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2014 Fatality Tracker
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INDUSTRIAL LINEMAN FATAL FALL Duke worker from Hamilton dies in fall (worker, 43, died and another was hurt when the two fell while working on a power pole at 12:41 p.m. – the other worker was taken by life squad to a hospital – his condition was not immediately available – the utility pole reportedly fell on top of one or both of the workers – what caused the fall was not immediately known) FATAL FALL from OFFSHORE PLATFORM Taqa worker dies in UK platform accident (man dies after fall from a platform – he had fallen overboard during maintenance activity on the platform at 2.17am – he was recovered from the sea by a support vessel and transferred to a Hospital by helicopter) CRANE FATALITY @ TERMINAL Worker Dies in Corpus Christi Terminal Accident (a contract worker, 54, at a storage terminal complex has died after a metal pipe fell on him – he was dead at the scene after being struck by a pipe that fell from a crane – two workers were killed in December at the complex when a tank collapsed and the men fell about 60 feet) MOLTEN STEEL FATALITY Worker burns up in deluge of molten metal in Shikoku (worker was killed when 13 tonnes of a molten ferroalloy were dumped on him – he was working beneath a huge bucket of glowing molten metal when the accident occurred – he and three other workers were preparing to turn the metal into round shapes and cool them – when the bucket was about to pour the 1,300 degree (2,400F) metal into a 2 meter high mold, it tipped over for some reason, pouring it all over the worker instead) CONFINED SPACE Man taken to hospital after being burned at Old Town mill (a subcontractor was brought to a hospital early Tuesday after an incident at the mill – firefighters and a hazmat team were dispatched to the mill at 3 a.m. when it was reported a worker apparently was trapped and had been burned by black liquor, a material used for papermaking – the man’s co-workers managed the extricate him before firefighters arrived – firefighters reportedly put the man through decontamination procedures before taking him to a Medical Center) DRY CLEANING CHEMICAL BURNS FD: Worker burned in chemical spill at Flagstaff business (employee at a dry cleaning business is recovering at a Burn Center after receiving burns from a chemical spill – the chemical that spilled is a commonly used dry cleaning chemical and when used, it heats to “very high temperatures” – the worker had severe burns) UPDATE on FATAL EXPLOSION Burned Worker Dies, Experts Begin Explosion Investigation (an employee who was severely injured in a manufacturing plant explosion has died – he was burned over 90 percent of his body in the blast – the plant makes air and naval decoy flares for the military) EXPLOSION Worker injured in Fort Frances mill blast (a mill worker is in critical condition at a hospital after an explosion and fire at a plant – an operator suffered burns in the fire in the biomass boiler building – worker is listed in critical condition – the fire was brought under control and extinguished quickly) FATAL EXPLOSION Blast In A Bulgarian Explosives Factory Kills One (a worker was killed by a blast in the explosives shop of a weapons factory – he had multiple injuries and 98% burns to the body – initial reports claimed that there were other injured workers, but later they were denied – the explosion has caused the partial collapse of the building) DUST EXPLOSION (????)Workers injured in grain facility explosion (two workers, 33 and 49, were injured in an explosion at a grain facility just before 11 a.m. – initial reports indicated several people were injured in the explosion – two employees were treated at the scene by EMS) LOADING DOCK FATALITY Worker crushed in Peculiar has died (a worker, 29, has died after being crushed by truck tractor and trailer at a business – he was helping the driver back the rig in when the accident happened – he died about 12 hours later at an area hospital) CRUSHED Man crushed while dismantling obsolete press at GM (a contract laborer working to dismantle a piece of equipment outside of a facility’s metal center was injured at 11:30 a.m. – he was dismantling an obsolete press – the press had been inside the plant and had been moved outside for disassembly) CRANE FATALITY Worker dies from industrial accident on Up River Rd.