A grim Top Ten list: COSH names 2011's notable workplace fatalities
From agriculture to mining to health care, the occupational fatalities that made the 2011 top ten list compiled by the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health's (COSH) spanned many industries and highlighted notable gaps in regulatory attempts to address workplace hazards.
1) The list was topped by a massive grain elevator explosion in Kansas that killed six workers and was felt up to three miles away. The incident at the Bartlett Grain Co. in Atchison, Kansas on October 29 killed Chad Roberts, Ryan Federinko and Curtis Field, all of Atchison; John Burke of Denton, Kansas; Travis Keil of Topeka, Kansas, and Darrek Klahr of Wetmore, Kansas. They ranged in ages from 20 to 43.