Is no place, no action, safe from a potential injury at work? Guess not.
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Tags: bathrooms, exploding toilet, General Services Administration, Washington DC
One worker was killed, another remains hospitalized in critical condition after the collapse of a zip line tower on Hawaii’s Big Island.
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Tags: GoZip LLC, Hawaii, internal injuries, tower collapse, zip line
Imagine this: Employees at a work site have some down time while waiting for materials to arrive. To amuse themselves while waiting, they try to smash a bowling ball with a sledge hammer. An employee is injured. Does the injury quality for workers’ comp benefits?
Tags: bowling ball, goofing off, Pennsylvania, positive work order violation, sledge hammer, Workers' comp
New York City Fire Department Capt. James Melvin says he’s never witnessed anything like this in his 34-year career: the rescue of two construction workers from neck-high water in an elevator.
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Tags: cell phone, drowning, elevator, rescue
A worker was killed after being spun around and mangled by a drilling rig at a construction project near Aspen, CO.
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A worker was injured while he was on his lunch break but still on company property. Does the injury qualify for workers’ comp benefits?
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Tags: arising out of employment, bicycle, nursing home, startled by rabbit, Workers' comp
Investigators are trying to determine how an experienced maintenance worker died while performing a task that others described as “a very routine procedure.”
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Tags: Air New Zealand, Lockheed C-130, routine maintenance, sucked into plane engine
For workers who travel as part of their jobs, workers’ compensation covers certain kinds of injuries involved with the travel itself — no question about that. Then, there’s this case …
Tags: Australia, business trip, injuries involved with travel, workers' compensation
Lack of machine guarding can prove fatal in all sorts of businesses.
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Tags: bowling, machine guarding, personal fall arrest system
OSHA is investigating the death of a worker at a sausage factory in Lawton, OK.
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Tags: cleaning machinery, energized, meat grinder
Is this the adult version of “my dog ate my homework”?
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Tags: broken arm, JC Penney, tripped over dog, work at home, Workers' comp
Earlier this year, an elephant killed an animal trainer at the Knoxville Zoo in Tennessee. Now the zoo faces fines from that state’s safety agency (TOSHA).
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Tags: elephant killed trainer, General Duty Clause, Knoxville Zoo, TOSHA
Truck driver Steven McCormack says his recent workplace injury made him “feel like the Michelin Man.”
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Tags: compressed air, slip and fall, truck driver
Apparently, there’s no end to the variety of injuries employees can suffer on the job, for which they want to get workers’ comp benefits. Today’s injury: a spider bite.
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Tags: brown recluse spider, forklifts, skin infection, spider bite, Workers' comp
Employee Michael Stokes suffered an ankle injury at work which required surgery. How did this lead to his widow requesting death and funeral benefits under workers’ comp? And did she get them?
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Tags: ankle injury, bacteria, death benefits, Schindler Elevator, surgery, Workers' comp, wound care
An employee was on an allowed lunch break. When he went just across the street from where he was working to eat his sandwich, he was injured. Should he get workers’ comp benefits?
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Cal-OSHA will investigate the death of a worker who fell into a meat grinder. The company paid a fine seven years ago for another incident involving a similar machine.
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Tags: cleaning, lock out, meat grinder
A lawsuit in Florida alleges that lack of machine guarding left an employee disfigured.
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Tags: contract worker, lawsuit, machine guarding, severed
OSHA won’t cite the owner of a bear that killed another man at his wild animal compound last year.
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Tags: bear mauling, exotic animals, killed by a bear, wild animal compound
OSHA is looking into the case of a worker in Brooklyn, NY, who was crushed to death inside a mixer. Meanwhile, the state has shut down the business.
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Tags: crushed to death, lock out, pulled into machine, tortilla-mixing machine
Part of workplace safety is identifying risks. However, sometimes it’s difficult to imagine a series of events like this one that left a worker severely injured.
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Tags: bizarre series of events, boom, cutting torch, hydraulic hose
Did a maintenance worker willfully enter a trash compactor, or did he fall in? That’s one question involved with a lawsuit filed by the worker’s children, alleging wrongful death.
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Even after an OSHA fine, SeaWorld plans to restart shows with killer whales next month, almost a year to the day that a trainer was killed by one of the animals.
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Tags: Dine with Shamu, killer whales, SeaWorld
A man suffered fatal injuries while working alone on his family farm in Herkimer, NY.
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OSHA is investigating an incident in Franzen, WI, in which a man was injured in a machine used to crush old cars.
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Tags: car crusher, crane operator, crush old cars
OSHA is investigating an incident in which an employee of a construction company was killed when some of his co-workers threw a refrigerator off of a fourth story balcony, crushing the employee.
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Tags: killed by falling refrigerator, threw refrigerator off balcony, Wiegand Enterprises
A groundskeeper was killed after he was hit in the head by a stray ball on a golf course.
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Tags: killed by golf ball, Mayfair Country Club, struck in the temple
You might not list long johns as safety gear. But a teenager is glad he was wearing his at work — they saved him from serious injury.
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Tags: apprentice, industrial sander, long johns, thermal underwear
It’s a message that can’t be repeated too often to employees who work anywhere near a confined space: Don’t try to be a hero if you’re not trained to be an emergency rescuer.
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Tags: confined spaces, drown in olive mulch, hero, rescuers
This story is a good reminder of the hazards when machines are shut down for cleaning, maintenance or to clear debris.
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Tags: cleaning, leg amputated, maintenance, trapped in machine
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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