Could This Have Been You? On average, 5,000 to 6,000 workers are killed each year. Learn from the following reports of real workplace fatalities to avoid a similar fate. A machine operator was killed when he lost control of the asphalt roller he was operating. The 54-year-old was dispatched from the union hall that day and had been operating the equipment for approximately three hours. He had worked as an operating engineer for the past six years through the local union. He was operating a nine-wheel asphalt roller, which is used to compact asphalt on a roadway. The 60,000-pound (27,215-kilogram) machine was working on […]