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A worker loading a tank truck at a petrochemical plant was killed by an explosion which was apparently set off by electrostatic ignition. He had just written and passed his safety exams the month before.
A building contractor died when he was trapped in the burning basement of a house under construction. Another worker was using an oxyacetylene cutting torch to cut I-beams over the basement of the house. Stray
An experienced worker and his untrained helper lowered an aluminum ladder into an underground fuel storage tank. A small access hatch had been cut into the tank using a water cooled saw. One of the
A piece of a crane motor fell and struck a worker in the head. The mishap occurred when the lifting boom of the crane did not respond to the operator's command. The loaded boom began
A poultry worker was fatally wounded when a co-worker inadvertently started the feather dryer tank he was cleaning. The incident occurred at a poultry ranch where birds are grown for food. The worker had been
Workers tending a paper manufacturing machine had to enter an narrow overhead platform above a moving press roller. One day a worker was on this 14-inch (.35-meter) wide platform structure. He was using a compressed
Could exposure to a workplace solvent cause someone to commit suicide? A coroner in Wellington, New Zealand, says it could. He conducted an inquest into the death of a worker in the printing industry who
A crew had been contracted to clean nets at an ocean-side fish farm. They were working aboard a barge which was fitted with a fixed boom crane. This crane was being used to lift a
A tubular welded frame scaffold was covered with ice and snow. A construction laborer working on the third level slipped and fell headfirst to his death on the pavement about 20 feet (6.1 meters) below.
A railroad bridge building crew was dispatched to a job they had never done before – to try to break up a log jam against a bridge in a river. The crew tried first to
A property owner had contracted a backhoe operator and a helper to assist him in digging a well. The excavation was 14 feet by 10 feet. The sides were not sloped nor were they shored
A visitor to a hospital was seriously injured when he was hit by a motor vehicle carrying laundry. The driver was backing up and did not see him. The victim died three days later during
A container of volatile flammable liquid fell to the floor in front of an electric heater. The vapors reached the hot element and started a flash fire and explosion.
Electrical lines were grounded and de-energized before a lineman went to work on them, but he still died of electrocution. He was working from an aerial lift with an articulated boom. The basket touched energized
A maintenance worker with no electrical training was electrocuted while doing renovation work in a 10-story office tower. The victim was standing on an aluminum ladder removing ceiling tiles when both hands made contact with
Some 2.2 million people worldwide die of work-related accidents and occupational diseases each year.
A 17-year old worker died just one hour into his new job after becoming pinned under a forklift. He hadn't received any job orientation or training.
An 18-year-old laborer died after becoming entangled in a portable mortar mixer.
Dec. 16, 2005 was Lajos Feher's first day on the job, and sadly his last.
I'm off to work now, Dad, Alicia* called as she raced for the front door. Don't wait up for me.
A crew was installing flagging material in the sand line with the rig engine running. Someone bumped the sand drum clutch lever. The drum was engaged and one employee fell into the compartment and was fatally injured.
The supervisor of a towing company died as a result of falling under a truck wheel.
Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration (MIOSHA) investigators are trying to determine how a robotic arm pulled a manager into a press while it was being cleaned. Steven McGirr, 46, died instantly.
Operating excavators, tractors and other equipment on uneven terrain can be tricky. Doing so proved deadly for a young worker at a Ft. Myers, FL, construction site.
Frank hung in there "until the cows came home," but in the end he couldn't bargain with a blood clot.
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