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Items Tagged with 'workplace fatalitity'

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Maine man killed after falling from scissor lift

November 18, 2020

A Yarmouth, Maine man was killed at his job site on November 13 in Wiscasset, Maine when an automatic garage door struck the scissor lift he was working from.


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Explosion kills 2 steam pipe workers at Conn. VA hospital

November 18, 2020

Two workers were killed in an explosion on November 13, 2020 while repairing a steam pipe in a maintenance building at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut, officials said.


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A NIOSH Science Blog post

Workplace safety communications campaigns should be driven by employer, industry, workflow, and culture

Jennifer P. Alexander MSW, MPH Julianne Payne PhD Sydney Webb PhD Stephanie Pratt PhD Rebecca Olsavsky MS David Fosbroke MSF
March 30, 2018
Employees who drive for work face significant roadway risks, and motor vehicle crashes can devastate families, communities, and organizations. Crashes are the leading cause of workplace fatalities, with 1,252 deaths of vehicle drivers and passengers on public roads in 2016. In 2013, on-the-job crashes cost employers over $25 billion and led to 155,000 lost work days. Despite the human and financial costs of crashes, only 24 percent of employers offer occupational health services as part of their wellness programs.
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Five workers killed in molten slag release

January 10, 2018
OSHA has cited Tampa Electric Co. and Gaffin Industrial Services Inc. after five employees were fatally injured, and one other suffered serious burns. In June 2017, OSHA investigated the Big Bend River Station electrical power plant in Apollo Beach following the fatalities. Inspectors determined that the employees were burned when a blockage inside a coal-fired furnace broke free and spewed molten slag into the work area.
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OSHA’s Wall of Shame

With limited staff, agency targets 'Severe Violators'
Paul Feldman Stuart Silverstein
December 19, 2016
Soon after beginning their cleanup of a fume-filled tanker car at an Omaha, Neb., rail maintenance yard, Adrian LaPour and Dallas Foulk were dead. An explosion that April 2015 afternoon trapped LaPour in a flash fire inside the car and hurled Foulk out the top to his death.
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A FairWarning story

Recycling is a feel good activity, but not for workers hurt or killed on the job

Brian Joseph
April 12, 2016
Darkness had enveloped the Newell Recycling yard by the time Erik Hilario climbed into a front-end loader on a cold evening in January 2011. Just 19 years old, Hilario, an undocumented immigrant, had followed his father from Mexico to an industrial park in East Point, Ga., near Atlanta, where they worked as low-skilled laborers amid jagged piles of scrap metal bound for the smelter.
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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.


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18 U.S. miners died in first half of 2015

July 28, 2015

In the first six months of 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration recorded the deaths of 18 miners in mining industry accidents in its national mid-year summary released today. The toll represents a decrease of five metal and nonmetal deaths from the same period in 2014.


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NSC seeks award nominations to recognize collaboration in occupational injury research

Council to honor research partnerships at the National Occupational Injury Research Symposium in May
November 28, 2014

Occupational injury researchers that will be presenting at the 2015 National Occupational Injury Research Symposium in May are invited to apply for the Stakeholder Collaboration in Occupational Injury Research Award, sponsored by the National Safety Council.


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New Hampshire contractor exposed employees to 25-foot falls; faces $61,000 in fines

October 3, 2014
Employees of Ken Stanley, doing business as A+ Roofing, were exposed to potentially fatal falls of up to 25 feet at a Somersworth job site due to their employer's failure to ensure the use of required fall protection, according to federal OSHA.


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