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Category: Industrial Accident Alerts

Published: 03 September 2010

Industrial Accidents #1

updated on 05/06/2010

Offshore worker dies in accident (an offshore worker, 59, died and another was injured following an accident on board a support vessel - was killed while working in the cargo tanks)

Delta man dies in mine accident (accident occurred when the worker, 26, went to an area where supplies are stored to get some wire screen that is used for roof support to keep small materials from falling on miners - when he cut the metal band securing the screen material to the mine wall to get a portion of it, the whole bundle fell on him)

Fuel fire sends worker to hospital (a worker suffered second- and third-degree burns in a fuel tanker fire - the man was apparently filling a stationary diesel tank from a truck when the fuel caught fire and spilled - about 500 gallons of fuel were burned - the cause of the fire is under investigation)

Local Man Killed In AEP Explosion (investigators are trying to determine what caused an explosion that killed a man and injured nine others at a coal-burning power plant - the explosion killed 61-year-old truck driver who was delivering pressurized hydrogen - he was unloading hydrogen into cylinders -

Electrical Contractor Shocked (an electrical contractor suffered a shock and reportedly caught fire -vworker apparently touched a high-voltage line, but there's no information about just how powerful the shock was - investigators are on the scene)

Tybee worker hospitalized after gas leak (a Water and Sewer Department employee is in serious condition after getting sprayed with chlorine gas at the city's water and sewer plant - he was changing a chlorine tank at the plant shortly before 9:30 a.m. when some of the gas began to leak)

Dalton Fire Claims One Man's Life (a fire broke out at a recycling plant, and it has been confirmed one worker didn't make it out alive - he was working the nightshift when a fire broke out - firefighters are still watching hotspots in the fire that left one man dead -firefighters were able to enter the building late Saturday night and found the body)

Fifteen dead in DRC mine collapse (link issues)

Three injured in El Palito accident, no force majeure (an accident at the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit  has left three contract workers injured - one of the injured suffered burns to 70% of his body - the second suffered first-degree burns and the third was treated and released from the hospital)

Hess Corporation Port Reading Refinery Temporarily Shut Down (a small fire in a pump occurred - the fire was quickly extinguished by plant personnel and there were no injuries - the refinery has been temporarily shut down while inspections and repairs are performed)

Workers return after ammonia leak evacuation (fire fighters evacuated 160 people for about an hour following an ammonia leak in an industrial area - leak was reported from a produce processing plant - an ammonia tank apparently was overfilled at the processing plant, causing the tank's relief valve to release ammonia into the air)

Small machine fire in sister plant (no details)

Chemical cloud creates a scare (a chemical leak that originated from a tanker truck at the plant gave the city quite a scare - the leak took place at about 1:45 p.m., apparently from a faulty valve on the truck - no serious injuries were reported although three plant employees were taken to the hospital and 14 others received medical treatment - the thick white smoke was determined to be the combination of water vapor and the chemical ethylenediamine - 27 employees were decontaminated at the site - the cause of the chemical leak from the 4,000-gallon tanker truck may have been from a malfunction on the tank as employees were trying to unload the contents into a storage tank)

Cooling units at plant catch fire (two giant cooling units caught fire at a local industrial plant causing $100,000 in damages - firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze in 30 minutes - no buildings were damaged during the fire and there were no injuries - the cause of the fire is under investigation)

UPDATE Tyson Decides Against Rebuilding Fire-Damaged Heflin Plant

UPDATE Filtervac International Inc. fined $90,000 for health and safety ... (a worker was using a large forklift truck to move a fabric bag containing clay that had been removed from filter cylinders when the forklift tipped over onto the driver's side. The worker jumped off the forklift and tried to outrun it as it tipped, but was unable to get clear of the equipment and was struck on the head by the forklift's "roll cage" (a structure that protects a forklift operator from being crushed if the forklift rolls over) and pinned under the cage. Co-workers attempted to lift the forklift off the worker using another forklift while waiting for emergency officials to arrive, but the worker died)

Ironworker killed by falling metal plate (aman working as a dry dock ironworker was struck and killed by a 6,000-pound metal plate that fell from a crane at a shipyard - the 40-foot-by-80-foot plate somehow came loose from a crane on a fuel barge and landed on the ironworker)

Worker dies after becoming pinned by machinery at paper plant (a paper mill worker, 49, has died after becoming pinned by machinery - he was doing maintenance at the plant when he became pinned between the bucket and front of a skid steer - no other details)

Tyson worker dies at Emporia plant (a male employee at the plant died after he suffered an undisclosed injury - the employee walked into the plant's health services department at about 5:30 p.m. and reported that he suffered an injury while preparing an animal for slaughter - the man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead)

CONFINED SPACE FATALITY!!! Alang worker found dead in ship tank; ‘may be gas leak’ (the body of one labourer was recovered after he drowned to death inside a water-filled bottom tank of a vessel beached at the ship-breaking yard - police expressed fears of a rise in toll as some labourers were still missing - preliminary reports indicated that the labourer fell to the bottom due to some accident, probably gas leakage)

Toxic leak: Worker fighting for life (a worker was left fighting for his life following a toxic leak at a chemical plant - the worker remains critical but stable following the leak at the plant which left a total of 37 people needing medical treatment - 20 of the casualties were treated at the scene, with 16 being taken to Hospital - of those hospitalised, 14 have been discharged - the injuries occurred when 4.5 tonnes of the toxic chemical hexamethlyenediamine (HMD) leaked - about 4.5 tonnes of HMD leaked from a tank - an investigation is under way to establish the cause)

Worker dies in steel plant accident (a worker has died at a steel plant after becoming trapped underneath a sheet of metal - the man, thought to be aged in his 20s, is believed to have been working as a sub-contractor)

Blast rocks Franklin tire plant (an air and steam chamber exploded and shot across the work floor and through a garage door - a worker was injured, and there was much damage to the building - workers were on break shortly past noon when an alarm was heard in the facility's 100-by-60-foot steel-frame warehouse and retreading center - one worker went into the room to assess the situation when the facility's high-pressure metal autoclave and curing chamber exploded - the large metal object, resembling the shape of a hot-water heater, was situated nearly in the middle of the warehouse area when an end cap shot into one wall and the rest of the machine hurtled approximately 75 feet through a garage door and into the parking lot - awesome photo @ link)

South Texas plant employee dies after inhaling hydrogen fluoride (a man has died after inhaling hydrogen fluoride gas while working - he came in contact with the gas while working in the area of the plant that makes aluminum fluoride, which is used in the production of aluminum - preliminary investigation indicates that the exposure happened as he worked near a valve)

Ammonia leak at Round Rock company sends 2 employees to hospital (two employees of a frozen-food company were taken to a Medical Center after an ammonia leak was detected at the building - a minor leak in a product freezer in the production area - was contained at about 12:30 a.m. - the employees reported breathing difficulties and were released from the hospital)

Fire at refinery sends 1 to hospital (two small explosions and fire at the refinery injured one person - the fire was extinguished within 20 minutes of the call reporting the incident - the injured individual, a refinery employee working near the site of the fire, was treated for "minor cuts and bruises" - explosion and fire originated in a unit that the refinery uses to separate fuels and oil from waste water before sending it downstream)

Fire hot spots all out at Tegal chicken processing plant (no details)

WELDING IN A CONFINED SPACE ACCIDENT!!! Workers escape safely from fire in gasoline storage tank (three workers escaped safely when fire broke out in an empty, 1.5 million-gallon gasoline storage tank where they were doing maintenance - workers were using cutting torches and accidentally ignited a small pocket of unleaded gasoline that had been unnoticed - after getting out of the tank, the workers went back in and put out most of the blaze with dry-chemical fire extinguishers)

Chemical leak evacuates plant (an ammonia leak at a poultry processing plant forced the evacuation of the facility and nearby residences and businesses - a malfunction of a valve stem on a tank located in the facility caused the leak)

