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A 55-year-old carman fell more than 12 feet to the ground after his aerial lift collapsed. The worker had been standing on an elevated platform to install a canopy on a railcar, but the platform could not support his weight.

A study of work-related injuries involving a hand or fingers among union carpenters in Washington state, 1989 to 2008, found that hand injuries accounted for 21.1% of reported injuries and 9.5% of paid lost-time injuries.

The results of an electrical industry study over 10 years with 120,000 workers showed that there are about 125 electrical injuries per year with 77 percent of them arc flash injuries, 21 percent permanent disabilities and 2.4 percent fatalities.

In 2003, Marianne McGee, compliance assistance specialist, USDOL-OSHA, was working in Corpus Christi, Texas and her team was trying to figure out a strategic management plan with one of the major goals of reducing fatalities in oil and gas, which is considered a high-hazard industry.

Five thousand twenty seven occupational hand injuries treated at a hand and microsurgery hospital between 1992 and 2005 were included in the study reported in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

A new report on workplace fatality numbers, more details on that costly Bumble Bee Foods worker’s death and a new mine rescue outpost opens in Kentucky. These were among the top occupational safety stories posted on ISHN.com this week.

The company that operates theme park SeaWorld and the California agency responsible for protecting the state’s workers are clashing in court. SeaWorld Entertainment is contesting four citations issued by California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health in April alleging that measures used to protect employees who work closely with killer whales are insufficient.

A Tucson, Arizona scrap yard worker was killed yesterday by an explosion after he cut into what turned out to be a military bomb.

The Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission has upheld citations issued by OSHA to Film Allman LLC after an investigation into the death of a 27-year-old camera assistant and injuries to eight other workers.

Preliminary results from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries released this week show the rate of fatal work injuries in 2014 was 3.3 per 100,000 full-time workers, the same as the final rate for 2013.