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Electrical Hazards Aren’t Always Overhead
Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects.
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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.
The owner-operator of a heavy equipment maintenance business died because he undid the wrong bolts while trying to remove a tire.
A 29-year-old female cement finisher fell 165 feet (50 meters) to her death from a high-rise office complex under construction.
A flat tire, a car crash, a dead battery, a [...]
A worker fell through an insecure opening on a roof during a construction project. A fire-damaged warehouse was being re-insulated and rebuilt. A hole which had been cut in the roof by the fire department
A manager in a paper plant was draining a tank filled with wood pulp treated with chlorine dioxide, a corrosive material. During the process, some of the chlorine dioxide spilled. He tripped and fell into
A vehicle spotter who was controlling the movements of trucks in and out of the dumping bays at a landfill site was struck and killed by a runaway truck. He had directed a truck into
A worker knowingly walked into a dangerous area and was hit by a heavy object as it fell. He was working at a plant which dismantles large machinery. Metal was cut with torches and large
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
A night shift worker was working with his supervisor in an adhesive tape manufacturing plant. They had been monitoring a machine that applied a coat of adhesive to the tape, and were collecting samples, taking
Poor supervision and poor planning were to blame for a fatality that occurred when a trench caved in and crushed an electrician. He was part of a crew working on construction of a shopping center.
Painters were painting a new warehouse. To paint the roof supports, a scaffold was needed. The crew borrowed a scaffold located in the warehouse. They dismantled the borrowed scaffold, moved it to where they were
A broken crawling board sent two workers to the ground, where one died and the other received multiple injuries. The two workers were painting a barn roof. They were using a crawling board, also known
A young man was working on a building renovation project. He was inexperienced, and was working part-time for a sub-contractor. Despite repeated warnings not to do so, he had been in the habit of climbing
A truck-trailer unit pulling a second small tanker trailer rolled over and collided with a parked transit bus ? causing a fire and explosion. The truck driver was killed. The rig was carrying gasoline. The