Belt catches fire at Federal Mogul (a belt used in one of the plant's processes caught fire, requiring firefighters to use a dry chemical to put it out - belt gets extremely hot and sometimes it catches fire)

Man injured in fall at work - sent in by subscriber and I could not find a working link to the original article (worker,54, was standing on a pallet on a raised forklift when the accident happened at about 1:30 p.m. - he was loading boxes onto a shelving unit when he stepped off of the pallet - he fell and struck his head - he was badly injured)

Hazmat Called to Chemical Plant (someone mixed an acid and a base together, and that released nitrogen oxide into the air from a plant smokestack - there were some evacuations, primarily from businesses across the street - no one was injured)

1 injured in explosion at Electric Boat laboratory (one worker was injured when a methane gas leak caused an explosion - the explosion occurred at 1:20 p.m. in a small chemistry laboratory, where the fire alarm and sprinkler system were activated immediately)

Ammonia drum leaks at ice plant; worker hospitalized for inhalation (a worker at an ice plant had to be hospitalized when a massive drum sprung a leak and the employee inhaled poisonous ammonia fumes - a 3,000 gallon drum of the poisonous liquid sprung a leak)

Feds probe death of crushed worker (laborer died a horrible death on a cold night, his waist and legs crushed under a massive steel boiler door - the circumstances leading up to his death, including a botched attempt to save him are now the subject of a federal investigation - the 3,000-pound door fell as a handful of workers were trying to remove it from a boiler at a utility plant - it slammed down on top of the 38-year-old father, crushing his lower torso and legs and pinning him to the floor)

CONFINED SPACE FATALITY A WORKER was crushed to death at a cement works yesterday. (a worker was crushed to death at a cement works - three other men were injured when a block of concrete crashed to the ground inside a kiln - they were doing routine maintenance at the site - a spokesman said the men were wearing protective equipment and a safety check had been carried out half an hour before)

Worker killed in steel-mill accident (contractor died on the job at the mill, died from massive head injuries after he was struck by a train - company provides on-site mill services - no other details yet)

Worker escapes major injury (an explosion has left a maintenance worker with burns to his right arm - but police say the incident could have easily proven tragic - the worker was changing a propane cylinder on propane-powered torch in the maintenance room when the explosion occurred - the cause of the accident is being investigated, and none of the residence's 46 residents were injured or had been evacuated - the explosion knocked the steel door of the room off its hinges but, fortunately, was directed away from the worker)

LOCK IT OUT!!! Santa Maria Man Killed in Industrial Accident (a man is dead after a tragic industrial accident - incident happened at an oil company - co-workers of the victim say he was a single father of an 8-year-old child and had worked for the company for several years - officers from the County Sheriff's Department were called to the business just before noon today after reports came in that a man had been struck in the head and decapitated - investigations determined the victim was attempting to change a belt on one of the oil pumping units when the accident occurred - an oil worker was working on one of the oil rigs and somehow got caught up in the machinery there in what appeared to be an industrial accident and he died at the scene)

Railroad Worker Dies In Sioux City Railyard (a railroad worker is dead, after being struck by a rail car - while few details about the person involved in this fatal accident are being released yet, a spokesperson says crews were sorting rail cars by destination, when a 57 year-old worker was struck by one of those cars - it happened about one this afternoon in the rail yard - a full investigation is underway)

Dimex worker injured on job (a 36-year-old man was injured in an early morning accident - the man became entangled in a piece of equipment - the man’s arm was caught when the rescue squad arrived)

Sanitation worker critical after falling off of vehicle (a garbage company employee was injured when he was thrown from the back of his truck - was taken to Regional Trauma Center with head, chest and ankle injuries - was listed in critical condition - the accident occurred about 9:55 a.m. when the truck swerved to avoid a collision with another pickup truck - the garbage truck went onto a small bank - there was no contact between the vehicles - at some point, he was thrown off the truck - there are no marks on the telephone pole - one of the few pieces of physical evidence investigators had was the right side tire tracks of the garbage truck imprinted in the mud of the bank)

Power-line accident kills man in St. Joseph (one construction worker was killed and another was seriously injured after metal poles they were moving at a house touched a low-hanging power line - worker, 20, died in the accident - he was pronounced dead at a hospital - worker, 23, was injured trying to help his co-worker - witnesses said the accident victims were at the side of the home disassembling metal scaffolding - the owners of two construction companies involved were later arrested for operating without a license)

UPDATE Tyson employee in Holcomb killed in on-the-job incident (an accident at the plant has claimed the life of an employee - since October, he's the second worker in Kansas to lose his life from an on-the-job incident - worker, 56, a cleanup worker at the meatpacking plant, died from the injuries he sustained in the Dec. 12 accident - accident occurred in a rendering area after a forklift heading up a ramp slid or rolled backwards down the incline and rammed into a pair of double doors - he was on the opposite side of the doors, and when the forklift struck them, they opened, hitting the man in the face and causing head injuries)

WORKER HURT ARM (the worker suffered bruising and a laceration on his arm that required stitches - he was one of two workers hurt at the plant - the other worker suffered a hand injury)

Female worker, 31, killed in accident at factory (a 31-year-old woman has been killed in an industrial accident at a cabinet-making factory - the woman was operating an industrial router when the bit disintegrated and a piece hit her in the chest)

Worker's Arm Cut Off In Concrete Plant Accident (the victim was working when his arm got caught in a machine - the limb was severed from his body - paramedics stabilized the man and recovered his lost arm - fire rescue officials said they rushed him to General Medical Center's trauma center)

One dies in gas line accident (worker, 27, an apprentice lineman died from injuries he sustained after a trencher he was operating hit a high pressure natural gas line - he was part of a three-man crew running primary service to a home - the other linemen were not injured - the blast left a crater more than 10 feet deep and 75 feet wide - it was determined that a contract worker punctured a two-food wide natural gas line - company is investigating whether the ruptured pipeline was marked - as gas flowed out, it spewed a plume of dirt and debris hundreds of feet into the air - a dozen homes in the area were evacuated with the assistance of fire and police personnel)

ARC FLASH Fires burn sheds in Davenport; area worker suffers flash burns (an electrical contractor suffered burns to his face while working on a transformer - man received some second-degree flash burns when there was an arc in the electric power while he was working on the transformer)

Oilpatch worker crushed to death (worker, 46, was pinned under a tractor after it rolled while he was trying to drive it off of a flatbed truck)

Utility worker electrocuted in Greenville County (worker, 43, was working on a pole when he touched a live wire and fell to the ground)

Explosion rocks Carolina Polymers plant (all employees were evacuated and there were no injuries - vapors ignited an explosion that blew out panels on the building that were specifically designed to dissipate the impact of an explosion)

Transformer explosion injures 4 (link issues)

Fumes kill 3 tilers in container (three workmates were found dead on a building site after apparently being poisoned by fumes in a shipping container - a generator found with the tilers is thought to have given off deadly carbon monoxide as they used it to heat the freezing steel unit through the night - a builder who opened up the container when he arrived for work found the bodies - it is thought the men — in their late twenties or early thirties — were trying to save money for Christmas by kipping there rather than splashing out for digs)

Worker survives 7200-volt shock (a cable worker escaped serious injury after touching a 7,200-volt power line with his head - the 28-year-old worker was pulling cable lines from a bucket truck when his head touched the line - the shock entered his head and went through his right thigh into the bucket - worker stayed conscious and was able to lower the bucket back to the ground)

Damage hits $300k in City Hall fire (a spark from a welder’s torch smoldered for hours, touching off a two alarm blaze that caused $300,000 in damage to part of City Hall - welder reportedly noticed an errant spark land on flammable material around 2:30 p.m. and splashed water in the general area in an attempt to extinguish it - he later left the job site, unaware that it continued to smolder - it wasn’t until midnight that a motorist on Interstate 15 saw smoke in the area and alerted authorities - about the same time, the fire alarm sounded for a water flow, and four sprinkler heads activated and basically saved the structure)

Spark starts fire that blocks city artery (a welding accident in a panel-beating workshop sparked a ferocious fire that closed a busy city thoroughfare in both directions - it was "amazing" how quickly the workshop went up in flames, forcing him to run for safety as paint cans exploded - "Me, my son and nephew were MIG-welding in the spray booth and a little inch of flame started with a spark on the exhaust outlet," - "By the time we had grabbed a bucket of water and hose the whole exhaust stack was on flames, and the rest is history. "I was trying to put it out, but with all the smoke and the fumes if I'd stayed another five minutes I'd be dead by now.")

