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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
A bulldozer operator was sprayed with hot oil when a hydraulic hose ruptured. He was wearing flammable polyester clothing that melted on his skin. He later died from burn injuries. Investigation showed the hose had
Carbon monoxide killed a supervisor and an engineering draftsman when they entered a lime kiln to check the thickness of the metal walls. The kiln was not blocked off from another nearby kiln which had
A machine at a steel foundry was found to be jammed in the "up" position and could not be lowered. The plant maintenance mechanic, who was an experienced and careful worker, was called to repair
Getting caught between two diesel-operated ditching machines caused fatal injuries at a construction equipment salvage business. The victim was working alone in the scrap yard he owned. He was using a mobile ditch-drilling machine to
A construction elevator at an office building under construction began speeding upwards uncontrollably. It struck the top of the hoistway at about 65 miles an hour. Two of the occupants were killed and three others
The night shift crew at a paper mill told the incoming day shift supervisor that the press was putting an unwanted black line on the paper being produced.
A forklift driver moving scrap wood died when he was crushed between the forklift and a dumpster. He had hauled the load of discarded shingles to a remote section of the yard. A metal dump
A 67-year old feed store employee died from multiple crushing injuries after he was pinned by a forklift that ran off a loading dock and overturned, pinning him to the ground. The victim had dismounted
A snowplow driver went missing and was presumed drowned after the vehicle crashed through the ice on a lake. He had been assigned to plow a winter road linking two communities.
A large diesel fuel tank fell on a worker who was helping move it into place. The tank measured six feet in diameter by nearly 20 feet in length. It weighed 3,000 pounds when empty
A service employee was working on a split-rim tire assembly. He was in the process of removing the outer rear wheel on a truck-tractor. The inner wheel was still inflated which is against the recommended
Do you know no work deadline is more important than safety? Or would you ever drive too fast for safety because of job pressure? Consider what happened to a driver hauling gravel in a hurry
A drill crew was in the process of slipping and cutting a 1-3/8 drill line. Two floormen were assigned to un-spool wire rope until there was approximately a 40-foot loop below the storage reel.
A teenaged hardware sales employee was killed when he fell from a fiberglass extension ladder as he tried to change a lightbulb. He died of a skull fracture when he landed headfirst on the concrete
A construction foreman died and a laborer was critically injured after they were exposed to toxic gases while working in a sewage pumping station dry well.
Could This Have Been You? A 61-year-old construction supervisor was fatally injured when he fell from a roof.
A fatal accident occurred on a drilling rig where a stabbing board, weighing half a ton, fell 45 feet (15 meters) from the derrick, striking a driller who happened to be underneath.
California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) officials want to find out if a steamroller operator was safely belted in before the machine overturned and killed him.
A judge in Calgary, AB, has imposed a 30-month jail term on a sleep-deprived dump truck driver who caused a fatal crash.
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