Painter Falls From Stepladder
A job of repainting an outdoor stairway at a commuter train station was the end of the line for a 45-year old man. He fell from a stepladder while painting the concrete and metal stairway

A job of repainting an outdoor stairway at a commuter train station was the end of the line for a 45-year old man. He fell from a stepladder while painting the concrete and metal stairway
A 22-year-old worker died after jumping 16 feet (five meters) from an elevated pallet on a forklift that was tipping over.
Building inspectors may know all about whether structures are being built according to code, but a case in Toronto
An assistant mountaineering guide died when he fell from a mountain ridge.

A plant worker climbed eight feet up a steel storage rack structure to retrieve material from a top shelf. He fell to the concrete floor and died. The workplace did not have the proper equipment

A worker cleaning the third floor of a warehouse received massive head and chest injuries after falling more than 22 feet (seven meters) to the concrete floor below. No one witnessed the accident so it
A worker hailed as a hero in a 2001 steel plant explosion in Wales died from severe burns after falling into molten waste at the same plant five years later.
Workers operating aerial lift trucks need to pay attention to unusual noises, uncharacteristic vibrations, or abnormal operation when controls are activated.
A window mechanic died from generalized trauma when he fell through a window he was trying to replace on the 21st floor of an office building.
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
A man working in an electronics store warehouse fell six feet (two meters) to his death as he attempted to retrieve boxes from a forklift. The man was standing on a wooden pallet raised by
Two construction companies have been hit with big fines for the death of a laborer who fell through an inadequate guardrail in 2003.
Alberta judges often impose creative occupational health and safety fines that benefit charitable organizations.
A 49-year-old construction worker was killed as a result of a fall from a roof.
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
A worker died of a broken neck and skull after he fell 23 feet from a scaffold. He was working part-time as a welder-fitter. He did not have experience in working from a scaffold.
A 31-year-old spray painter walked off the edge of a roof. He and co-workers were painting a condominium which has multiple roof levels.
Menes Daniel, Torivio Acevedo and Endy Guirand were killed when a concrete form collapsed.

A fall from 25 feet (7.5 meters) killed a construction worker.
A 40-year-old corrections officer died of injuries received when he [...]
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
Two employees were painting the outside of a three-story building. They were standing on a two-point suspension scaffold. The outriggers for the scaffold were inadequately counterweighted with three five-gallon (18.93-liter) buckets of sand. They were
On June 8, 2005, two window washers were working on a fourstorey building in Burlington, Massachusetts.
A 21-year-old assistant mountaineering guide fell to his death on Denali (Mount McKinley) while attempting to rescue another climber from falling.
A 21-year-old construction worker was killed when a Bobcat loader, operating on loose soil, rolled backwards over a 70-foot (21-meter) cliff into a rocky ravine.