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Prince Edward Island occupational health and safety inspectors are trying to determine how a tree harvester with no one at the controls started up and killed a worker who became caught in its jaws.
Lightning that traveled down an abandoned pump cable triggered a methane blast that killed 12 West Virginia miners in January 2006
At age 17, Timothy had no plans of dying. But fate forced a change in those plans one day.
Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects.
The 50-year-old victim was part owner of a motocross track that operated out of a sand pit in New Jersey.
A tow truck driver was killed while trying to stop his runaway truck.
A 26-year-old mechanic was struck and killed by a side ring from a multi-piece (split) tire rim.
A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
A 44-year-old transportation worker died after being jolted with 7,200 volts of electricity while repaving a highway in Colorado.
The 45-year-old worker was operating the crusher for a construction company, which subcontracted to the US government to produce gravel for forest roads.
The moral of this fatality is: Never work beneath a suspended load.
An assistant ice rink manager suffocated from lack of oxygen when he tried to stop a refrigeration system gas leak.
An irrigation district canal worker drowned after falling into a standpipe while trying to shut off the water flow.
A crane oiler was crushed between counterweights and the superstructure (base) of a rotating mobile crane.
The owner-operator of a heavy equipment maintenance business died because he undid the wrong bolts while trying to remove a tire.
A 29-year-old female cement finisher fell 165 feet (50 meters) to her death from a high-rise office complex under construction.
A journeyman ironworker fell through a roof and died of a brain injury. He and a co-worker were working on the roof of a building being dismantled. They were in the process of removing large
An industrial water meter reader was reported missing when he failed to return to headquarters at the end of his shift. Meanwhile, a passerby saw him lying face-down in a few inches of water at
A mill worker fell to his death when an unfinished overhead walkway fell apart. The catwalk was constructed at a sawmill so maintenance workers could reach machinery for oiling. The person building the catwalk was
A natural gas company service man was contacted early one winter morning to investigate a gas leak. A bridge crew had noticed a strong odor of gas and a hissing sound at a natural gas
Two workers died of oxygen deprivation as they were repairing the concrete wall at a garbage disposal site. One of them had been attaching anchor bolts to the wall of an intake pit and was
A young laborer was seated on a looped chain as he was being lowered into a 21-foot (6.4-meter) deep manhole to prepare for utility construction work.
A crew was building a chain-link fence in a residential area. One worker lifted a 21-foot (seven-meter) section of the metal top rail into the air and the rail contacted a 7,200-volt power line. He
Two drilling crew members were electrocuted when the boom of their drill rig contacted a high-voltage overhead power line. The victims were employed by a company hired to find and blast large rocks that lay
Just as construction can be dangerous work, so can taking structures down. This proved to be the case for a crew repairing a signboard located high up the side of a building. They had completed
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