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In the first fatality for his company, a North Carolina worker died after a fall from a truck bed.
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In the first fatality for his company, a North Carolina worker died after a fall from a truck bed.
Having a swing stage scaffold motor fail can be a pain, but if a worker is left stranded in a hazardous area, he or she can die.
Sixteen-year-old Shona* didn't even have time to react to the robber's demand for money before the bullet from his gun shattered her skull.

A crew leadman and a foreman were fatally burned when their oxygen-saturated clothing caught fire.
An experienced operations manager for a well servicing company died after being hit in the head with a length of pipe.
The owner of a lumber company was struck and fatally injured by a falling tree just minutes after arriving at work.
A 66-year-old carpenter died after falling from the plank of an improvised scaffold.
A 23-year-old worker at a company that produces concrete and brick pavers, masonry and retaining walls, died after becoming caught in a concrete mixer.
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