On average, about 95 people are killed each year in lawn-mowing incidents. A worker for New Castle County in Delaware is a recent victim.
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Tags: ANSI, consumer product safety commission, killed mowing lawn, riding mower
OSHA has cited SeaWorld of Florida for three safety violations following the death of an animal trainer who was pulled under the water by a six-ton killer whale in Orlando.
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Tags: Dawn Brancheau, drowning, killer whale, SeaWorld, Tilikum
Pop quiz: Do workers need to check underneath their vehicles before driving away?
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Here’s a question for employees: If an item falls into a large trash compactor by mistake, is it worth risking your life to try to retrieve the item?
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Tags: crushed, trash compactor, video surveillance
It seems like an essential security step: Make sure someone can’t wander into your workplace and steal a company vehicle. But that’s exactly what happened recently at Washington DC’s Metro transit system.
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Those who think workers are too quick to blame everyone else for accidents that happen in the workplace will be heartened by this employee’s attitude.
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Police are trying to determine whether to file murder charges against an accused shoplifter who knocked over a store clerk while allegedly trying to steal a TV.
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Here’s a reminder for maintenance and cleaning workers: It’s crucial that machines are locked and tagged out while they’re working on them.
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Tags: locked and tagged out, maintenance and cleaning, sausage-making machine
A few months ago, we told you about a 14-year-old high school freshman who was pulled into a wood chipper and killed while working for a lawn-care company. The teen had been living with the company’s owner. Now, the Virginia Dept. of Labor and Industry has decided on a penalty.
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Tags: killed in wood chipper, teen's death, Virginia Dept. of Labor and Industry
A worker at a bear park smoked pot before coming to work where he fed grizzlies. The worker was seriously injured by one of the bears. A workers’ compensation judge called that “mind-bogglingly stupid.” But did the judge rule the worker was entitled to workers’ comp?
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Tags: marijuana, mauled by grizzly, pot smoking, Workers' comp
In the wake of a bizarre workplace fatality, here’s some advice for workers who manually move equipment weighing thousands of pounds: If the load starts to shift, just get out of the way.
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Tags: crushed by a safe, fatally crushed, manually move equipment
It’s a reminder for workers who operate or work near large moving equipment: Know where the equipment and your co-workers are at all times.
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Tags: bulldozer, crushed under trash, large moving equipment, suffocation
One worker was killed and three firefighters were hospitalized after being overcome by mysterious fumes that rose out of an opened manhole in Middletown, OH.
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Tags: fall, mysterious fumes, nitrogen, overcome by fumes
Michigan-OSHA is investigating a fatality involving a front-end loader at a road construction site.
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Tags: construction site, front-end loader, lost control of vehicle, worker run over
A worker’s arm was severed in an incident at the construction site for a new BMW plant in Greer, SC.
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Tags: BMW, lift machine, severed arm reattached
Workplace cameras captured a practice used by several workers at a Cintas laundry facility in Tulsa, OK: They’d climb onto large conveyors to dislodge stuck piles of clothing going into industrial dryers. One camera also recorded Eleazar Torres Gomez as he was pulled into one of the dryers — an incident that led to his death.
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Tags: Cintas, David Michaels, dramatic video, incentive programs, pulled into dryer
A subcontractor faces an OSHA fine in connection with an incident on the roof of the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium that seriously injured two workers.
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When sheriff’s deputies arrived in response to a call about a worker who was shocked by a piece of machinery, they found a man with no pulse.
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Tags: AED, CPR, defibrillator, shocked by machine
A 28-year-old worker was killed while welding barrels outside of a car repair shop.
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Tags: explosion, residual chemical vapors, welding
Cal-OSHA is looking into a fatality involving a 19-year-old gas station employee.
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Tags: changing a light bulb, electrocution, severe grief reaction
No doubt that it was a workplace accident, so OSHA is investigating a fatality linked to a circus elephant.
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Tags: electrical, employee working alone, killed by elephant
Could a moment of distraction have caused a worker to lose his right hand?
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Tags: CAL-OSHA, paper cutter, worker loses hand
Lack of machine guarding and dangling hair: a combination that can lead to painful injuries.
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Tags: machine guarded, unprotected rotating shaft, worker scalped
Remember the story from about five years ago in which a woman planted a man’s finger, severed in a workplace accident, in a bowl of Wendy’s chili, hoping to win a big lawsuit with the fast-food chain? Now she’s come forward with more details on exactly how she did it.
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Tags: finger lady, severed finger, Wendy's
The death of a construction worker in California provides lessons about trenching and forklift use.
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Tags: buried alive, falling, forklift, trench
In attempt to save a life, an emergency responder lost his own.
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Tags: 911 call, fatal heart attack, paramedic
Authorities are investigating a gruesome fatality involving a teenager working at a restaurant.
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Tags: sewage pit, teenager, uncovered manhole
An OSHA investigation will determine whether any safety protocols were broken in connection with the drowning of a trainer by a killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando.
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An employer is accused of violating workplace safety regulations after a worker was fatally struck by a mechanical horse during a party.
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Tags: bizarre accident, mechanical horse, struck in the head
Situations in which a falling item kills a worker aren’t that uncommon. But in this case, the thing that fell was alive.
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Tags: bizarre accident, crushed, worker killed
OSHA has issued several citations to the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in Oregon in connection with an incident in which an employee was killed by a falling tree.
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Tags: goggles, hard hat, helicopter, killed by falling tree
A sanitation employee, who was preparing to urinate while standing on a platform on the back of a garbage truck, fell off the truck as it was backing up. He was killed after the truck backed over him. His family is seeking workers’ comp benefits because of a modification made to the truck.
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Tags: garbage truck, intentional wrong exception, truck backed over him, workers' compensation
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says 10% of all workplace deaths are caused by employees being struck by objects or equipment.
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Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, secure equipment, struck-by
OSHA is looking into an explosion that killed a truck driver in Seminole, OK.
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Tags: explosion, propane torch, trucker killed
Fourteen months after a workplace incident that burned nearly all the flesh from the crown of his head to the tip of his chin, a Texas man is waiting to hear whether he may be a candidate for a rare face transplant.
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Tags: face transplant, seriously burned, touched a high-voltage power line
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