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A worker assigned to make repairs near an overhead hoist was cautioned to "be careful." There were high voltage warning signs nearby. He was not told that the power supply to the overhead hoist was
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
A crew was digging a small tunnel under a driveway using a horizontal boring machine in preparation for installing an underground telephone cable. The rod had been removed from the hole. While it was still
A load of wooden beams fell from a flatbed trailer and killed a person who was standing by to help hook the trailer to a transport tractor. The victim and another worker were hired to
A rancher died from suffocation and internal injuries received when he was crushed by a round hay bale.
An experienced chainsaw operator was killed when the saw he was using struck him in the neck. He was cutting the limbs from a dead tree when the tip of the saw caught on an
A crew had spent the night shift drilling in preparation for blasting rock in a mine. They set off the blast, but heard only about half of the expected shots. They went to work on
A groundsman on a power line crew received a fatal electrical shock when he climbed a power pole. The three-person crew was installing a new power transmission line to replace an older one.
A crane operator was killed when an 80-foot (25-meter) tree fell and crushed the cab. A second worker was injured, as was a bystander struck by a tree while attempting to rescue the crane operator.
One week after he answered a "help wanted" sign in a pizza shop window, a young man died of injuries from a motor vehicle crash. He was making a delivery near the pizza place, which
The following is a real-life example of what went wrong and what corrective measures resulted from an incident in the oil and gas industry.
A rock quarry supervisor died when he was hit by a half-ton machine part while servicing a crushing machine. He and two workers were working on a weekend when the quarry was shut down. They
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.
Could This Have Been You? A machine operator was killed when he lost control of the asphalt roller he was operating.
Could This Have Been You? Lowering A-legs in the oil and gas industry can be hazardous if all the wrong things happen, and they did to one Alberta worker.
There is something to be said for following proper work procedures, including the inspection of tools and equipment.
Hand-held grinders are used frequently in the oil and gas industry in both maintenance shops and in the field. These tools contain significant potential energy and should be treated with respect.
An unsafe practice that was allegedly encouraged by his employer resulted in a 52-year-old man losing his life in December 2005.
It has taken more than two years, but a Nebraska company has finally pleaded guilty in the death of an employee who was buried alive by soybeans in 2003.
It's said life begins at 40. Sadly, for Gregory Scott Johnson, it ended at that age when he became caught between two hydraulic cylinders used to pull logs toward a saw at the Suwannee Lumber Co. in Dixie County, FL.
A 17-year-old teenager who was operating a defective forklift in a construction yard in Portsmouth, UK, died suddenly when the machine overturned and crushed him.
An immigrant from Ecuador who was working construction in the Bronx, NY, was killed in an unusual incident involving an excavator.
A young father of two children was killed in an unusual manner in Dayton, OH, late in 2006. Thomas Morgan, 29, was trying to free a jam in a concrete crusher when he was struck by part of the machine.
A 53-year-old construction worker died after trying to warn another worker to get away from a wall at a building demolition site in Wilkes-Bar, PA.
Like a pendulum, the outcome of an incident can swing either way, resulting in a close call or a workplace fatality.
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