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If you think fatal falls happen only to construction workers swinging off skyscrapers, consider the following incident: A maintenance worker died after a fall from an elevation of just eight feet (2.5 meters).
Running a gasoline-powered engine in a confined space can have fatal consequences, as an incident at a home construction site clearly shows. Two carpenters entered a basement where a gasoline-powered generator was operating and both
Could This Have Been You? An apprentice ironworker was killed when she fell through an unprotected vent shaft.
At 36, Eder Morales was in the prime of his life. We don't know much about Morales, except that he died young. Too young.
It was a blustery, rainy morning when Craig drove into the nursery parking lot. But the rain didn't dampen his spirits. He was just happy he'd landed a job - and a good one at that.
Although workplace shooting rampages are rarely carried out by women, a terrifying exception occurred a few weeks ago in California.
An Ontario supervisor must pay a $6,000 fine after pleading guilty to a charge of failing to take all necessary precautions to protect a worker.
Fatigue can leave workers in a fog - which isn't a good atmosphere for clear, safe decision-making. The crash of a 747 cargo jet at Halifax International Airport in mid-October 2004 is being blamed in part on flight crew fatigue.
An Ontario company has been hit with a $100,000 fine for failing to lock out a machine that killed a worker in 2004.
If employees are at risk for falling considerable distances, they had better be trained in recognizing fall hazards and be using fall protection.
A roof repair job turned fatal for an 18-year-old Toronto worker, who fell 14 floors to his death.
Prince Edward Island occupational health and safety inspectors are trying to determine how a tree harvester with no one at the controls started up and killed a worker who became caught in its jaws.
Lightning that traveled down an abandoned pump cable triggered a methane blast that killed 12 West Virginia miners in January 2006
At age 17, Timothy had no plans of dying. But fate forced a change in those plans one day.
Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects.
The 50-year-old victim was part owner of a motocross track that operated out of a sand pit in New Jersey.
A tow truck driver was killed while trying to stop his runaway truck.
A 26-year-old mechanic was struck and killed by a side ring from a multi-piece (split) tire rim.
A security guard working at a FedEx Ground distribution center near Washington, DC, was found shot dead.
A 44-year-old transportation worker died after being jolted with 7,200 volts of electricity while repaving a highway in Colorado.
The 45-year-old worker was operating the crusher for a construction company, which subcontracted to the US government to produce gravel for forest roads.
The moral of this fatality is: Never work beneath a suspended load.
An assistant ice rink manager suffocated from lack of oxygen when he tried to stop a refrigeration system gas leak.
An irrigation district canal worker drowned after falling into a standpipe while trying to shut off the water flow.
A crane oiler was crushed between counterweights and the superstructure (base) of a rotating mobile crane.
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