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Garage Door Kills
A lumberyard worker was fatally struck by a 1,200-pound (543.6 kilogram) metal commercial garage door.
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A lumberyard worker was fatally struck by a 1,200-pound (543.6 kilogram) metal commercial garage door.

A former fire crew boss has been charged with manslaughter and lying to investigators five years after four forestry firefighters perished in a wildfire in Washington State. Ellreese N. Daniels faces four counts of involuntary manslaughter and seven counts of making false statements to people who were investigating the fatal fire.
A service worker for a security alarm system company died after a 35 foot (10.6 meter) fall.
Operating a provincially-run cable ferry in Nova Scotia was only part of Donald LeBlanc's job.

Safety training is critical for any job and if you don't provide it and a worker becomes injured or dies as a result, you and your company could face a legal nightmare.
Ontario Ministry of Labour investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fatality at a metal products plant in Windsor, ON.
A 45-year-old farmer was working with two neighbors who had come to help him load corn into a wagon to feed cattle.
A crew was installing flagging material in the sand line with the rig engine running.

The victim, a 22-year-old male firefighter recruit collapsed while running at the end of a training day.
A worker needs to use a piece of machinery. He is unaware that the device is not operating properly and is being worked on at that moment by maintenance employees he cannot see.
The manager of a farm supply store suffocated in a bin full of corn while attempting to dislodge stuck kernels.

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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An overhead crane operator died when a bale of steel slipped off the C-hook and hit him. He had positioned the bale incorrectly on the C-hook, so it was not balanced and centered. Ordinarily he
Argon gas accumulated in the bottom of a large tank killed two workers assigned to clean the tank. The atmosphere in the tank had been tested before they entered it, but the testing was done
A heavy equipment operator was killed in an explosion when he hit a natural gas pipeline with a piece of heavy machinery. Four other workers were severely burned. The operator was digging a drainage trench
Two workers were suffocated by gas from a fire extinguishing system they were repairing on a ship. They were working on the cylinders containing carbon dioxide. Suddenly three of the cylinders discharged, filling the room
A crew was engaged in cleaning a vessel in a plant. After the lunch break, one of the workers returned early to continue with his cleaning. A co-worker saw him climb the outside scaffold from