Serious injuries & fatalities (sifs) - Articles - Page 55

Blast in Omaha railcar kills two, injures one

Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services cited for more than 30 violations after tragedy

November 5, 2015

Moments before a blast ripped through a railcar on April 14, 2015, a check of the air quality inside indicated a serious risk of an explosion. Despite the warning, Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services sent two employees, aged 41 and 45, into the railcar to work without monitoring the air continuously for explosive hazards as required, nor providing the employees with emergency retrieval equipment or properly fitted respirators.

NIOSH to study oil field behaviors and concerns

Benita Mehta

November 3, 2015

It’s common knowledge that the oil and gas industry is dangerous and the death toll is higher than other industries, but the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows it hasn’t been improving.

New Zealand report: Men more prone than women to workplace accidents

October 27, 2015

Men were more prone than women to workplace accidents in 2014, generating 71 percent of all injury claims and 96 percent of fatal injury claims, Statistics New Zealand said.

The keys to successful Injury and fatality prevention programs

Sam Prusek

October 26, 2015

Injury and fatality prevention programs provide the foundation for changes in how hazards are identified and controlled.

Injuries cost the US $671 billion in 2013

CDC study shows injuries and violence create substantial economic burden

October 26, 2015

The total cost of injuries and violence in the United States was $671 billion in 2013, according to two Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR) released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

DuPont settles with one victim’s family in fatal Texas gas leak

October 22, 2015

DuPont has settled one of the lawsuits brought by the families of four workers killed in a fatal gas leak at DuPont's La Porte plant in November, 2014, according to the Houston Chronicle.

OSHA finds improper load rigging caused fatal worker injury in Nebraska

October 20, 2015

OSHA's Omaha Area Office cited a drilling contractor based in Riverside, Missouri for three for three serious safety violations, after a 42-year-old worker was fatally injured on a job site in Lincoln, Nebraska on June 24, 2015.

Michaels to Congress: OSHA targets most dangerous workplaces

Dr. David Michaels

October 16, 2015

...Earlier this year in Houston, Texas, a worker was hospitalized with broken arms and severe contusions after falling 12 feet off of a roof. The saddest part of this case wasn't that the employer did not provide fall protection for this worker; it was that the worker had actually requested fall protection and the employer had denied it.

Safety mechanisms would have prevented worker's death

OSHA cites Endicott Clay Products

October 14, 2015

Following the death of a worker on June 16, 2015, OSHA cited the Endicott Clay Products’ brick manufacturing plant for three serious safety violations.

OSHA: Meatpacking District fatality 'completely avoidable'

"Carlos Moncayo was a person, not a statistic"

October 13, 2015

Carlos Moncayo, a 22-year-old laborer from Queens, was trying to make a living as he worked on the construction of a Restoration Hardware store at 19 Ninth Ave. in Manhattan on April 6, 2015. Instead, his life ended that day when the 14-foot-deep trench in which he was working collapsed and buried him beneath tons of soil and debris.