Chemical plant blast kills 3 in Gansu (at least three people were killed in an explosion accident at a chemical plant - accident occurred at around 9:00 am at an explosives storage facility - accident killed at least three people, while the number of the injured is still being calculated)

Acidic water spills at Agrium Inc. plant (enough acid-laced water to fill more than five Olympic-sized swimming pools breached a berm at a fertilizer manufacturer, inundating a nearby farmer's field - no injuries were reported - the 3.5 million gallons of acidic water that gushed over the protective berm surrounding a 20- to 30-foot-high storage area -- called a "gypsum stack" -- is used to turn ore from the nearby mine into phosphoric acid - it was unclear why the berm failed)

Giant: Fire shuts down Ciniza refinery (the fire was in a heater used within a unit that makes ultra low sulfur diesel - no other details)

Eight treated after chemical exposure (Eight people were treated at local hospitals following exposure to a diluted bleach solution - employees were evacuated after a release of a diluted sodium hypochlorite 7 (15%) household bleach - the bleach solution was being off loaded from an underground pit and into a tanker to be hauled away for disposal - seven people were transported by ambulance to area hospitals - one person was transported to a hospital by personal vehicle - all were treated and released)

Ammonia Leak At Tyson Plant Prompts Evacuation (an ammonia leak caused several hundred people to evacuate a business - few details have been released - it appeared several people were transported to the hospital with unknown injuries - about 200 people were working in the building at the time of the evacuation - source of the ammonia leak is still under investigation)

Workers evacuate Howard chemical plant (employees evacuated a business after natural gas escaped during boiler maintenance - gas was released through a pressure-relief valve in the building's natural gas feeder system - workers were performing boiler maintenance and had re-pressurized the gas line just before the telltale natural gas additive smell was noticed - workers evacuated the plant, shut off the gas service to the building and called the fire department)

Fire at Seaford Nylon Plant (according to plant officials, shortly after noon, excessive smoke was noticed coming out of one of the plant's smokestacks - officials learned that a firebox that heats the chemical Dowtherm-A- used in nylon production- began to overheat - safety concerns prompted plant officials to disconnect the firebox's fuel source - the fire has been contained and is in the process of burning itself out -there were no injuries and plant officials say the fire poses no threat to the surrounding community or the environment)

Ammonia leak Causes Workers to Evacuate Plant (an ammonia tank at a dairy that has a capacity for 1,000 gallons leaked - it is unknown how much ammonia leaked from the tank or why)

Three workers at Tesoro refinery treated for chemical exposure (three contract workers at the oil refinery were taken to a hospital to be treated for exposure after a chemical leaked out of a processing unit - the leak occurred about 8:15 p.m. during routine maintenance - a small amount of naptha, which is a component of gasoline, leaked but was quickly contained, and the unit was safely shut down - the three workers exposed to the chemical were taken to a hospital to be examined for exposure)

CONFINED SPACE RESCUE - ENGULFMENT Firefighters Rescue Man Trapped in Grain Bin (a man spent nearly five hours up to his neck in soybeans after a workplace accident left him trapped in a grain bin - the 21-year-old worker and another co-worker were trying to unclog an auger in a grain bin when the hill of soybeans shifted and he was nearly swallowed - firefighters had to cut three holes in the back of the grain bin to let out some of the soybeans and relieve some of the pressure)

Worker dies after fall at Wyo mine (accident is under investigation by MSHA officials - the victim was employed by a construction contracting company - died on Dec. 26 from injuries received in a fall at the mine - no other details)

Workers Injured In Cement Mixer Accident (three workers were injured in an industrial accident at a cement company - men were working when they reportedly got caught in equipment used in making cement - worker didn’t actually fall into the mixer, he was caught in the conveyer belt)

UPDATE Charges filed against employer of electrocuted worker (worker was killed in November 2002 while installing guard rails - the 23-year-old Mio resident was operating a truck with a pile driver when he died - investigators determined that electricity arced between the boom and an overhead power line at the work site - company is charged with six counts of violating state worker-safety standards - prosecutors say the company was cited for a similar incident involving Green three months before the fatal accident)

UPDATE Condition of victim in mill plant explosion improves (worker, 37, was hit by a roiling ball of flames - his co-worker on third shift, was blown out of the mill by the force of the explosions - exact cause of the explosion and the amount of damage are being investigated)

Leaking gas pipe explodes, burns four (a 40-year-old father of two, worked in a local cardboard factory - his neck got caught in a machine and he died instantly)

Explosion at coal mine traps 13 in West Virginia (a coal mine explosion, which may have been sparked by lightning, trapped 13 miners 260 feet below ground - rescuers went in to find them after waiting almost 12 agonizing hours for dangerous gases to clear)

Worker falls into sewerage tank (two employees were working at the tank just after 11 a.m. when one slipped and fell in - the employee fell into about 12 feet of water - injured his knee)

Feed mill burns in Preble village (fire started by hotwork)

Landfill Fire Forces Evacuations (a fire at the Landfill is contained to a one acre area - but the smoke and potential dangers in it have forced the evacuation of four schools and at least 10 families - cause of the fire is still under investigation)

Man found dead in Fond du Lac industrial plant (a 21-year-old man found dead in an industrial plant apparently fell from a crane - Investigators aren't sure how they got in, since the plant was closed and only security guards were supposed to be there - neither man worked at the plant)

Fire at Ainsworth's OSB Plant in Grand Rapids, Minnesota (company is evaluating the impact of a fire that damaged the company's oriented strand board (OSB) manufacturing plant - alert employees reported the fire shortly after 6:00 A.M. local time - all 30 employees on site were immediately evacuated and no injuries were reported - plant's major production equipment did not suffer serious physical damage as a result of the fire, which was generally limited to the wood strand storage area - the full extent of the damage has not yet been determined and may not be known for several days)

Sanitation Worker Run Over By Garbage Truck (a sanitation worker was critically injured when he was run over by a garbage truck - fell from the rear of the truck and the garbage hauler backed over him)

WASTEWATER SPILLS INTO FOUNTAIN CREEK (the spill happened as maintenance crews finished work on a sewer line - officials are calling it an accident and are blaming it on a mechanical failure - workers tried to contain the spill at the nearby wastewater treatment plant)

CL&P worker burned on the job in Granby (a utility worker suffered second and third-degree burns to his fingers while working on overhead wires - the worker was burned when he accidentally came into contact with live wires)

Fire At A Petro Canada Refinery Under Control (a fire that broke out at a Refinery has been kept under control - residents in the area were asked to stay in their homes as firefighters battled the blaze - there are no serious injuries to report. - there was one Firefighter who was treated for smoke inhalation on-site)

30 injured in Argentine factory collapse (a factory workshop collapsed suddenly injuring more than 30 people - the gate of the refrigerator factory toppled over all at once before the whole workshop collapsed - an ammonia pipeline in the factory was destroyed, causing an ammonia leak that injured people living nearby)

OK Foods Evacuated After Ammonia Leak (plant was evacuated and shut down and workers were treated for injuries after a line ruptured in the plant, releasing ammonia - a line had ruptured and was releasing anhydrous ammonia - the plant was immediately evacuated)

Forklift, driver fall into water in accident at fish port (workers at fishing dock panicked when a forklift and its driver fell into the water - worker suffered only bruises but the forklift would have to undergo major repairs -worker might have miscalculated while maneuvering the forklift because of the narrowness of the way)