(worker, 53, was struck by a 2000-pound pipe, 60-65 feet in length, after it fell loose from a crane – he died at the scene) FALL Worker injured at the Ala. State Docks (a man was seriously hurt when he fell approximately one hundred feet into the hull of a ship shortly before midnight – the worker fell between two larges pieces of metal that were only 18 inches apart – he was in serious condition when he was transported to a Medical Center) LOTO/GUARDING FATALITY Man dies in Seneca Foods industrial accident (a worker, 42, was killed in an industrial accident – he died after getting tangled in a piece of industrial equipment just after 4 p.m.) HOTWORK Sparks from welding rod cause of warehouse fire (there is an indication that sparks coming from a welding rod caused the fire – the fire started at the ongoing construction – while the workers were using the welding machine, sparks from the welding rod may have hit the plastic wares or textiles inside the warehouse – firefighters had difficulty in stopping the fire, because of the flammable materials inside the warehouse – fire destroyed P2-million worth of plastic wares, woods, and textiles inside the warehouse – fire was put out almost 12 hours later) HOTWORK Early morning fire sparked in oil pit at Portage warehouse (welding may have sparked fire in an industrial oil pit – Fire Department responded at 5:10 a.m. to find a large fire in an oil pit – crews found smoke coming from multiple locations of the large steel processing warehouse – crews located the fire in an oil pit underneath a rolling machine in the middle of the warehouse – due to the contents of the pit, firefighters used special foam to extinguish the fire, along with 1,000 gallons of water – maintenance workers said they were doing repairs to the machine and were using a welding machine when the fire started – damage was contained to the oil pit and rolling machine directly above the pit – there were no injuries) REFINERY FIRE Fire at Japanese oil refinery injures several workers (several workers were injured when a fire broke out in the residue hydrocracking unit – fire spread from the reactor of the 31,000 barrel per day (bpd) hydrocracking unit during a cleaning at about 4:40am – the unit has been shutdown since early last month for maintenance – the fire had been brought almost under control by pumping nitrogen into the unit – six workers were treated at hospitals and one was admitted – it was not yet clear what caused the fire, how much damage had been done, nor when the unit would resume operations) REFINERY FIRE No injuries after flash fire at ExxonMobil refinery (no one was injured during a small fire that broke out at a refinery at roughly 3 p.m. – it took crews less than an hour to make sure that the flames were fully extinguished – there was no impact outside of the plant and no evacuations were needed – current air monitoring shows no hydrocarbons above detectable limits) REFINERY FIRE Fire at oil refinery near Ascension Parish line extinguished (a fire was under control shortly after crews arrived on scene around 3:45 p.m. – it was under control in less than an hour – no one was injured and the incident caused to off-site impact) RADIATION Nuclear waste in limbo after accident at New Mexico plant (a radiation leak has worked its way above ground – at least 13 employees at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have tested positive for radiation exposure) EXPLOSION Two Injured in Furnace Explosion at Processing Plant (two people are in the hospital after a furnace explosion at a thermal processing plant just before 1:00 p.m. – a furnace that was shut down before 8:30 a.m. and had been processing experienced a flash explosion – one employee, 30, suffered burns to his face and chest and was taken to a Hospital in serious condition due to the possibility of respiratory tract burns – a second employee, 29, suffered a possible concussion and was taken to a Hospital in stable condition – there was no fire after the explosion) OVER-PRESSURE EVENT Dump valve caused geothermal station ‘explosion’ (a loud explosion was heard after a first-stage pressure dump valve failed at a geothermal plant – a small amount of gas was released into the atmosphere and several loud bangs were heard when a secondary safety release valve was triggered at the geothermal electricity generation plant around 5.30am – the single staff member on overnight duty activated the emergency procedure to automatically shut down the plant and summoned the Fire Service before vacating the site safely – the site holds 30,000 litres of pentane gas – the build-up occurred in a vaporizer unit which transfers heat from geothermal liquid into the pentane which, in turn, drives the turbines – a first-stage pressure dump valve which is supposed to release pressure as it built did not operate as