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Five feet of slack meant the difference between life and death for a California warehouse worker. The man was working at a salt processing plant, cleaning the inside of a salt storage bin, when the
Alcohol use may have been a major factor in the suffocation of a general maintenance worker repairing a water leak.
Could This Have Been You? The young driver desperately radioed for help on how to stop the runaway dump truck he was in, but it was too late.
A 22-year-old carpenter was working at a construction site where a multi-unit apartment complex was being built.
A Chevrolet Camaro suddenly screeched into the work zone. It slammed into a parked vehicle, hit Theresa, then crashed into a dump truck and backhoe. Theresa was pronounced dead at the scene.
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.
A construction worker died in a smokestack fire at a West Virginia power plant and three others were plucked by helicopter from the 900-foot structure while it burned.
Argon gas, used in welding, is not toxic but that doesn't mean it can't kill. Why? Argon gas can displace oxygen, potentially asphyxiating workers when used in confined spaces.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal-OSHA) has cited Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in connection with the deaths of three ski patrol members in April 2006.
The owners of a bottle depot recycling business and the company supervisor said they had no knowledge that a safety switch on a cardboard baler had been bypassed.
A 59-year-old worker at a plant that makes plastic bags was fatally injured after falling down industrial stairs.
She did everything she could to keep him from finding her, but in the end her best wasn't good enough.
Verbal instructions on how to perform a task aren't worth much if the worker isn't asked to demonstrate the task and then be supervised doing it until competency is assured.
The deaths of two Manhattan firefighters are being blamed on malfunctioning water pipes at a high rise tower there in late August.
A 27-year-old farmer was pulling a picking machine through a cornfield with a tractor.
The middle-aged farm worker was found by his fiancee in a large barn.
A dump truck spotter working for a North Carolina utility construction company was run over by a bulldozer.
A butcher was killed by a blow to the head from a truck's tailgate.
You need to know about the dangers of confined spaces - even if you don't work in them.
Falls are the second leading cause of accidental deaths in North America - second only to motor vehicle accidents.
A mobile home assembly worker was electrocuted while installing a roof on a mobile home.
A truck driver died after trying to fix a tarp that covered the load on his trailer.
A construction worker was killed when a skid-steer loader crushed him against a dump truck.
A mechanic was killed when a bus fell on him. He apparently had used a 12-ton bottle jack under the differential to raise the rear of the 35,000-pound (15,875-kilogram) bus.
An equipment operator, a long-time employee of a municipality, was crushed between trucks at the service bay.
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