Portsmouth man killed during tire mishap (a city man was killed after trying to replace a tractor-trailer tire - the tire apparently ruptured so violently, blasting air toward him so hard that colleagues said three layers of clothes were blown off of his chest)

C. Florida water plant blast kills one (an explosion at a water plant killed one person and seriously injured two others - a crew was performing hurricane repairs on the roof of the Water Treatment Plant before the explosion - worker was apparently using a cutting torch when chemicals underneath the roof ignited - one of the patients transported to Medical Center was burned over 100 percent of his body - the other victims had burns to 80 percent of their bodies - police said a worker was using a blowtorch near methanol and sodium sulfate tanks when one of the tanks exploded)

Employee Pinned Between Cars At Honda Plant (when medics arrived, they found a woman pinned between two cars on a conveyor belt - woman worked in the paint department and was trying to move between two car bodies when her clothing was caught, trapping her - complaining of abdominal pain - was trapped for about 10 minutes while coworkers tried to free her)

UPDATE Flooring firm fined for worker accident (a flooring firm has been fined £40,000 for an accident which led to a man being off work for 13 months after his arm was trapped between rollers - worker was injured on December 10 when his fingers and then his arm were dragged into the lip between two rollers on the laminating machine he was operating while he was in the process of feeding a sheet into the rollers)

UPDATE Man admits lying to investigators of fatal mining accident in 2003 (a former foreman for a coal-mining company has admitted to federal charges that he lied to investigators about a co-worker's death in 2003 at a surface coal mine - admitted he falsely told investigators that no one had complained to him about the truck's flawed mechanical condition before the accident, and that if he'd known of such problems he would have sidelined the vehicle -investigators later blamed the accident on the truck's unsafe operating condition, ruling that the truck's brakes were incapable of stopping the loaded truck on the grade - those investigators also said a hole in the brake air line was patched with electrical tape)

Forest worker hurt (the man suffered head injuries including a broken jaw and nose and possible neck injuries in the accident - logger was struck and killed struck by a tree)

worker killed in power line accident (a construction worker was killed when his concrete pumping truck hit a high-voltage power line - the victim, 30, was preparing to pour cement from the boom truck when the vehicle's boom touched the power line - the truck caught fire - officials don't know if the man died from electrocution or in the resulting fire)

UPDATE Worker's fall at store prompts OSHA probe (California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating an accident at a Furniture warehouse that left a 25-year-old employee brain dead - fell about 32 feet from a piece of equipment called a "picker," described as a forklift with a platform, which allows employees to stock and retrieve items)

LOCK IT OUT!!!!! Yakima company fined $10,800 for safety violation in worker death (a fruit company has been fined $10,800 for safety violations in the death of a mechanic who was trying to repair some machinery - company is appealing three $3,600 fines assessed by the Department of Labor and Industries, which said in documents that the company lacked adequate "lock out tag out" procedures on July 20, when Bradley Allen Mayer, 36, was electrocuted while trying to fix the brake on a bin stacking machine - "worker began working on the de-stacker while others on the line were on a break and got a fatal dose of electricity when a co-worker returned from the break and unwittingly "started it up, thinking he was clear,"

Savannah River Site worker burned (a worker at the site suffered minor burns while cleaning a container used to make powders - two workers were cleaning with alcohol at the old nuclear weapons plant when a small flash fire started - suffered burns to the right side of his face, head and neck and will need a skin graft)

Man crushed at rail yard (a man, 43, died when he was crushed between two rail cars at a loading yard - was injured while working at the loading yard after he became momentarily pinned between two rail cars)

Explosion in Hillsborough injures two oil workers (authorities are investigating what caused a tanker truck to explode leaving two employees in critical condition from severe burns - were working on a rear valve in the tanker truck at the western side of the property when the truck exploded and caught fire - the truck, which was empty during the 3:21 p.m. blast, normally is used to transport liquid asphalt - the explosion's cause is unknown)

Two Men Flown Out of Refinery After Receiving Burns (the men were preparing some equipment for routine maintenance when they were burned - the men were burned when some hydrogen gas was briefly ignited during this maintenance)

UPDATE OSHA cites Pa. plant for chemical hazard (a zinc manufacturing company faces a nearly $200,000 fine after being cited for alleged safety and health violations after a July accident in which an employee stepped into an uncovered condenser pit full of molten zinc and sustained severe leg burns - OSHA proposed a $63,000 fine for failure to cover the pit or provide a guardrail to prevent employees from stepping into it - OSHA also issued 27 serious citations with proposed fines totaling $111,150 for alleged violations that include failure to use an approved safety platform and provide guardrails or protection barriers)

Explosion mangles factory (no one was hurt in the accident and a small fire was quickly brought under control - there was no immediate word on the cause)

LOCK IT OUT!!!!! Man dies in accident at midstate plant (worker, 58, one of the plant's original employees, died after getting caught in machinery - the plant was shut down for routine maintenance at the time of the accident, and the worker was caught in machinery while working on it)

Man trapped at work on first day (a 19-year-old had to be taken to hospital on his first day in a new job after being pinned to a wall by a forklift truck - fire service took 40 minutes to free him using hydraulic equipment)

Fire hits Entec Resins plant (plant was evacuated after a fire ignited in one of the manufacturing company’s ventilation units because of a dirty filter - a petroleum waste, which is a by-product of resin, caught fire inside a centrally located vent and acted like a candle fueling the fire)

Fire flashes through paint factory (a fire and a series of explosions ripped through a paint factory leaving three people critically injured - cause of the explosions was unclear, and there was no immediate estimate of damages to the factory and another building)

UPDATE Clayson Steel (1988) Inc. fined $115,000 for health and safety violation (a worker reached into a "brake press" (a machine used to cut metal into various forms) to retrieve a piece of metal when the machine started - the worker received crushing injuries to four fingers resulting in those fingers having to be amputated - the worker had been hired as a general labourer from an employment agency six days earlier - the day after being hired the worker was put to work on the brake press)

UPDATE Unclear procedures led to Bayer plant death (federal inspectors determined that unclear operating procedures contributed to the June 18 death of contract employee at the plastics manufacturing facility - contractor, 57, died while being flown by LifeFlight to the Hospital after he was exposed to the corrosive chemical phenol in an early-morning accident - a 24-year employee of his main company, he had worked as a maintenance mechanic at the plant for 15 years - worker had just completed disconnecting a modified sea container containing phenol from a pump used to flush catalyst to a bisphenol-A, or BPA, reactor - this was the first use of this particular system - he had been wearing full protective gear while performing the task, was showering in a decontamination shower when a pressure build-up on a pipe valve caused a gasket above the shower to fail, releasing the phenol, which “rained down upon” him)

Neste Oil: Explosion At Nynas, Sweden Crude Refinery -2- (an explosion and fire at Nynas Refinery south of Stockholm should be under control within 30 minutes - no-one was injured at the refinery - the cause of the explosion was not yet known, but gas and oil leaks were feeding the fire)

UPDATE Blast claims 2nd Daytona worker (a maintenance worker, 40, died and the plant's lead maintenance manager, 59, died at the scene - maintenance worker, 42, remained in critical condition at Orlando Regional Medical Center with burns from his chest down - employees were using a torch to repair a metal roof above a chemical tank containing highly flammable methanol, and city officials still could not answer whether the three knew about the dangers)

Worker killed at McKees Rocks plant (worker was attempting to dislodge a piece of steel caught in equipment when it fell 20 feet onto him)

Worker hurt at timber mill (the man was working in the green mill when his left leg became trapped in a machine)

Worker Burned At Area Recycling Plant (a worker at a County recycling plant is hurt following an accident involving an aluminum furnace - worker was putting metal into a furnace used to melt aluminum when he was hurt  - appears that he was burned when some condensation on the metal burst under the intense heat - the worker had on safety gear, but he suffered first-degree burns on his chin, ear and neck)

