Landscaper Drowns
A 23-year-old worker who could not swim drowned in a [...]
Land Owner Dies In Collapse Of Well Excavation
A property owner had contracted a backhoe operator and a [...]
Ladder Touches High Tension Wire
A ladder touching a high tension wire - this scenario [...]
Ladder Fatality from Fall
INCIDENT On Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, four gutter installation specialists arrived [...]
Lack Of Training About ‘Dead Air’ Leads To Fatality
A barge maintenance worker was found dead of asphyxiation in [...]
Laborer Whipped With Hydraulic Hose
A 32-year-old laborer for a boring and tunneling company died [...]
Laborer Sucked Into Portable Mortar Mixer
Co-workers saw an 18-year-old laborer being pulled between the rotating [...]
OSHA Crane Operator Qualification: News You Can Use
On November 9, 2018 OSHA published a Final Rule amending [...]
By the Numbers – Assured Grounding
DID YOU KNOW? The Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI) uses [...]
Laborer Pinned Against Dump Truck
Sean Merriman, 32, had been working for Caltrans for only [...]
Laborer Falls Through Inadequate Guardrail
Two construction companies have been hit with big fines for [...]
Laborer Electrocuted When Jackhammer Strikes Underground Power Line
A 38-year-old laborer was electrocuted when the jackhammer he was [...]
Laborer Electrocuted On Demolition
A laborer involved in the demolition of a building was [...]
Laborer Drowns in Flooded Pipeline
Could This Have Been You? On average, 5,000 to 6,000 [...]
Laborer Dies Tangled In Mixer
An 18-year-old laborer died after becoming entangled in a portable [...]
Laborer Dies On First Day Of Work
Dec. 16, 2005 was Lajos Feher's first day on the [...]
Laborer Buried as Sand Collapses In Hopper
A mixer operator in a cement roofing tile plant noticed [...]
Ironworker Falls 50 Feet
An ironworker was standing on top of a large door [...]
Ironworker Falls
Could This Have Been You? On average, 5,000 to 6,000 [...]
Ironworker Dies After Fall From Girder
An ironworker died after falling 23 feet (seven meters) from [...]
Inspector Dies in Fall From Bluff
A highway project supervisor who bypassed some basic safety rules [...]
Injured Carpenter Dies Driving To Hospital
The recent death of 27-year-old Octavio Godinez is a lesson [...]
Inexperienced Worker Crushed By Elevator
A worker was crushed to death by an elevator he [...]
Inexperienced Teen Crushed By Forklift
A 17-year-old teenager who was operating a defective forklift in [...]
Incident Investigations
INCIDENT It was an overcast, chilly, Saturday morning in May [...]