it should have – a secondary safety release valve operated as designed, creating several loud bangs) AMMONIA No one injured in ammonia leak at Hagestown business (no one was injured when ammonia leaked from a refrigeration system at 9:52 p.m. -firefighters identified the odor as ammonia vapors coming from an exhaust fan – property owner called to have the leak in the refrigeration system repaired – firefighters cleared the scene about three hours after the original call came in) CRANE FATALITIES w/ ELECTROCUTION Two Workers Die In Texas Power Line Accident (two oilfield workers were killed when a piece of industrial equipment touched a live power line – two men were electrocuted – other workers tried to help the two victims who were taken transported to a hospital, but could not be saved – a crane sustained minor damage in the accident) CONSTRUCTION TRENCH Ladder truck used as crane to lift injured worker from 18-foot-deep Vegas trench (firefighters used a ladder truck as a crane to pull an injured worker out of an 18-foot-deep trench – the man had been in the trench when an accident happened – the man appeared to have a back injury and they didn’t want to aggravate it, so they decided to lift him out carefully – the worker was secured and lifted out to a waiting ambulance, then taken to the hospital – injuries don’t appear to be life-threatening – rescue took about 60 minutes) WORKZONE City worker injured in S. Fairmount hit-and-run (a city employee, 38, suffered a minor injury in a hit-and-run accident – the fleet services worker was sitting in a truck waiting for co-workers to arrive so they could fill potholes at about 3 a.m. when a black sport utility vehicle rear-ended the truck and kept going) FATAL COLLAPSE Death toll from hospital collapse rises to 11 (the death toll from an accident at a Hospital rose to 11 after another worker succumbed to his injuries – a concrete beam connecting two buildings at the hospital collapsed and fell on workers who were constructing an annex – the accident killed a total of 11 people and injured 18 others – officials blamed the collapse on soil subsidence under the elevator chute) FALL from BRIDGE New Jersey Worker Hospitalized After Fall Off Bridge (a construction worker, 29, was hospitalized after he fell off a bridge around 9:30 a.m. as workers were doing preparatory work for a major rehabilitation project – the crews were installing temporary shielding meant to catch falling tools or bridge debris – he fell about 20 feet and apparently landed on his feet on a ramp leading to the skyway, which was closed at the time – he was in an “extreme amount of pain” after his fall but did not suffer any broken bones) FATAL FALL from SCAFFOLDING Gentoo contractor dies in fall from roof (roofer, 23, has died after falling from scaffolding – he was flown by air ambulance to an Infirmary in what was described as a “serious” condition – the worker died in hospital) FALLING SCAFFOLDING BOARD FATALITY Worker dies after being hit by plank (a labourer, 31, died in a worksite accident – he was working in an under construction building when the incident happened at around 11.30am – he was on the ground floor when a wooden plank attached to scaffolding 25 metres high fell on top of his head – inspection and labour unions director told the GDN the worker would have survived if he had worn a helmet) FALL from PLATFORM Construction worker hurt after falling 10 feet on platform (a construction worker fell about 10 feet and broke his ankle while working on a platform about five stories in the air – worker was awake and alert when he was taken to a Hospital) HOTWORK Welding Sparks To Blame In West Dallas Development Fire (a 2-alarm fire ripped through part of a development project around 4:00 p.m. – the development is retail shops and apartments in the area – the commercial building was under construction at the time of the fire – the cause of the blaze was attributed to workers who were welding inside the structure – a spark from the welding is believe to have been picked up by the wind and landed on combustible materials, igniting – fire took about an hour to put out with roughly 40 first-responders at the scene) Miscellaneous FATAL FALL from LADDER w/ ELECTRICAL Worker dies from fall inside Nordstrom in downtown Spokane (employee, 52, died after falling from a ladder while doing maintenance inside the store – he died from multiple fractures to his head and also sustained a contact electrical burn to his left wrist – police officers who originally responded to the fall thought he’d been electrocuted) |
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