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2014 Fatality Tracker
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INDUSTRIAL Welder killed at West Carrollton recycling facility (worker, 33, was killed as the result of industrial accident around 3:30 p.m. – investigators have not released any details about the accident – he was a welder at the facility) Fall River police say ABC Disposal worker trapped by trash truck control arm was transported to RI Hospital (worker was hurt this week in an industrial accident around 7:45 a.m. – the worker was pinned between the frame of a garbage truck and the control arm that rotates from the front to the top of the vehicle – emergency responders used a hydraulic lift to raise to lift the arm and free the worker) FORKLIFT Police: Forklift tips over worker at Parma company (dispatch says they received a report of a forklift tipping over an employee at the business – employee has been taken to a Medical Center, but the extent of his injuries is not yet known) POLE SNAPS w/ FALL Comcast worker hurt when pole snaps (a cable company employee was injured when he fell after the utility pole he was working with snapped – the cable employee’s ladder was leaning against the pole when it broke near its base at about 6:40 p.m. – cable employee possibly received an electrical shock from power lines as well as injuries from the fall) Worker killed in accident at candy plant in Va. (police are investigating a fatal accident at a candy plant – a worker, 50, died from injuries suffered in what appeared to be an industrial accident) FATAL FALL Worker dies at nuclear facility in E. Tenn. (a worker died after falling at a nuclear processing facility – company specializes in recycling, processing and disposal of nuclear material – the employee fell into a vault where radioactive resins are unloaded before they are taken to be processed for disposal – he was taken to a hospital, where he died from his injuries) FATAL HOTWORK EXPLOSION Welder killed in explosion (worker, 28, died after an explosion at his workplace – he was welding when the accident occurred) LOADING DOCK FATALITY Worker killed at Baltimore loading dock after machinery falls (a man has died after a piece of machinery fell on him at the loading dock of the building – he was pronounced dead at the scene) Worker seriously injured at Mini plant in Cowley (worker, 54, was seriously injured at a factory – he is employed by one of the plant’s on-site contractors and was taken to a Hospital – his legs were crushed) RAILROAD FATALITY Woman identified who died Wednesday after being pinned between train cars (a railroad accident killed a 42-year-old woman who was identified as a conductor for the Railway – she died after being caught between two train cars at 12:30 p.m. – the train was moving at the time of the accident, but no other details were released – she died at the scene) COM DUST EXPLOSION Explosion leaves three injured at Burns Lake mill (three people are in hospital following an explosion and fire at a wood pellet plant – blast happened at about 8 a.m., originating inside a piece of equipment used to dry fibre – three workers suffered serious, but non-life-threatening injuries) FATAL FALL from BUCKET TRUCK Worker dies in fall from bucket lift in southeastern Pennsylvania (a man working from a bucket lift of a utility truck fell to his death while working near a power line – he was working when he fell about 50 feet at about 7:30 a.m. – he was a private contractor with a power company) OIL RIG FATALITY Worker dies in oil rig accident in Southwest Mississippi (worker, 22, has died on an oil rig while he was working on the rig – he was struck by a pipe about 9:30 p.m. – he was taken by private vehicle to a Medical Center where he was pronounced dead) FORKLIFT Postal employee taken to hospital after forklift accident (a postal employee at the main U.S. Post Office was taken to a Hospital after a forklift he was operating accidentally struck a support beam inside the facility – he was taken to a Hospital with injuries that did not appear to be serious) MINE FATALITY Worker dies in rock collapse at SE Ken. mine (miner, 31, has died in a mining accident just after 6:30 p.m. – he was attempting to retrieve a broken chain in a 68-foot hole when he was hit by a rock – it is the first mining-related death in Kentucky this year) LOTO FATALITY West Point Kia plant resumes operations following worker death (at 11:10 a.m. police and fire departments responded to an industrial accident at the plant – worker, 57, was found dead at the scene – the victim worked in maintenance in the stamping department and was crushed to death by a stamping machine) FATAL FALL @ POWER PLANT Worker falls to death at Kahramanmaraş thermal power plant (a worker, 39, was killed after falling 12 meters at ta thermal power plant building – the accident occurred in the morning as workers were preparing for a shift change – eyewitnesses said a foreman lost his balance and struck a concrete floor from 12 meters above – he died at the scene – he had reportedly been working at the power plant for 10 years) FLASH FIRE OSHA investigates fire that burned 2 employees at Wagner Equipment in Aurora last week (a fire burned two workers at a heavy equipment dealership – initial reports indicated employees were power washing a floor when a heater ignited fumes from the cleaning chemicals being used – two workers were transported to the hospital with burns) FLAMMABLE LIQUID FIRE Man suffers chemical burns at Maryville business (worker was sent to to the hospital after suffering burns – he was using alcohol to melt plastic when the alcohol caught on fire – another worker used a fire extinguisher to try to put out the fire – he was also transported because medical personnel were concerned he had inhaled chemicals from the extinguisher) FATAL HOTWORK EXPLOSION cutting on drum Worker using torch killed in Moncks Corner blast (worker, 33, has died after an explosion as he cut a barrel with a torch around 8:45 a.m. at Scrap Metal business – he was cutting off the top of a barrel that once contained flammable liquid when the explosion happened) HOTWORK EXPLOSION ‘One enormous boom’: Worker hurt in explosion at Husky Energy site near Hardisty (an empty oil tank caught fire and one man was being treated at a hospital after an explosion – the fire began while a local welding subcontractor was working on an empty oil tank at the facility – workers were evacuated after flames erupted in one tank – flames were contained inside the tank, and extinguished about 6 p.m.) FATAL EXPLOSION Blast in Tarapur pharma firm kills 2, injures 3 (a series of blasts in the chemical reactors of a pharmaceutical company killed two persons and critically injured three – no word on cause) FATAL OXYGEN EXPLOSION Worker killed in oxygen pipeline explosion at factory (worker, 50, was killed when an oxygen pipeline exploded at a factory – occurred when the victim was opening a valve of the pipeline) HOTWORK FATAL EXPLOSION Welder, 1 other die in Misau fire accident (a welder and a staff member of the Water Board, lost their lives in a fire explosion, which occurred at the office of the water board – the explosion occurred when the technician was said to be welding a leaking tank on the premises, which was said to have suddenly exploded leading to an inferno which gutted a section of the water board building) ACETYLENE CYLINDER FIRE Business evacuated due to acetylene bottle fire (a fire caused the building to evacuate around 8:26 a.m. – firefighters discovered a small acetylene bottle on fire inside of a garage-style workshop – employees were preparing to heat metal using an acetylene torch – once they saw flames coming from the top of the bottle, they decided to evacuate the building – firefighters determined it was safer to allow the bottle to burn off, and the fire was contained to the bottle – there were no injuries) REFINERY FIRE No injuries, off-site impact from fire at Placid Refineries in Port Allen (a small fire that broke out in the crude unit had no off-site impact and minimal damage has been reported – fire broke out around 5:15 p.m. at the refinery – it took less than 30 minutes for the on-site fire brigade to put out the fire – there were no injuries reported in the fire – no word on what caused the fire) FINGER INJURY Nestlé employee injured in accident at York plant (an industrial accident injured an employee – employee suffering an injury to the tip of their index finger) EXPLOSION Moonachie factory explosion that injured four under control (explosion at a foam plant injured four workers – Police Department issued a reverse 911 call to residents, warning them to shut their windows after the blast – Hazardous Materials team determined no hazardous materials were released into the air or building in the explosion, and residents were able to open their windows by 7 p.m. – the machine that exploded combines hydrogen and oxygen to make a foam used by industries as a filter – cause of the explosion is under investigation – 17 employees inside the plant at the time of the 4:30 p.m. explosion all evacuated on their own – four