My neighbor works in a misc. metal fab shop. He was working a hydraulic press to bend steel. He was complacent and tired and made a mistake by positioning his finger too close to the press while bending a small piece of steel. He has insurance but had to go to Maricopa County Hospital for…...
On August 30, 2003 a mobile equipment operator was injured while working at a surface coal mine. The miner was operating a Hitachi hydraulic shovel when a 35-foot wide by 35-foot high section of the highwall toppled onto the operator’s cab, pinning him inside. The victim was removed from the shovel and transported to a hospital where…...
When you read the below, it is a success story for two people. We don’t always hear these. If you have these stories, let’s share them with each other and if we have people who take the extra step to protect human lives, let’s recognize them also, not for taking chances, but for working safely…...
A non fatal accident occurred recently where a contract employee was performing maintenance on an operating chemical fluid pump, mounted under a Mack delivery truck, when he became entangled in the P. T. O. shaft. The injury resulted in a compound fracture of the humerus bone with avulsions of the muscle tissue of the left…...
Two mechanics, traveling in separate trucks went to the dragline to trouble shoot a problem with the dragline. This required them to drive around the front of the dragline beneath the boom fairleads and along the edge of the spoil embankment. Because of the dragline’s location near the embankment edge, the dragline operator had to…...
Translated from Portuguese using Google…. One worker died and another was seriously injured after a crash from height of 15 meters. The accident occurred around 12pm on Saturday, in a work which is located on the banks of the BR-158. The men were working at a height of approximately 15 feet when dropped. The worker,…...
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Dear Bryan I am Technical Safety Council, send to you report died Accident. My name, Nicolau Bello – Sorocaba/SP/ Brazil On 06 June, to 8.30 h, it happened a fatal accident in the Plant of NONONO, in Brazil. The victim, a worker of NONONO (ABB), it…...
Dear Sirs I’m a Brazilian safety technician and would like to say that my safety training quality has been very much improved with the assistance of your great site! I want to participate by sending you photos of a fatal accident (electrocution) that took place…...
Brian, These photos were taken in Colorado. What happened is the truck was improperly loaded at the quarry (the left side was much heavier than the right side.) When the truck got to the jobsite and tilted the bed up, the extra weight on the left side caused the supports…...
Hi Bryan, These two incidents occurred in two separate coal mines in central XXXXXXXX just over 12 months ago. The first of the two is the result of when people do not park in designated parking areas. This incident occurred at night when the driver of the Toyota Troop Carrier…...
Date: 12/20/02 What Happened? Crew completed running 3 1/2 tubing in the well and was in the process of stripping off the BOPE (Stotler). The crew stripped the BOP up off the wellhead and installed slips under the stotler. The stotler remained on the stup in the slips. Crew worker unlatched the tubing…...