UPDATE Worker dies from tanker blast burns (a worker burned in a tanker-truck explosion has died from his injuries - co-worker, 37, remains in critical condition in the hospital's burn unit - were working on a rear valve in the tanker truck when the truck exploded and caught fire - the truck, which was empty during the 3:21 p.m. blast, is used to transport liquid asphalt - the explosion's cause is unknown)

UPDATE Fine Proposed For Pike Electric In Utility Worker's Death (federal officials have proposed $77,000 in fines for a utility in the death of a lineman electrocuted during hurricane repairs - company didn't isolate an electrical source to protect the worker - he died last July 13 after splicing lines together that became energized from a generator)

Fire extinguished at Russia's Komsomolsk refinery (ten 60-tonne oil product storage tanks caught fire at Rosneft's Komsomolsk refinery in Russia but the blaze was quickly put out - spokesman declined to comment on the fire)

Chemical spill reported at Specialty Minerals (due to an equipment malfunction the plant released around 65 gallons of a 20 percent hydrochloric acid solution - the company is still investigating how the leak occurred)

Wood-chipping plant fire contained (a 15m-high stack of mulch and timber had caught fire at the yard - it will take firefighters all day to put the blaze out completely)

Fire Destroys Trailer Manufacturing Plant (the fire started after an explosion, but there is no official word on what caused the fire - the plant appears to be a complete loss)

LOCK IT OUT!!!! UPDATE Nova Steel Processing fined $75,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was helping to remove used "cutting heads" (blades) and "spacers" (pieces of steel enabling the cutting heads to be spaced apart at different intervals) on a machine located on a "slitter line" (a production line that cuts rolls of steel to dimensions required by  customers) when the worker's foot got caught in a pinch point between a stationary component and a moving component that contained a blade. The force of movement resulted in amputation of the worker's right foot. The component had been activated by a second worker to enable the cutting heads to be removed)

Worker killed during maintenance check in El Paso (an airplane mechanic was killed after he was sucked into a jet's engine while passengers were boarding from the tarmac - the worker was sucked into the right engine of the 737-500 - there had been an earlier problem with the Number 2 engine, so the engine's metal covering was open at the time of the accident)

Worker crushed to death in overnight industrial accident (witnesses heard a large boom and when they went to the back of the business, one of the workers, 26, was stuck in a hydraulic winch - still interviewing witnesses to find out how he got trapped in the machine)

VOSHA investigates Putney Paper accident (employee got her hand caught in between two rolls of a machine - the accident didn't sever the hand, but at a hospital in Boston, it was amputated - no other deatils)

Oil worker in fatal fall (oil worker,51, died after plummeting 120 feet off a petroleum exploration rig - was a derrickman on a rig - fell while climbing down from the rig - it is unclear whether he was using his safety harness)

Hamilton Factory Worker Seriously Injured (the employee suffered serious injuries to his upper body and underwent surgery - accident involved a paper machine - no other injuries - the surgery went well but that the man can expect a long recovery)

Woman selling ear protectors was crushed to death by forklift ... (a woman was crushed beneath the wheels of a forklift truck as she pressed its pedals with her hands to demonstrate its noise to a man she was selling a set of ear protectors - worker, 37, died of colossal crush injuries following the accident at the premises of her employer)

PPL worker injured at plant (worker was clearing coal from a feeder at 1 p.m. when he was pushed backward - don't know what the cause of the problem with the coal feeder was - was injured when working with the feeder, which takes coal from outside the plant and sends it into a mill - coal was wet from the weekend rains and workers were trying to break up clumps to get it to move smoothly through the feeder)

Oil field fire ignited by company pickup (a fire burned about 50 acres - the fire began when an oil field pickup truck pulled into tall grass and its hot undercarriage caught the grass on fire)

No one hurt in Russian tanker fire in Sevastopol (no one was hurt in a fire that broke out onboard a Russian tanker under repairs - fire started on the Volga-Neft-120 tanker’s nose in the dry dock of the Ordzhokinidze shipyard - presumably, welding sparked the blaze - firemen prevented the fire from spreading into a warehouse, where lacquers and paints are being stored)

Tank explosion at Taiyo Oil Japan refinery kills 2 (a storage tank explosion at an oil refinery in western Japan killed five workers - the tank, used to store crude oil at the company's 120,000 barrels per day refinery - the fire was extinguished about 10 minutes later - the tank was empty and workers were cleaning it when it caught fire - seven people were caught in the explosion - five were killed and two were injured and taken to hospital)

Shell Dutch refinery steam leak alarms neighbours (a steam leakage at the refinery caused an avalanche of phone calls to police by hundreds of worried citizens - there was a leakage in a steam line, which allowed a lot of steam and pressure to escape, creating a strong noise)

Cyanide Leak Poisons Fish in Czech River (a cyanide leak in the central Czech Republic has killed several tonnes of fish in the river Labe (Elbe) flowing to Germany - the poisonous cyanide, thought to have leaked from a chemicals factory, could not be dissolved in water but was being gradually eliminated through contact with oxygen)

Trex byproduct material catches fire (a pile of composite byproduct that is stored at the decking and railing manufacturing plant in a contained area caught fire - byproducts from the manufacturing process are placed in a containment area to cool and due to the holidays more material had accumulated in the containment area and the heat from inside the material ignited)

Fire at Fuba's Gittelde PCB Plant (nobody was hurt and the damage to the property and equipment has to be determined - no word on cause)

Accident kills forklift operator (worker, 47, was operating a stand-up forklift when she backed into a metal gate, causing "crushing injuries" - a mother of four and a grandmother of three - have young children, ages 4, 2 and 9 months - was a "relatively recent hire" and had been working there for about five months)

Forklift Crash Crushes Man (a man was killed when the forklift he was driving on the shoulder slid down a bank and pinned him)

AGP accident leaves one dead (one worker was killed and another injured in an accident at the processing plant - steam explosion at the soybean processing plant - the accident occurred in the boiler room area of the plant and that two employees had been injured - the damage was limited to the boiler room, and the cause of the accident was unknown)

Man loses arm - twice (a man who faces the loss of his left arm following a factory accident is to receive almost £1.5million in compensation - 20 years after he lost his other arm in an incident at the same workplace  - the worker, 62, had his right arm amputated in 1985 after an accident while he was employed as a foundry worker - he now faces the loss of his other arm after being involved in an accident in 2001 working for the same employer)

Power Plant Accident Sends Man To Hospital (power production from the power plant will be cut by about 30 percent for several days after a portion of a cooling tower collapsed - accident sent one worker to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening - basic repairs were being made on -  the tower when it collapsed)

UPDATE US indicts trio in Davis-Besse inquiry (two former engineers and an outside consultant who was contracted for years to work for the nuclear division have been indicted by a federal grand jury)

Worker killed when radio tower falls (a 33-year-old man working on a state transportation department radio tower is dead after the tower fell on him - investigators still haven't determined what caused the accident - the National Weather Service reported sustained winds of 25 to 30 miles per hour with gusts of 40 to 45 miles per hour in the area)

Cadbury Explosion Claims One More Life (one more person has died as a result of the explosion which occurred about two weeks ago - the deceased, 30, an electrician, sustained severe burns as a result of the explosion and was in the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital until he died at 4 a.m. on Monday - explosion was reportedly caused by a worker who attempted to weld a leakage on an oil tanker which had offloaded its cargo)

Two said missing in W.Virginia mine fire: official (two miners have been reported missing after a fire broke out at a coal mine)

Worker's hand amputated after accident at jute mill (a worker's hand had to be amputated after it became entangled in machinery at a jute mill)

UPDATE Miner to face court over burnt worker (company will face legal action over a worker being seriously burnt at its alumina refinery - worker, 34, was badly burned when sprayed with caustic slurry in the refinery's mill slurry heating area in January last year)

Man badly burned in 25,000-volt shock (a rail worker suffered 40% burns after receiving an electric shock from an over-head power line - the 45-year-old man was working on the top of a locomotive when he received a shock of 25,000 volts)

One dead, three hurt in catering plant fire (link issues)