were treated at a Medical Center for minor injuries after suffering blows to the head – the rest underwent decontamination by the hazardous materials team and sent home) AMMONIA 5 exposed to ammonia leak at frozen-food warehouse (five people were exposed to ammonia from a leak at a frozen-food warehouse – Hazmat teams were able to cap the leak – Hazmat teams were continuing to monitor the ammonia levels in the building before letting people back inside) AMMONIA No danger from ammonia leak at dairy (an ammonia leak from a 225-kilogram rooftop tank at a Dairy was stopped before firefighters arrived – workers were able to close the valve to the tank – about 22 kilograms leaked out – there were no injuries, nor any damage to the building) AMMONIA Ammonia leak reported at East Jackson plant (emergency responders were called to the scene after receiving reports of an ammonia leak – workers were able to shut off a valve, and at that point we had another leak into a secondary, and they’re not sure of the potential cause of that secondary leak – the leak started in the rear of the building and that the area had to be evacuated – the leak was contained around 9:05 a.m. – no injuries have been reported, and it is unclear what caused the leak) CHLORINE Chlorine leak at USF campus (fire Rescue units, including the HAZMAT team, are on site at the water treatment plant responding to a chlorine leak inside the facility – no classrooms or dorms have been evacuated as they are not near the site of the leak – HAZMAT team has entered the building containing the chlorine leak and verified that the automated system had worked properly to prevent further leakage – no injuries reported) CHLORINE DIOXIDE Power outage leads to chlorine dioxide leak, evacuation at Wauna Mill (paper mill was evacuated after a power failure led to a spill of hazardous chlorine dioxide – no injuries were reported – a transmission line problem cut power to the mill around 8:15 a.m. – it was not immediately clear why the power outage cause the chlorine dioxide leak and where in the plant it occurred – chlorine dioxide is used as a bleaching agent in pulp mills – mill’s emergency response team monitored the site and never measured more than trace amounts) CONSTRUCTION ELECTROCUTION Texas worker dies after electrocution at school (a contractor has died after being electrocuted while working on a light pole at a school – he was taken from an unidentified school to an area hospital where he later died – the contractor was working on lighting outside the building when he was injured) One Dead, 7 Injured in Construction Accident (one worker was killed and seven others injured when a cargo lift collapsed – the workers were traveling in a freight carrier designed for lifting construction materials when the rope supporting the structure snapped – the seven surviving workers were transported to a hospital with varying degrees of injuries) UPDATE now a WORKZONE FATALITY Construction worker killed following semi truck crash into Ohio work zone (a construction worker, 40, who was badly injured in a work zone crash has died nearly a month after the accident – he died Monday night from injuries sustained after he was struck by a semi truck on September 19 – the driver of the semi truck fell asleep and crashed into a work zone – the truck first struck a lighted work zone sign before striking the worker) FATAL FALL Workers fall from 3rd storey (preliminary findings indicate that three workers were working on a platform installed over a stairwell when it collapsed, causing them to fall from the third storey – paramedics pronounced one worker, 28, dead at the scene) FATAL FALL from CEMENT TRUCK Fall from truck fatal to worker at cement plant (worker, 66, lost his life on the job around 11:30 a.m. at a Cement Company – he had just loaded a truck with cement powder and was blowing the excess powder off the top when he lost his footing and fell – he struck his head and died at the scene) SAW Worker cut by saw near Stanton (construction worker was hurt in an accident with a saw about 11 a.m. – it wasn’t immediately clear what happened, but the saw cut the man on his upper body – co-workers applied a tourniquet before first responders arrived – he was taken in critical condition to a Hospital) WORKZONE FATALITY Highway worker dies in northeast Nebraska accident (worker, 55, has been killed while working on a highway project – the accident occurred around 7:25 p.m. – the worker was struck by a vehicle – accident is being investigated) DEMO Construction worker injured after Kansas City house