A machinist was finishing a piece of stainless steel on a lathe. The metal shavings peeled off the rotating lathe in one large wire strand and wrapped around his neck, causing partial decapitation. Investigation of
An employee at a mine was found strangled to death. The scarf he was wearing around his neck had become twisted around the rotating drill. To prevent such a tragedy from recurring, remember these safe
Could This Have Been You? An equipment operator for an engineering firm was operating a backhoe without wearing a hard hat or seat belt.
A lumberyard worker was fatally struck by a 1,200-pound (543.6 kilogram) metal commercial garage door.
Dale Scott was in the mechanic's shop alone fixing a leaky left rear tire on a front-end loader.
A 61-year-old woodworker was killed as he was trying to replace a glue tray in a glue-press machine while it was still operating.
A city maintenance worker who was trying to dislodge material from a street sweeper's suction hose was killed after accidentally placing his foot on a lever that raises and lowers the machine's hopper.
A worker, who had recently been given the responsibility of safety inspector for the gravel pit where he worked, was killed when he was crushed in a piece of moving machinery. He was trying to
A construction elevator at an office building under construction began speeding upwards uncontrollably. It struck the top of the hoistway at about 65 miles an hour. Two of the occupants were killed and three others
Could This Have Been You? A machine operator was killed when he lost control of the asphalt roller he was operating.
A 1,200-pound (543.6 kilogram) gate fell on a worker, trapping him between his pickup truck and the gate and asphyxiating him.
A 20-year-old man was working by himself changing a press punch at a small machine shop when a welded hydraulic hose coupling blew, killing him instantly.
On May 5, 2005, a 55-year-old maintenance mechanic was killed while inspecting a lifting machine at a masonry production plant.
A maintenance mechanic suffocated when his chest was squeezed between the rear of a vacuum cooler tube and the tube's door.
A large piece of equipment was being installed in a new paper mill. Two workers were making the final adjustments to a three-ton (2.72-tonne) machine suspended overhead by four threaded rods. They were supporting one
A fisherman was working alone on his boat when he became entangled in a net which was being wrapped around a revolving drum. A hydraulic pump used to turn the drum was designed to be
Could This Have Been You? A 35-year-old paving crew worker was killed when caught between a trailer and a piece of equipment.
Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) investigators are trying to determine how a robotic arm pulled a manager into a press while it was being cleaned. Steven McGirr, 46, died instantly.
A 45-year-old farmer was working with two neighbors who had come to help him load corn into a wagon to feed cattle.
Always follow your company's lockout and tagout procedures. Just shutting off the power is not enough.
A 32-year-old laborer for a boring and tunneling company died when he was struck with a hydraulic hose.
Getting caught between two diesel-operated ditching machines caused fatal injuries at a construction equipment salvage business. The victim was working alone in the scrap yard he owned. He was using a mobile ditch-drilling machine to
A crew was digging a small tunnel under a driveway using a horizontal boring machine in preparation for installing an underground telephone cable. The rod had been removed from the hole. While it was still
A 17-year old worker died just one hour into his new job after becoming pinned under a forklift. He hadn't received any job orientation or training.
The owners of a bottle depot recycling business and the company supervisor said they had no knowledge that a safety switch on a cardboard baler had been bypassed.
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