Basement Blaze Claims Career Fireman
You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.

You may be considered a veteran in your workplace, but veterans are not invincible.

Dale Scott was in the mechanic's shop alone fixing a leaky left rear tire on a front-end loader.
A Wyoming man died in an oil rig incident near the Converse-Natrona county line.
The victim was a foreman of a crew working at a Wyoming rig site.

A narcotics officer who died of cancer believed that exposure to the toxic products, solvents, and volatiles of the meth labs and drug factories he busted contributed to his death.
On a November night, a crab fishing boat was off British Columbia?s north coast. The crew members were re-baiting a crab pot on deck when the vessel took a port turn.
A Canadian coroner is warning people about the overuse of cotton swabs after a Montreal man died following an ear infection last year.
A forklift operator at a pallet-manufacturing company was fatally injured when he was crushed under a fallen forklift.

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A vehicle spotter who was controlling the movements of trucks in and out of the dumping bays at a landfill site was struck and killed by a runaway truck. He had directed a truck into
Two commercial divers drowned when they became trapped by a water leak on a seaway lock. The first diver went down to inspect a malfunctioning underwater valve. He became trapped because water leaking to the
Poor supervision and poor planning were to blame for a fatality that occurred when a trench caved in and crushed an electrician. He was part of a crew working on construction of a shopping center.
A marina employee drowned after he fell into the water at a boat launching slip.
A painter died of burns suffered in an explosion which occurred when he was working inside a newly-constructed large steel tank. A co-worker outside the tank survived with burns and a broken arm. The first
The boom of a log loader dropped suddenly and killed a logging truck driver as he was helping load a pulp truck. He had climbed up an access ladder to the loader cab to hand
A food production worker employed at a pizza dough manufacturing plant was killed when he was struck in the neck by the steel blade on a dough machine. The victim and a co-worker were assigned
A dockworker was crushed by a falling stack of fiberboard. It was part of the cargo that had come from a freight ship and was being moved by forklift to a warehouse.
A longshoreman, working on loading a freighter, was near the end of his shift just before 1 a.m. He was walking from the ship toward the exit gate.
A teen pulling weeds to earn pocket money died when an improperly stored piece of hoisting equipment fell and crushed his skull. The boy, just 14-years-old, was working with his father at an automobile repossession
A landscaper who did not speak English was crushed to death as he and a co-worker attempted to unload a backhoe for a day’s work. The man, an undocumented immigrant, spoke only Spanish and may
A construction supervisor was decapitated when he was struck by a boom from a crane. He was handling the tagline on a crane-connected load which was being lowered into a subway construction area. The crane
A school custodian who was working alone survived a fall from a ladder only to die from a blood clot a few days later.
Could This Have Been You? A delivery truck driver died after being crushed by his own vehicle.

A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
An Illinois family suffering the loss of a father in a highway construction crash has issued a plea for drivers to slow down.