Georgetown worker crushed in machine that grabs and hold logs (a worker at a Lumber Mill has died after he was pinned in a machine that grabs and hold logs - the 52-year-old was working on a debarking machine when a pneumatic cylinder crushed him - had worked at the mill about two years - he died of head injuries within seconds)

Quartz slabs crush worker removing ice (a worker trying to break ice from quartz at a stone outlet was crushed to death when the slabs broke loose and fell on him - worker, 27, died shortly after nearly 2,800 pounds of quartz - used to make kitchen countertops - toppled onto him in an outdoor lot at the business)

1 killed, 1 injured in tank collapse (one worker died and another was transported by Life Flight after they fell while working on a refinery tank at a facility - the shell of the north side of the tank fell inward and two of the tank contractor employees were injured)

Fire forces five-hour shutdown at Indiana Toyota plant (a fire at the manufacturing plant forced a nearly five-hour shutdown - no one was injured in the blaze - fire occurred in a welding area for the minivan and may have begun with a welding spark igniting insulation in the roof - damage was limited to an eight-by-20-foot section of the roof)

2nd fire in just months creates scare but minor losses at elevator (sparks from welding are what caused a fire inside a grain elevator - welding that sparked the fire came from repairs to damage caused by an October fire to the same structure)

Worker killed when high winds downed his scaffolding (two contract workers were inside a storage tank when part of the tanker wall collapsed - one worker was killed and another injured when high winds caused their scaffolding to collapse)

UPDATE Tank explosion at Taiyo Oil Japan refinery kills 2 (five people appeared to be unaccounted for and two others were likely dead)

Piqua man injured in plant accident (a man was in serious condition after he was crushed between heavy steel coils - worker, 24, had injuries to his upper body and face - no other details)

China gas pipeline blast kills nine (link issues)

Millworker loses part of leg (worker states his foot slipped and caught in a box chain drive, tearing off his right leg just below the kneecap - job involves moving cores of peeled wood along a conveyor belt to either a chipper or a hauling truck - he said he shut off the conveyor belt and hopped on one leg up a staircase to the lathe station - there, workers who operate the blade that strips the wood called paramedics and stemmed the blood pouring from his wound - accident followed a complaint in June 2004 and citations for eight safety violations in September 2004 - complaint alleged that dangerous parts of equipment where workers were at risk of catching their limbs were not guarded at the chipper work station and equipment was being operated improperly)

Fire at Toledo factory sends smoke over city (all of the factory's employees got out of the building - at least one person has been taken to a hospital - no other details)

Boiler explodes in industrial estate (a boiler burst disrupting power and destroying the compound wall of a small industry unit - there were no casualties - workers in adjoining units recalled a sound like a bomb going off, the ground shaking)

Coal loader collapse closes port (a telescopic ship loader fell into the hold of a ship - damage to the ship was minimal but it will have to stay until the crane is lifted off)

Worker dies in Avondale accident (a shipfitter died at the facility when he fell into a tank filled with water - the 59-year-old worker was working on the dry dock when he fell)

UPDATE Sunoco Worker Wins $9 Million Lawsuit (a jury has awarded a laborer $9 million for injuries he suffered falling from a ladder at the company's refinery - the main factual dispute in the case was whether a safety cage was in place on the ladder when the accident occurred)

UPDATE Sewer company fined nearly two (m) million for worker deaths (a company that provides water and sewer services has been fined nearly two (m) million dollars for a sewage tank accident that killed two men and injured another - judge also ordered the company to pay more than 150-thousand dollars in restitution to the victims' survivors, start a safety program and be on probation for nine years - company was found guilty October 14th of negligent homicide, violating a safety standard causing the death of an employee and one count of endangerment in the death of a 26-year-old worker)

Worker falls off cliff in bulldozer at Sherwood quarry (an industrial worker was killed after toppling off a cliff in a bulldozer he was operating at a rock quarry - fell off the side of a cliff estimated to be about three stories high and the bulldozer came to rest upside down in a water-filled gravel pit)

Citizens Gas worker dies in accident (a gas employee died in a rail car accident at the company's coke plant - was a veteran coal loader - witnesses told police three rail cars broke loose - the brakemen tried to stop them - when the worker tried to help, he fell between the wheels and one of the cars hit him)

Two injured in factory mishapPublished: Friday, January 27, 2006 ... (more than a ton of flooring materials fell on one person and hit another - details on the accident were still sketchy)

Docs save 6 severed fingers (surgeons have saved factory worker hands after she severed six fingers in a work accident - accident happened two weeks ago at a food processing factory)

UPDATE Report: Vineyard death deemed accident (the investigation into the death of a farmworker crushed beneath a grape harvester or tractor in a vineyard has ended with no citations issued to her employer)

UPDATE Foundry boss treated burn, worker says (defendant converted the pipe foundry infirmary into a temporary triage ward for two days and forced a badly injured worker to remain on the job, testimony shows - months later, a plant safety director transformed the infirmary into a makeshift surgical clinic when the same worker suffered another injury - worker suffered serious burns in a May 10, 2000, accident when he stepped into a pit containing molten iron - then-foundry Safety Director began his treatment by cleaning the wound, applying burn salve and wrapping it in bandages)

Debris injures worker in face (a woman was injured when she was hit in the face by flying debris at the plant - the woman was one of four people working on a line that produces gas generators for air bag inflators - the four were working on "the G line," which makes pressurized gas cylinders for air bags - a piece of equipment failed and scattered some debris)

None hurt in Pittsburg refinery fire (a small fire was extinguished at the oil refinery - the fire's first alarm was called when an asphalt tank's overflow caught nearby insulation on fire - the asphalt was emptied from one tank into another tank as a precaution - no injuries were reported)

Oil worker crushed in Weld County (can't find actual story)

Riddle man dies in accident at logging site (worker, 37, was pouring gasoline on the fire, which caused the 8:10 a.m. explosion- worker's partner had gone up the road and then returned to find him dead - the two had been working on equipment at a landing site near the logging operation)

UPDATE Shocked worker suing Nstar for $1M (a 19-year-old laborer badly shocked while cleaning a transformer is suing for more than $1 million - claimed “negligence and carelessness” led to the Oct. 15 incident, which injured two other cleaners less severely - lawyer said the incident occurred when the laborers, who worked for a cleaning firm, attempted to polish a transformer the company allegedly failed to power down)

Worker, churned inside powerloom machine, saved (woman working with a powerloom who had caught inside a machine accidentally, has been miraculously saved by a timely surgery - twenty five-year-old worker had entangled with the powerloom belt, while she was working on January 4 - before anything could be done, she was dragged into the machine, crushed and swirled twice before being thrown into the pit of the loom)

ZERO ENERGY means ALL ENERGY SOURCES!!! IP Worker Killed By Debarking Machine (an employee was killed when the debarking machine he was working on pinned and crushed him - worker, 52, a maintenance worker at the Lumber Mill who had been with the company for two years, died from head injuries - while electricity to the machine was shut off, the pneumatic cylinder Merritt was working on lowered and trapped him)

Worker electrocuted (a contract labourer was electrocuted while working on a transformer - was charred to death after he came in contact with a high power cable - suspect power might have been accidentally switched on)

UPDATE Bad plug cause of fatal blast (a rubber plug in a check valve that got hung up in an empty water line allowed acetylene gas to back up into a shed and most likely ignite on the 1,100-degree core of a space heater, killing three men and seriously injuring a fourth at a city plant last year)

3 injured in fire (the fire occurred at 1:29 p.m. as the three men were using a cutting torch and accidentally ignited a flash fire on a piece of equipment inside the shop area of the business)

UPDATE US magistrate: No injuries proven in Exxon fire (thousands of people who claim they were injured by the smoke plume from an Exxon refinery fire 12 years ago may never get to plead their case before a jury - a federal magistrate is recommending all the claims be dismissed)

UPDATE 15 found responsible for toxic slick in river (fifteen people have been found responsible for the toxic cadmium slick in Beijiang River in South China's Guangdong Province on December 15)

