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Fall kills Cirque du Soleil performer

March 19, 2018
A French aerialist plunged to his death Saturday night in Tampa, Florida, while performing an aerial straps routine in the famed Cirque du Soleil theatrical company’s “Volta” show. News reports say Yann Arnaud was performing on the double rings when one of his hands slipped and he fell about 20 feet to the stage in front of horrified spectators.
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TV stuntman death results in citation, fine

January 15, 2018
The motion picture company behind the TV show, “The Walking Dead” has been cited and fined for a fatal fall that occurred on the Senoia, Georgia set last year. Stuntman John Bernecker died on July 12 of blunt force trauma to the head after plunging headfirst from a balcony to a concrete floor 22 feet below.
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Two workers plunge to their deaths on Scottish windfarms

July 6, 2017
A worker died after plunging to his death from a turbine at a Scots windfarm. The Spanish man’s death at the UK’s largest onshore wind farm follows the death of a Portuguese worker in Scotland on March 15, 2017.
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Doorman dies in freak accident after falling through glass window

March 15, 2017
The 59-year-old man was shoveling steps when he slipped and fell through a glass window The doorman at a Yorkville apartment building in New York City that provides housing for doctors and residents died in an accident after slipping while shoveling snow, family members and law enforcement sources said.
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Kroger worker dies because of unsafe equipment

June 21, 2016
A 27-year-old laborer lost his life ended suddenly because his employer failed to have a competent person inspect the rail supporting a scaffold system nearly 80 feet off the ground for visible defects, an investigation by OSHA has found.
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Construction company owner indicted for manslaughter

June 20, 2016
Salvatore Schirripa, a Bensonhurst, N.Y., construction company owner, has been indicted on manslaughter and other charges following the April 2015 death of Vidal Sanchez-Ramon, his employee at a Coney Island work site. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison.
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Contractor dies after falling through skylight

April 11, 2016
HVAC installer Timothy O’Neal Gearing and a co-worker were trying to unjam a saw stuck in a metal roof when the saw jerked loose, causing Gearing to lose his balance and fall through an unguarded skylight. The 39-year-old plunged to the concrete ground 15 feet below died from his injuries after being transported to a hospital.
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OSHA enforcement

Lack of fall protection led to roofer's death in fall at Cincinnati work site

Employer faces $117K in fines
March 4, 2016
The life of a 53-year-old roofer who died after dropping 40 feet to the ground could have been saved if his employer had provided proper fall protection, the OSHA has found.
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Settlement to honor two workers killed in crane accident

January 13, 2016
A settlement agreement between the U.S. Department of Labor and Mass Bay Electrical Corp. commits the East Boston electrical contractor to extensive corrective action to prevent future deaths and injuries and establishes a training fund in the memory of Joseph Boyd III and John Loughran, who were killed when a crane toppled in Bourne on April 12, 2014.
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Mo. company charged in employee’s death

November 23, 2015
A Missouri contractor faces federal charges in the death of an employee, who plunged more than 30 feet to his death at a Kansas City construction site in July, 2015.
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