A combination of poor training and an oxygen-deficient atmosphere killed four people at the decommissioned Sullivan lead/zinc mine in southeastern British Columbia in May. The dead included two paramedics responding to a call for help.
When a construction foreman was found dead in water at the bottom of a manhole, his workers followed him into the confined space and risked death themselves. The fatality occurred when his crew was installing
Lightning that traveled down an abandoned pump cable triggered a methane blast that killed 12 West Virginia miners in January 2006
A young laborer was seated on a looped chain as he was being lowered into a 21-foot (6.4-meter) deep manhole to prepare for utility construction work.
The dangers of trying to rescue others from a deadly atmosphere can't be emphasized enough.
A man working in a steel plant was removing steel slag from the bottom of an upright ladle. He was using a jack hammer, a pry bar and a cutting torch fueled by acetylene and oxygen.
Two workers died trying to fix a wastewater valve housed in a manhole.
A makeshift switch on a sandblasting unit apparently set off an explosion of gasoline vapors killing a worker who was cleaning a petroleum storage tank. The victim had recently been promoted to foreman. His first
Two men working for a municipality subcontractor died of burns received while installing a valve in a concrete sewage channel.
An experienced process industry worker entered a nitrogen tank and was overcome by lack of oxygen. He died before he could be rescued. He disobeyed safety regulations. He entered a confined space with a hazardous
Your five senses are of little use in alerting you to respiratory hazards. You usually can't see, feel or hear them, and they often have no smell or taste
AThree experienced welders were killed recently in separate incidents while using torches to work on containers they believed were empty. In the first, a mechanic supervisor was using a torch to cut a 55-gallon metal
An experienced worker and his untrained helper lowered an aluminum ladder into an underground fuel storage tank. A small access hatch had been cut into the tank using a water cooled saw. One of the
An industrial water meter reader was reported missing when he failed to return to headquarters at the end of his shift. Meanwhile, a passerby saw him lying face-down in a few inches of water at
An environmental officer doing routine testing noticed the smell of gasoline coming from an underground sewage pumping station. Two days later an inspection was done, including a check of the nearby service station, but nothing
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
Two workers died after a welding spark set off an explosion in a tanker truck. They were starting to replace an overflow pipe on the truck when the spark ignited flammable gas in the tank.
A natural gas company service man was contacted early one winter morning to investigate a gas leak. A bridge crew had noticed a strong odor of gas and a hissing sound at a natural gas
Could This Have Been You? A rig manager was picking up two nitrogen bottles and two 10 gallon accumulator bottles from a third party distributor.
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
Two paramedics responding to an emergency call at a decommissioned mine in British Columbia were among four people who died there.
A young student engineer had just started a new job on a dam construction project. Another employee was given the task of showing him around the dam site. He took the engineer to a drain
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.
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This is a great demonstration of how you shouldn't store hazardous materials. Can you spot the OSHA violation?
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