Vehicles Fall From Jacks
Would you trust your life to a hydraulic jack? You shouldn’t. Workers have been killed by vehicles and other heavy objects falling off jacks and improperly-placed jack stands. In one such fatality, a mechanic was
Would you trust your life to a hydraulic jack? You shouldn’t. Workers have been killed by vehicles and other heavy objects falling off jacks and improperly-placed jack stands. In one such fatality, a mechanic was

David S. Ganoe Jr. , a school maintenance supervisor, was gunned down in his office in Caroline, VA. Police report that Thomas E. Monroe, 66, a former maintenance employee, was charged with murder of the 51-year-old.
A makeshift attempt to free a jammed conveyor cost a millwright his life. He got a grip on the conveyor drive shaft with a long pipe wrench, then straddled the pipe wrench handle and bounced
David Lindsey, 53, of Knoxville, KY, was dicovered lying in a Walgreens parking lot at about 3 a.m.
A railway maintenance worker was working on a train trestle. He was standing on a plywood platform and was involved in tightening a bolt on the trestle when his wrench became stuck. He heaved on

A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
With 70-foot (21-meter) tall trees being felled on a lot that was only 100 feet (30 meters) square, workers didn't have a lot of room to get out of the way of falling trees. And one didn't.
A 49-year-old Texaco Food Mart cashier was shot to death during a robbery.
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