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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
A worker attaching wire rope slings to a walkway was electrocuted when a crane operator swung the main boom of the crane over a walkway. The 56 foot steel walkway was to be used for
A construction laborer was helping install a fire hydrant pipe, six inches in diameter and 12 feet long. The hydrant was being lowered by a chain attached to the backhoe bucket and two workers were
Five workers were standing on a scaffold nine stories off the ground as they were plastering the exterior of a high rise apartment building. The scaffold collapsed, sending three of them to their deaths.
A marina employee drowned after he fell into the water at a boat launching slip.
A painting contractor's crew was sandblasting and painting the inside of a riser under a water tower. One worker was spray-painting from a fixed ladder 40 feet (12 meters) above the floor of the riser.
A painter died of extensive burn injuries after an explosion inside a tank he was painting. A co-worker was also injured but recovered. Both were working for a sheet metal fabrication firm. They were assigned
A forklift operator's helper was crushed by a falling stack of wood sheeting. The incident occurred when the driver, using the forklift to reposition the load of wood, struck the pile of sheeting and knocked
Would you trust your life to a hydraulic jack? You shouldn’t. Workers have been killed by vehicles and other heavy objects falling off jacks and improperly-placed jack stands. In one such fatality, a mechanic was
An apprentice electrician was killed by contact with 525 volts while he was installing a switchgear for a large piece of machinery in a manufacturing plant. The victim was running a ground wire when he
A worker on a portable sawmill was killed when he was hit in the head by an unguarded drive shaft that had been displaced by the impact of heavy equipment working in the area. A
A punch press operator was killed when he was struck in the head by a hand crank tool. The fatality occurred in a plant that manufactures lenses and other parts for developing photographic film.
A maintenance worker was crossing a yard on his way to a welding shop. He took a shortcut, walking behind a forklift that was on a ramp. The forklift operator had stopped to check his
A warehouse order selector died after jumping 16 feet (about five meters) from an elevated pallet on a forklift when the forklift began to overturn. The victim wore a safety belt and lanyard connected to
At a coastal logging operation, a small boat was used to straighten a cable before it was respooled on a floating work deck.
A worker was fatally injured while grinding on the lid of a metal toolbox. The sparks from his grinder ignited an explosive mixture of oxygen and acetylene which had leaked from a torch placed inside
A warehouseman at a store was assigned the job of taking the garbage from the store and putting it into a shredder - compactor. After loading the boxes into the shredder he jumped on top
A construction crew was preparing to pour concrete into forms. A laborer climbed a ladder on one side of a form and stepped over the form to stand on an unguarded scaffold on the opposite side.
A loader operator was pulling a conveyer to a new job site. He had been operating a loader on mining leases for approximately five months and was described as being "quite careful" in his driving.
Could This Have Been You? A shooter and his helper were detonating 2.5 lb charges loaded at a depth of 20 feet.
An experienced mechanic/welder was crushed to death by a door on a metal shredder at a large scrap iron facility. The hydraulically-operated door flips down to reject unshredded metals.
A 54-year-old construction laborer died after a motor grader rolled over his upper back and head. The man, who was one of a crew of nine workers, was helping to install a new road in
Could This Have Been You? A delivery truck driver died after being crushed by his own vehicle.
A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
One pipelayer was crushed to death and another injured when a trench collapsed.
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