Trucker Left to Die in Parking Lot
David Lindsey, 53, of Knoxville, KY, was dicovered lying in a Walgreens parking lot at about 3 a.m.
David Lindsey, 53, of Knoxville, KY, was dicovered lying in a Walgreens parking lot at about 3 a.m.
A flat tire, a car crash, a dead battery, a [...]
One week after he answered a "help wanted" sign in a pizza shop window, a young man died of injuries from a motor vehicle crash. He was making a delivery near the pizza place, which
An experienced custodian died from multiple blunt-force injuries while trying to stop a rolling pickup truck.
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A volunteer firefighter was fatally injured after being thrown from a water tanker during a rollover. The victim was traveling to a wildland fire on an unpaved road within a national forest. The tanker went
A 31-year-old explosives manufacturing service representative was killed when his truck crossed the center line into oncoming traffic.
An experienced logging truck driver, known to have a hearing disability, was waiting for his truck to be loaded. He had been requested to get out of his truck during the loading operation because of
A tractor loader was traveling over a log bridge across a canyon when the bridge collapsed under its weight. When the loader fell part way down into the rocky canyon, the operator was thrown off
The owner-operator of a heavy equipment maintenance business died because he undid the wrong bolts while trying to remove a tire.
Two plumbers had been working in a construction trench. When it was time to come back up to the street level, they rode in the bucket of an excavator. As the excavator operator started to
The following is a real-life example of what went wrong and what corrective measures resulted from an incident in the oil and gas industry.
Two workers had finished doing right-of-way cleanup with an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and a small set of diamond harrows.
A millworker died when the bulldozer he was driving rolled down an embankment. A lightning strike had caused a fire in the sawmill area. The fire department brought the fire under control and left the
A migrant farm worker died after the tractor he was driving overturned on a country road. The victim, who had no experience driving on public roads, was pulling a load of tobacco when the wagon jack-knifed and broke loose from the tractor.
A 39-year-old father of five was killed when he was run over by a dump truck.
A worker was operating a bulldozer at the top edge of a sloped excavation. The trench was being developed for a drainage ditch six feet (1.8 meters) deep. The surface was covered with snow and
Could This Have Been You? An equipment operator for an engineering firm was operating a backhoe without wearing a hard hat or seat belt.
Thousands of people have died in accidents involving all terrain vehicles (ATV's).
A forklift was travelling empty with its forks elevated ? creating a high center of gravity. When it went around a corner too fast, the forklift tipped. The driver was thrown out and crushed to
Could This Have Been You? A machine operator was killed when he lost control of the asphalt roller he was operating.

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