Dust blamed for blast at chemical plant (authorities said dust is to blame for a blast at a chemical plant - officials said it was caused by a build-up of dust in a dryer unit on the third floor of the building - no injuries)

Fire at Johnson Technology sends burned man to hospital (one man was burned and several others suffered from smoke inhalation when a fire broke out - it appears the fire was caused by an electrical short in a box that was being serviced - the apprentice, who was feeding wire while standing behind a wall when the fire broke out, was not injured)

Fire destroys Chester County mushroom cannery (a family owned mushroom cannery burned to the ground in a fast-moving fire that apparently started in the boiler room - maintenance workers reported the boiler room fire - the workers were successfully evacuated)

Fire breaks out at Makarpura GIDC factory (a major fire gutted its store containing imported raw materials as well as finished goods - no loss of life or injury to any of the workers was reported - exact cause of the fire could not be known immediately)

Dozens flee leak of toxic ammonia (dozens of residents were evacuated for about six hours, and seven people needed medical treatment after toxic anhydrous ammonia leaked from a damaged tank at a steel fabricating plant - two sheriff's deputies were injured and taken to hospitals - three members of the Fire Department were exposed to fumes and five area residents required medical treatment - highway M-40 was closed for more than seven hours - authorities said the tank was damaged during an attempt to steal some of the toxic chemical)

UPDATE Dorel Industries Inc. fined $90,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was removing debris from the cutting line of a saw machine that cut and stacked particle board when the worker's hand came in contact with moving cutting blades - the worker's lower left arm and hand were amputated - an investigation found there was no guarding
device that prevented the worker from having access to the exposed moving blades)

UPDATE Two Toronto-area construction companies and two supervisors fined for health and safety violations (a worker was working on a 3.65-metre (12-foot), single-section, aluminium ladder driving a nail into a ledge that was being fastened to formwork (structures into which concrete is poured) when the worker slipped and fell onto a protruding "rebar" (a piece of reinforcing steel used in concrete formwork) that was directly below the worker. The rebar penetrated the worker's abdomen causing serious injuries. At the time of theincident the ladder was set up on a level section of dirt and was leaningagainst a vertical section of formwork - investigation found the rebar was not protected in a manner that ensured worker safety. This was one of the factors that contributed to the incident. The ladder was also not secured to anything)

UPDATE Flooring firm fined for worker accident (a flooring firm has been fined £40,000 for an accident which led to a man being off work for 13 months after his arm was trapped between rollers - worker was injured on December 10 when his fingers and then his arm were dragged into the lip between two rollers on the laminating machine he was operating while he was in the process of feeding a sheet into the rollers)

Worker dies in industrial accident (worker, 44, was working at Joplin Building Material Co. when a pallet loaded with concrete blocks got jammed on a conveyer that stacks the blocks - when he and a co-worker tried to lift the pallet to free the conveyer, it slipped and fell, striking him in the head and arm)

PECO worker electrocuted, dies on job (a line worker died after coming into contact with an energized wire - crews were working on power lines in the area when the incident occurred just before 11 a.m. - the worker, 40, was an 18-year veteran and a first-class lineman, the highest in the field progression - was part of an eight-member team that was working to replace a single span of conductor wire - two other members of the team were working on the wires from buckets while he was working with an unenergized wire on the ground, preparing it to be installed - not quite sure what happened next, other than one of the lines broke in mid-span and fell to the ground and contacted the worker either directly or through the wire he was handling)

Accident claims Nisku worker (the victim was working with oilfield tanks suspended from a crane and was caught between two of them)

MAN FALLS IN SHREDDER (a worker lost his right arm and left hand when he slipped and fell into an industrial shredder - the father-of-two was said to be stable following emergency surgery - no other details)

Council worker killed by refuse truck in Northumberland (a refuse collection officer has been killed following an accident involving a refuse collection vehicle - worker, 51, was working when the incident happened just before 7am - he left his collection vehicle and it rolled forward and hit him)

LOCK IT OUT!!! UPDATE Companies fined over worker death(two companies have been fined $315,000 each after a worker was crushed to death by machinery at a alumina refinery 18 months ago - a 47-year-old father of eight, died of blunt chest trauma after he fell into machinery during maintenance)

UPDATE Plant worker indicted (a nuclear power plant employee indicted on suspicion of misleading federal regulators about the condition of a troubled plant later moved to Wisconsin, where he worked for the past three years at the nuclear plant - is scheduled to be arraigned in federal court on five charges of falsifying reports to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission - he is one of three people who worked for the Davis-Besse nuclear plant who have been indicted on charges of filing reports that concealed problems at the plant)

Welder burned in explosion (the owner of a business suffered third-degree burns over all of his body from an explosion as he welded a flatbed truck - life-threatening burns to as much as 100% of his body - incident happened as he worked near a fuel tank )

LOCK IT OUT!!! Worker dies in industrial accident at Jennie-O plant Thursday in ... (worker, 27, was crushed in machinery - was cleaning out a machine at the turkey processing plant when something became stuck in it - he got caught while trying to pull it out)

Fitter to sue Glaxo for £15k over work injury (link issues)

Fatal mine blast being investigated (a miner has been killed in an underground explosion that rocked a nickel mine - worker, 32, an employee of mining contractor was working about 900m underground when the explosion occurred - no-one else was injured in the explosion, the cause of which is not yet known)

UPDATE Algoma Steel fined for accident that killed Bob Brzezinski (a steel manufacturer was fined $313,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that resulted in the death of an employee - on April 26, 2004, an electrical worker was attempting to visually trace some wire that ran along a ceiling when the worker walked over an opening to an "alloy addition chute" (a large funnel-shaped hole used to introduce additives during the steel-making process) in the floor and fell about 10.7 metres (35 feet) into a pit below)

Worker killed in fork lift accident (worker, 50, was pinned between the frame and hydraulic arm of the fork lift - he later died of a crushing injury - no witnesses - preliminary findings indicated multiple facial and skull fractures and brain injuries)

HSE and police investigate shredder accident in Hampshire (worker, 59, was lost his entire right arm and left hand in an incident involving an industrial shredder)

Worker Killed At Ford Sterling Heights Plant (worker, 61, was a 40-year employee and worked as a millwright - no further details)

Refuse worker dies after being hit by bin lorry (worker, 51, had got out the lorry and walked in front of it, but the vehicle moved forward and collided with him)

(worker lost his right arm and left hand when he slipped and fell into an industrial shredder -

Worker killed at Joplin plant (a pallet of concrete blocks was on a conveyor that became jammed - he and a co-worker tried to elevate the pallet to free the conveyor, and the pallet slipped and fell on the worker's head)

Worker Burned at McCormick Spice Company (no details other than it was a small fire and a worker was burned)

Man Badly Burned in Hazardous Waste Disposal Accident (a 47-year-old man is clinging to life, badly burned after a fuel pipe burst  - accident happened at a hazardous waste disposal site - victim has third degree burns over 80-percent of his body - a fuel line broke - when the fuel line busted it saturated the back of his clothing and then ignited - he burned over 80 percent of his body)

UPDATE Excell Stamping Inc. fined $60,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was attempting to adjust a part that had been
loaded into a punch press machine when the press cycled downwards - the worker's right hand was crushed in a pinch point resulting in the amputation of four fingers)

UPDATE Torch blamed for fire that trapped miners (a preliminary investigation has identified a cutting torch as the source of a fire that temporarily trapped 72 workers underground in a potash mine - investigators believe the torch was being used to remove bolts from a flange connected to some polyethylene pipe - it caused a flame on the inside of the pipe, which sent dense black smoke billowing through the tunnels of the mine)

Worker falls into ship's cargo hull (a worker was injured after falling into the cargo hull of a ship)

Blast injures worker (a factory worker sustained 40 per cent burn injuries in a blast - the blast took place in a casting furnace - factory workers said besides causing a fire, the impact of the explosion broke windowpanes of adjoining industrial sheds, some located more than a 100 metres away)