collapse (a construction worker was injured after a house collapsed – a part of the front porch roof collapsed about 1:30 p.m. during a planned demolition while a worker was still on the porch -worker who was hurt suffered minor injuries to his leg – company said they won’t know exactly how the accident happened until they speak with the workers) MOBILE EQUIPMENT FATALITY Construction worker killed in accident near Correctionville (a construction worker was killed after he was pinned under a piece of equipment about 1 p.m. – when officers arrived they found the victim pinned under a piece of construction equipment while emergency personnel tended to him – an air ambulance was called to take the injured man to a Medical Center, but he died before the helicopter arrived – construction crews are building a new bridge) ELECTROCUTION w/ LADDER 3 workers electrocuted in N.L. industrial accident (two men are dead and another person is injured after they somehow came into contact with electricity – do not know how the workers came into contact with the electricity – the workers were believed to have been moving an aluminum ladder and there was mist and rain at the time of the accident – do not know what injuries the surviving worker suffered) AERIAL LIFT FATALITIES Three workers fall to their death as skylift crashes (three workers fell to their death after a hydraulic skylift they were using to fix streetlights crashed – workers fell from a height of 22 metres and sustained major injuries on the head, chest and legs – they died on way to hospital – the machine is eight months old and was in proper order) HOTWORK Update: Four-alarm blaze at Sylvan Thirty lofts caused by welding, same as March fire (investigators determined the cause of the four-alarm fire was accidental, started by welding within the walls of a residential unit – the March fire, which destroyed one building, was also ruled an accident due to welding – out of 200 units only 10 sustained some damage – no injuries were reported – it’s the second fire at the $50 million development) TRENCH Man rescued in Wright State trench collapse (worker was rescued from the trench and was airlifted to a Hospital – he is expected to be OK – he was doing contractor work on a sewer line – he was standing in a trench when something collapsed beneath him) MISCELLANEOUS WORKZONE Town worker struck by car in Webster (a public works employee was hit by a car today while performing routine maintenance on the water system that required him to be in the roadway – worker sustained injuries that are not life-threatening about 9:15 a.m.) HAUNTED ATTRACTION FATALITY Teen worker dies in accident at Hauser corn maze (a teenager, 18, was killed after being run over by a bus at a Corn Maze – he was performing his role as a zombie for the new “Zombie Slayer Paintball Bus” attraction around 10:30 p.m. when he emerged from the corn maze and stumbled as he ran toward the bus, which was moving forward at a slow speed – he fell forward and landed directly in front of the passenger side rear tires of the bus and was immediately run over – he was killed instantly) CRUSHING FATALITY Worker dies in accident at school (school employee was fatally injured as a result of an accident at the school just before noon – the transportation director, 45, for the school district was trapped under a vehicle at about 11:45 a.m. and was pronounced dead at 12:40 p.m. at a Hospital) CATASTROPHIC FAILURE of BEER KEG Man’s arm severed in beer keg explosion (a bar worker, 23, is struggling to comprehend losing part of his arm after a beer keg exploded – he was releasing air from a keg in a cool room – the keg exploded and he was rushed to a Hospital – no word on cause) HOTWORK Welder ignites hay in Pocatello shed (according to fire officials, a worker was welding on the roof of a shed and some of the sparks fell into some hay in the shed and ignited – employee began pulling the smoldering hay out of the shed with a tractor so that firefighters could douse it with water – no one was injured and minimal damage was done to the structure) BATTERIES off gasing Two TCL employees hospitalized following gas leak (a battery leak sent two employees to the emergency room at 7:01 a.m. -found no evidence of explosive gases, but air monitoring equipment detected hydrogen-cyanide and carbon-monoxide in the closet of the welding shop – firefighters discovered batteries in a closet that were releasing the potentially harmful gases and shut down the affected buildings and ventilated them) |
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