a forklift off the edge of a pier. There was no barrier or bull rail in place to prevent such a tragedy, but a
A mechanic working for a snowmobile dealer was killed on a test drive. He had worked on the machine, and was trying it out on a public snowmobile trail near his workplace. He was traveling
A worker cleaning metal pieces prior to repainting was found unconscious at his workstation. Resuscitation by co-workers, firefighters and ambulance attendants failed to revive him. Methylene chloride formic acid was suspected as a cause of
A student working on a summer job was electrocuted when a truck-mounted crane he was operating struck a power line. The driver of the truck instructed the student to move the crane, then backed the
A hydraulic cylinder crushed the cab of a dump truck, fatally injuring the driver. The incident occurred when the driver was dumping a load of waste from the truck. When the dump box was raised
Hospital workers are certainly not unaccustomed to death, but when a fellow worker dies in an incident there, shock waves reverberate throughout the facility.
"That's what you get for firing me," said the man shooting rounds from a semi-automatic handgun at a group of managers. Three were killed and two were injured when the ex-employee found the group in
A mine worker fell 500 feet (152 meters) to his death down a vertical passageway used to transport ore. His job was ore pass operator. He monitored the flow of ore down the pass and
Could This Have Been You?
Two 53-year-old male maintenance mechanics died when a suspended steel dock plate fell on them.
Could This Have Been You? A rig manager was picking up two nitrogen bottles and two 10 gallon accumulator bottles from a third party distributor.
A clean-up person at a veneer manufacturing plant died as a result of wounds received after being struck by a rotating cut-off saw.
Four-year-old Tylerann Zadroga lost her mother in 2004 and now her father is dead at age 34.
The recent death of 27-year-old Octavio Godinez is a lesson to everyone on the job - don't drive while impaired by injury.
Two truck drivers were killed in two separate incidents in the mining industry. These fatalities had something in common - neither driver was wearing a seat belt.
A Gatorade bottle on the worksite should have nothing else in it but Gatorade or water.
A 44-year-old experienced tree trimmer died recently after apparently suffocating in the foliage of a palm tree in San Diego, CA.
A leaking methane seal and an open flame were key factors in a Kentucky mine explosion that claimed five lives in May 2006.
If only Tim had realized he was seconds away from death while watching his co-worker excavate a trench with a backhoe; he would have run away as far as possible.
A numbered company in Alberta has been issued a whopping $350,000 fine
It was like something out of a horror movie. But it really happened.
More than 2,000 Chinese miners have died in work-related incidents this year to date
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