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Workers all have their areas of expertise and they develop impressive skills through years of experience. But being an expert machine operator doesn’t necessarily mean one is able to perform critical maintenance or repairs on that machinery.
A chemical company hired a geo-technical engineer to determine if a 20-foot dike could be built across a soda ash waste bed. The engineer's report concluded that by following specific measurements and instructions it could
Three oil field workers died after breathing carbon monoxide (CO) gas in an oil well cellar in California.
A contractor inspecting the seals inside a large gasoline storage tank did not make it out alive. He was overcome by the toxic vapors in the tank and unable to escape or call for help.
A 37-year-old welder died when an explosion occurred in the tanker trailer where he was working.
A sewer worker was killed by poisonous gas 45 minutes after explosives were set off underground 50 feet (15.24 meters) away. The fatality occurred on a city utility construction site. A crew working for one
A man working on an oil rig in western North Dakota was crushed by a tank and killed.
A company was contracted to dig post holes for a fencing project which was located adjacent to overhead power lines. A hydraulic auger with a 30-foot boom was being operated from a flatbed truck. On
Two British Columbia workers and two paramedics who tried to help them all died very quickly from a lack of oxygen, according to coroner Bruce Chamberlayne. But the reason why a formerly safe area would turn deadly hasn't been stated.
An experienced electrical engineer was electrocuted while removing dust from equipment in the main electrical distribution room of a hotel. The man was employed by a maintenance company inspecting and improving the hotel's heating and
An Alberta painting contractor is paying the price after a worker fell from a scaffold that rolled from under him while he was trying to staple a tarp onto a wall.
Employees working for a plumbing contractor were hoisting pipes up from ground level to higher levels for storage. They were standing on structural steel while they transferred the pipes to the floor above. One employee
Wanting to hype his audience up in advance of an acrobatic performance, circus ringmaster Jesus Vasquez
A sheet metal mechanic died after he was knocked through a roof opening and fell to a concrete floor below. He was working for a plumbing and heating contractor that had been in business for
Two New York contractors have both been sentenced to six-month jail terms in connection with the death of a worker
A young man was working on a building renovation project. He was inexperienced, and was working part-time for a sub-contractor. Despite repeated warnings not to do so, he had been in the habit of climbing
A 25-year-old man got a job as a laborer, installing carpets in newly-built homes for a small company after a tornado had devastated a small farming community.
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 maintenance mechanic died when he was crushed between an overhead bridge - crane and a light fixture.
A building contractor died when he was trapped in the burning basement of a house under construction. Another worker was using an oxyacetylene cutting torch to cut I-beams over the basement of the house. Stray
Menes Daniel, Torivio Acevedo and Endy Guirand were killed when a concrete form collapsed.
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