Overhead Hazards Fatality Report
INCIDENT A comparison in real time between a Near-Miss/Close Call [...]
Overhead and Gantry Crane Safety
Key Takeaways: - Learning about the safety devices that should [...]
Overhead and Gantry Crane Safety – Spanish
Key Takeaways: - Learning about the safety devices that should [...]
Rigging For a Safe Lift – Spanish
If you work around cranes, slings and rigging, it is your responsibility to be familiar with the tools and equipment and how to use them safely.
Crane Safety – Spanish
Few experiences may be as frightening as when a crane becomes unbalanced while a load is being lifted or when the crane collapses under the weight of an excessive load. An unbalanced load or crane collapse can cause death to the operator, other construction workers, can cause damage to property or equipment.
Picture This: Concrete Pumping Truck Dangers
How close is too close when it comes to power lines?
Look Up for Overhead Dangers GalleryLook Up for Overhead Dangers
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Look Up for Overhead Dangers
Some of the worst hazards in any work area are the ones you don’t see - because they’re above you. What’s at stake is your life, and there are two basic ways you could lose it: electrocution or falling objects.
Utilities: Safely Installing and Removing Overhead Power Lines
When you install or remove overhead lines, you must protect yourself and others against hazards that could expose you to shock, electrocution, falls, flying and falling objects, and burns.
Crane Safety – Safety Talk
Few experiences may be as frightening as when a crane becomes unbalanced while a load is being lifted or when the crane collapses under the weight of an excessive load. An unbalanced load or crane collapse can cause death to the operator, other construction workers, can cause damage to property or equipment.
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Crane Collapse in Florida Sends Workers Running for Their Lives: Near Miss Could Have Had Catastrophic Consequences
A crane collapse at the site of a new police [...]
Picture This! Give It Up For Crazy Legs and His Dueling Ladders
Gymnastics should be considered one of the skills of safe ladder use. This worker is shown straddling two ladders, with one foot on each. This looks like a recipe for a nasty or even fatal fall.
Picture This! Heavy Metal Versus Flesh and Bone
This photograph illustrates a hazard seen time and time again in the workplace--workers standing under suspended loads. Yes, that's danger tape in front of the workers, warning people to stay away from the area. It appears that these workers didn't get the memo.
Rigging For a Safe Lift
If you work around cranes, slings and rigging, it is your responsibility to be familiar with the tools and equipment and how to use them safely.
Stay Away from Fallen Power Lines
Fallen power lines are not preventable during winter storms, but you should avoid them for your own safety.
Steel Walkway Contacts 14,400 Volts
A worker attaching wire rope slings to a walkway was electrocuted when a crane operator swung the main boom of the crane over a walkway. The 56 foot steel walkway was to be used for
Engineer Electrocuted With 550 Volts
A worker assigned to make repairs near an overhead hoist was cautioned to "be careful." There were high voltage warning signs nearby. He was not told that the power supply to the overhead hoist was
Normally Safety Conscious Worker Electrocuted
He was always safety conscious and careful, according to his former boss.
Operator Killed as Boom Touches Power Line
A company was contracted to dig post holes for a fencing project which was located adjacent to overhead power lines. A hydraulic auger with a 30-foot boom was being operated from a flatbed truck. On
Three-Ton Machine Falls on Worker
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
Builder Fined After Worker Electrocuted
A home builder in Winnipeg, MB, has been fined $30,000 after a worker was electrocuted when the boom of the crane he was operating touched overhead wires.
Recycling Worker Electrocuted
A man working in the recycling business was electrocuted when he was helping move some scrap metal stored beneath a power line.
Engine Hood Crushes Worker
A maintenance worker was repairing a piece of heavy construction equipment when he was crushed to death by the engine hood. He had driven to the construction site after hours with an assistant who went
Electrical Hazards Aren’t Always Overhead
Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects.
Cable Touches High Power Line
A worker died of electrocution when a cable hanging from a crane touched a high voltage power line. He was helping to unload concrete pilings from a flatbed truck, and was guiding the pilings as
Paper Worker Pulled Into Press
Workers tending a paper manufacturing machine had to enter an narrow overhead platform above a moving press roller. One day a worker was on this 14-inch (.35-meter) wide platform structure. He was using a compressed
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