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Worker killed while mowing lawn


September 2, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

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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OSHA fines SeaWorld in fatal whale attack on trainer


August 25, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, What do you think?, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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Truck driver runs over napping worker


August 10, 2010 by Jeff Holland
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

Pop quiz: Do workers need to check underneath their vehicles before driving away? 

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Employee crushed to death in trash compactor


July 27, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

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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Metro tightens security after fake driver crashes bus


July 15, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Transportation safety

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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Worker chops 7 1/2 fingers off, blames himself


June 30, 2010 by Jim Burger
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Employee responsibility, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Workers' attitudes about safety

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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Worker knocked over by shoplifter: Murder charges may follow


June 28, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, criminal charges

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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Cleaning man pulled into sausage-making machine


May 25, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, OSHA news

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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Update: Company penalized for teen’s death in wood chipper


May 24, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Teen workers, Updated story

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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Pot-smoking worker mauled by grizzly: Does he get comp?


May 24, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Alcohol/drugs, Bizarre Accident of the Week, Injuries, Special Report, What do you think?, Workers' comp, new court decision

Bear

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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Worker fatally crushed by two-ton safe


May 19, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, OSHA news

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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Bizarre accident: Worker crushed under tons of trash


May 17, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

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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Fumes rise from manhole; 1 killed, 3 injured


May 11, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Respiratory safety

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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Worker run over by front-end loader he was driving


May 10, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, construction safety

Michigan-OSHA is investigating a fatality involving a front-end loader at a road construction site.

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Worker’s severed arm reattached


May 7, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Forklift safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views

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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Video captures moments leading to worker fatality


May 4, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Recordkeeping, Video, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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OSHA fines company in workers’ fall on Cowboys’ stadium roof


May 3, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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‘Luckiest guy around’


April 29, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Electrical safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views

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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Worker killed in welding explosion


April 27, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Chemical safety, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, fire/explosion

A 28-year-old worker was killed while welding barrels outside of a car repair shop.

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Proof that even changing a light bulb can be deadly


April 23, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Electrical safety, Falls, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views

Cal-OSHA is looking into a fatality involving a 19-year-old gas station employee.

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Handler killed by circus elephant


April 14, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, OSHA news

No doubt that it was a workplace accident, so OSHA is investigating a fatality linked to a circus elephant.

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Worker loses hand in paper cutter


April 8, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views

Could a moment of distraction have caused a worker to lose his right hand?

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OSHA hits company with hefty fine after worker is scalped


March 24, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, Who Got Fined and Why?

Lack of machine guarding and dangling hair: a combination that can lead to painful injuries.

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Chili-finger lady admits cooking digit lost in workplace incident


March 17, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views

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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Worker buried alive after falling head-first into hole


March 16, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, Fatality, Forklift safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, construction safety

The death of a construction worker in California provides lessons about trenching and forklift use.

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Paramedic suffers fatal heart attack during 911 call


March 15, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

In attempt to save a life, an emergency responder lost his own.

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Fatality: Teen worker falls into sewage pit


March 3, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Falls, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views

Authorities are investigating a gruesome fatality involving a teenager working at a restaurant.

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Bizarre accident: OSHA investigates fatal killer whale attack


March 2, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Investigations, Latest News & Views, OSHA news, What do you think?

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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Bizarre accident: Company faces charges in party fatality


February 24, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, What do you think?, criminal charges

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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Bizarre accident: Horse falls on handler, crushing him


February 19, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, PPE (protective equipment)

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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Bizarre accident: Chopper causes tree to fall, killing worker


February 11, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, OSHA news, Who Got Fined and Why?

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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Sneaking a leak proves deadly; family sues


February 1, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, Special Report, Transportation safety, Workers' comp

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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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Woman dies after being struck by fire hose


February 1, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Transportation safety

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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Trucker killed in explosion; used torch to thaw valve


January 29, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Fatality, In this week's e-newsletter, Latest News & Views, Transportation safety, fire/explosion

OSHA is looking into an explosion that killed a truck driver in Seminole, OK.

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Man hopes to get face transplant after being seriously burned at work


January 19, 2010 by Fred Hosier
Posted in: Bizarre Accident of the Week, Electrical safety, In this week's e-newsletter, Injuries, Latest News & Views, construction safety

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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