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Leader, Best Friend’ Remembered
At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.
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At 21, Catrina Faye Coffman had everything to look forward to.

You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.
A 20-year-old man, who should have had a lifetime ahead of him, didn't get to enjoy it. The man had a job with a steel fabricating company and a few months' experience driving a forklift
A 47-year-old logger was working to set the chokers in a cable logging operation.
In an attempt to dislodge some wood on a conveyor belt, a manager at a wood products plant in Maine walked out onto an I-beam.
A 59-year old worker was clearing snow from a rail station walkway when he was struck and killed by an approaching freight train.
The 12-year-old victim was the farmer's nephew. He'd been helping bale hay on his uncle's 700-acre farm.
A simple broken weld seam caused the death of a 68-year-old man, when an anhydrous ammonia tank ruptured.

A 61-year-old woodworker was killed as he was trying to replace a glue tray in a glue-press machine while it was still operating.
Deputy Sheriff Tony was quite certain that the downed power line hanging only a few inches above the road was a ground wire that was safe to move by hand. He couldn't have been more wrong.
A foundry laborer was electrocuted as he was helping to feed stainless steel scrap into a furnace refractory.
A machine operator at a textile plant died of asphyxia when his torso was compressed in an automated circular knitting machine.
A construction worker died when a 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) steel pile (column) struck him.
A 28-year-old father of three was killed while driving a concrete pumper truck.
A 22-year-old roofer fell approximately 22 feet (6.7 meters) off the edge of a roof onto concrete and died.

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An experienced worker was laying concrete on the second level of a construction project when the face shield from a welder's mask fell from an upper level. The construction worker agreed to cross the wet

A 35-year-old man was found several hours after he died inside a barn he had been cleaning. He had been using a pressure washer with an 11-horsepower gasoline engine.
A professional miner, working alone, was struck and pinned down by falling rock. The miner was scaling - knocking down loose overhead rock. He was working under an unsafe, unbolted rock ceiling, contrary to safe
A crew was logging a right-of-way prior to road construction. A faller was preparing to cut down a tree. He signaled to another worker, waving with his yellow hardhat to indicate the direction in which
A worker was feeding coal from a bunker into a rail car at a steam plant. The coal jammed in the bottom of the bunker. The worker then entered the rail car and used a
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed. They were laying sewer pipe in a trench four feet (1.22 meters) wide at the bottom and 15 feet (4.57 meters) wide
Two workers were installing shutters on the windows of a building. One was about six feet (two meters) above the ground on a scaffold.
A worker stepped onto a suspended ceiling. It broke under his weight and he fell through. He landed on a concrete floor 42 feet below and died of blood loss and multiple injuries. A more
A welder with 20 years’ experience as an iron worker died after he and his metal cage fell from a high-rise building where he and a co-worker were welding tube girts. Each welder was supported