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Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Crushed by Five-Ton Beam
Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Crushed by Five-Ton Beam A 14-year-old boy, employed as a laborer, was crushed by a five-ton beam that [...]
Forklift Backs Into Hidden Trench
An equipment operator working for a power company was killed when she backed a forklift into a trench covered with [...]
Foreman Killed in Mixer
INCIDENT It was an overcast, chilly, Saturday morning in May 2014 when a young worker in Kentucky lost his life [...]
Flag Person Run Over
A 41-year-old worker was killed when a car struck him while he was flagging traffic. He was part of a [...]
Faulty Wiring Electrocutes Worker
On a rainy evening, a worker was repairing a broken window in a second-story retail shop. He stepped outside on [...]
Father Watches Son Die On Job
Jorge Vale saw it coming, but it was too late; he couldn’t save his son. Death was apparently instantaneous for [...]
Father Operating Faulty Crane Lead to Son’s Death
Three men hug near where the bodies of two workers were recovered after they died when their crane-hoisted lift basket [...]
Fatal Fall from Scaffold
A worker died of a broken neck and skull after he fell 23 feet from a scaffold. He was working [...]
Falling Steps Crush Man
A 72-year-old truck driver hired to transport and deliver a set of pre-cast concrete steps to a residence was crushed [...]
Falling Steel Pipe Kills Worker
Many fatalities are caused by cave-ins of trenches that have not been shored up. This case report is about a [...]
Falling Steel Bars Cause Massive Head Injuries
About mid-day a foreman and three carpenters were assisting a crane operator with the placement of a 6000 pound steel [...]
Falling Rock Crushes Worker
The Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of New Brunswick is investigating the death of a excavator operator who was [...]
Falling Crane Shears Off Light Standard
A worker received massive head injuries when a crane lifting a 54,600-pound piece of steel tipped over. The crane was [...]
Falling Bucket Takes Worker Down
Just as construction can be dangerous work, so can taking structures down. This proved to be the case for a [...]
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