Some of the worst safety hazards are the most difficult to detect. Use your safety training and stay alert to dodge dangers.
A logger suffering from lack of sleep reported for work. He was supposed to be keeping a safety watch for another faller who was cutting down trees, but took a nap instead. A co-worker had
A 25-year-old man got a job as a laborer, installing carpets in newly-built homes for a small company after a tornado had devastated a small farming community.
The former manager of Atlantic States Cast Iron Pipe Co. [...]
A 34-year-old male truck driver was killed when he was hit by a load of laminated veneer beams falling from a forklift.
A 59-year old worker was clearing snow from a rail station walkway when he was struck and killed by an approaching freight train.
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
A 23-year-old mill worker received a compound fracture to his foot when he tried to clear a conveyor jam.
While shingling a house, a 46-year-old roofer fell more than 20 feet (six meters) to his death.
Two workers were suffocated by gas from a fire extinguishing system they were repairing on a ship. They were working on the cylinders containing carbon dioxide. Suddenly three of the cylinders discharged, filling the room
Four-year-old Tylerann Zadroga lost her mother in 2004 and now her father is dead at age 34.
If you're tasked with shoveling snow off a roof this winter, take a lesson from this fatality, in which an employee fell through a snow-covered skylight.
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
Every single day about 1,000 people injure an eye on the job. Some of these injuries are called "minor", but even a minor eye injury results in lost work time, pain, and sometimes lasting damage.
The owner of a lumber company was struck and fatally injured by a falling tree just minutes after arriving at work.
Two boys were visiting a farm. One was a relative of the farmer and the other was a friend. For some reason, they climbed to the top of a silo which was used for storage
I'm off to work now, Dad, Alicia* called as she raced for the front door. Don't wait up for me.
A construction worker was killed when he fell 14 feet (about four meters) from a roof while installing metal roofing materials.
Late in the afternoon, a worker at a manufacturing company was requested to clean out a vat. It was approximately 5 feet deep and 5 feet in diameter. He was instructed to use
A former company president convicted in connection with the deaths of two workers has been sentenced to seven years' probation. Brent Weidman, who was convicted of charges of negligent homicide and reckless endangerment, must also perform 840 hours of community service.
An equipment operator, a long-time employee of a municipality, was crushed between trucks at the service bay.
Two workers died of oxygen deprivation as they were repairing the concrete wall at a garbage disposal site. One of them had been attaching anchor bolts to the wall of an intake pit and was
Using a gasoline-powered pressure washer in a poorly ventilated area below deck in a fishing boat has killed one dock worker and injured several others, including emergency personnel.
An employee of a natural gas well service company was knocked unconscious by hydrogen sulfide gas. He fell into a water tank and drowned. He had been trying to get a sample of the liquid
Many people in the safety business don't like the word accident, because it suggests nothing could have been done to prevent the situation.
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