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Engineer Electrocuted With 550 Volts
A worker assigned to make repairs near an overhead hoist was cautioned to "be careful." There were high voltage warning [...]
Employer Charged After Worker Dies in Fall Through Skylight
A worker suffered fatal injuries when he fell through a skylight located on a roof undergoing maintenance. As a result, [...]
Elevator Speeds Upward
A construction elevator at an office building under construction began speeding upwards uncontrollably. It struck the top of the hoistway [...]
Scaffolding Topped OSHA’s 2009 Safety Violations List
Scaffolding violations topped the list of OSHA violations in 2009, with 9,093 violations cited. OSHA says scaffold accidents most often [...]
Electrical Hazards Aren’t Always Overhead
Workers often get into trouble by failing to look up when moving metal ladders, poles and other objects. If such [...]
Electrical Contact Sets Off Fireball
A journeyman painter died of massive thermal burns caused when an electrical contact set off an explosion of volatile waterproofing [...]
Dump Truck Runs Over Driver
A 39-year-old father of five was killed when he was run over by a dump truck. He was a truck [...]
Dump Box Crushes Worker
A truck driver was crushed to death between the frame and dump box of a dump truck. He had been [...]
Drum Starts Unexpectedly
What Happened? A crew was installing flagging material in the sand line with the rig engine running. Someone bumped the [...]
OSHA Says Fall Hazards Topped Big Apple Violation List
An OSHA construction safety task force that descended upon 46 New York City construction sites during two weeks this past [...]
Driver Trapped in Crushed Cab
A hydraulic cylinder crushed the cab of a dump truck, fatally injuring the driver. The incident occurred when the driver [...]
Driver Drowns As Machine Burns
A heavy equipment operator drowned when his machine crashed and caught fire in a pit which had a small amount [...]
Dream Buried Under Ton of Wet Dirt
Jose Vega, a 36-year-old construction worker, had a dream of one day reuniting with his little girl, a year after [...]
Ditching Machine Veers Into Operator
Getting caught between two diesel-operated ditching machines caused fatal injuries at a construction equipment salvage business. The victim was working [...]
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