UPDATE Accident at work kills Macomb man (according to a press release, at noon the worker, along with another employee, were unloading pieces of heavy machinery from a truck in the dock area - as one piece of machinery was being removed from the truck on to a fork lift, another piece fell out of the truck onto the worker killing him instantly)

Worker dies after accident at Biffa waste site (a 52-year-old man who has not yet been named by the authorities, was hit by a vehicle at the waste transfer station)

Accident kills man at LDS facility (a 32-year-old man was killed while working in the printing area - was working near the baler machine in an area of the plant where paper products are bundled for recycling - he somehow got into the machine that was moving the material around - when co-workers saw what happened, they immediately shut off the machine and pulled the man out of the hopper - he had some injuries to his head, chest and upper back)

Railroad worker dies in Tacoma rail yard (the man was killed as he helped put a train car that had derailed back on the tracks - no other details)

UPDATE Report blames designer, maker of fuel tank for fatal blast (investigators blame two companies for last year's fuel tank explosion at a Union Pacific machine shop - while no single factor was responsible for the fatal blast, officials say the designer and the maker of the tank made errors that led to the accident last February - a sheet metal worker was working on the new fuel tank when a spark ignited vapors trapped inside and caused an explosion - the worker, was killed)

Dust Explosion in a Specialty Pharmaceutical Plant (the explosion occurred in a blending operation handling particulate bulk solids - multiple ingredients are added to a mixer manually from 50-pound sacks - the mixer is a tumbling type multifaceted drum that is located in a stand alone, dedicated room - an explosion occurred in the mixer drum during the addition of the last but one bag of ingredients - the explosion developed slowly as these things go, with the initial ignition occurring at the bottom of the drum, some 16 feet below the worker who saw the flame as he was pouring the contents of the 50-pound sack into it - incredibly and most fortunately, although injured, this worker was able to turn away in time to avoid what could have easily been a fatal experience)

Airplane Accident (the regional jet was just moments away from taxiing to the runway when a fuel truck clipped the wing around 6:30 a.m. - no one on board the plane was hurt but the fuel truck driver was trapped inside the vehicle's cabin for about 20 minutes - the plane's wing is severely damaged and the fuel truck is also out of commission)

Fire damages Palm City shipping company (a smouldering fire in the roof of a large loading dock sent toxic clouds of black, orange and gray smoke billowing - worker using a torch apparently ignited the insulation under the building's metal roof around)

UPDATE Worker injured in chemical plant explosion dies in burn unit (a worker, 55, severely burned in last week's chemical plant explosion in North Carolina has died - a federal investigator has said Tuesday's blast in Morganton was probably caused by a vapor leak from a chemical reactor - the explosion blew out windows a third of a mile away)

LOCK IT OUT!!! UPDATE Company fined after death (worker, 34, had reached inside a press to free a blockage when he inadvertently started it up again, leading to his almost instant death - his head and upper body were horrifically crushed beneath a press that applied 630 pounds of pressure per square inch)

One person injured after fire at plant warehouse (one person was injured after a fire and explosion at a chemical plant warehouse - fire occurred about 3:25 p.m. at an aluminum handling warehouse at the plant - a small explosion was also reported - portions of State Highway 225, which runs past the plant, were shut down for a time, backing up traffic for miles - plant's emergency response team battled the blaze - firefighters from nearby La Porte responded to the scene on a standby basis)

Two killed in tanker explosion (Two people were killed and one injured seriously when an empty oil tanker exploded while being repaired at a workshop - the tanker, used for carrying petrol, burst while the welding works were being done and caught fire partially)

Fire-fighters put out blaze at Japan refinery (no word on cause - took three hours to put out)

CONFINED SPACE FATALITY!!! UPDATE Family Files Lawsuit After DE Refinery Deaths (attorneys for the family of a Maryland man who died in the refinery last year say in a new lawsuit that corporate greed and “reckless and outrageous” safety failures led to the man’s death - claim seeks more than 100-thousand dollars in damages for the death of one of two contractors who suffocated inside a nitrogen-filled refining unit at the plant on November 5th)

BUCKLE UP!!! Man, 20, killed in forklift accident (a forklift fell on the 20-year-old at the beginning of his 12-hour shift at a masonry plant - it looks as though he attempted to jump from the vehicle and the forklift fell on its side, trapping him underneath)

UPDATE Mattel Canada Inc. fined $65,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was using a lift truck to lift a load weighing 910 kilograms (2,006 pounds) when the truck and load fell forward onto the truck's front end - the worker's left wrist was broken in the incident)

Mine accident kills nine (a hillside being mined collapsed on killing nine stone mine workers and injured several others)

Ex-railroad worker's leg, back broken in accident (a former railroad worker whose leg and back were broken when he was hit by a slow-moving train three years ago was awarded $5 million by a jury - he had uncoupled a railroad car from an engine and as he stepped out from between the two cars, a train traveling on nearby tracks struck him)

Small fire causes alert at Perry nuclear plant (nuclear power plant operators declared an alert when a fan motor for a plant ventilation system caught fire - the fire, reported at 3:06 p.m., was put out by a plant worker within three minutes using a fire extinguisher - what caused the fire in the plant's control building remains under investigation,  - no one was injured)

Cable plant worker hurt by chemical explosion (a woman employee was hurt by an explosion fueled by fumes from a barrel of volatile chemicals - she was thrown eight feet while filling a milk carton with isopropyl alcohol, a chemical used to clean assembly equipment - the chemical, stored in a 55-gallon drum, is volatile, and likely was ignited by a static charge created by improperly grounded pumping equipment)

UPDATE OSHA SENDS BP FATAL BLAST CASE TO JUSTICE DEPT. (in what its acting administrator called “one of our more significant accomplishments,” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has turned over the case of the fatal blast at BP’s Texas City, Texas refinery last year to the Justice Department for investigation and possible criminal prosecution)

Fire shuts down Total's Dunkirk refinery (a fire which broke out Feb. 10 at the electric power station refinery cut off the plant's entire electric system and forced a shutdown of the 160,000 b/d facility - the fire was quickly extinguished)

Warehouse Fire (the plant which makes chrome plating housed several containers of chemicals including propane - those chemicals caused several small explosions inside the plant. Luckily no one was inside the plant at the time of the fire - cause of the fire was not known)

Fire does minor damage at FirstEnergy plant (a fire in a coal conveyor belt system at the coal-fired power plant caused minor damage - the fire on the upper floor of the plant was detected about 4:50 p.m. as the facility was preparing for a seven-day maintenance outage)

CFD firefighters help slow anhydrous ammonia leak (firefighters helped slow the leak of anhydrous ammonia while teams of employees closed the operation and evacuated the plant - employees smelled ammonia in an area of new construction - a cracked valve was located but the flow of the dangerous chemical could not be stopped - usng self-contained breathing systems, firefighters were able to slow the leak while employees off-loaded the storage tank into a truck)

15 fall unconscious after ammonia leak (about a dozen women employees of an export garment unit fell unconscious after inhaling leaking ammonia from a nearby cold storage unit - an ammonia compressor in the storage unit burst leading to the leakage of the chemical)

Man airlifted to UMC with broken legs (a 43-year-old man was airlifted to University Medical Center after he was pinned between a forklift and a load of lumber and plywood - he got down from the forklift he was operating to adjust a load and that's when he became pinned between the machine and the load, breaking both of his legs)

Worker killed at Fort Myers power plant (two men fwere inspecting the cooling towers when an external staircase collapsed - men fell four stories to the ground - plants across the state are closing all external staircases until they can be inspected)

Accident injures crane operator (one person was taken to the hospital after a crane working on a natural gas well twisted and broke - the crane operator fell approximately five to six feet from the cab of the crane, injuring his shoulder - when the accident occurred employees were performing general maintenance on the well)

UPDATE Tree service fined $6,500 by OSHA for fatal accident (the company that employed a worker who was dragged to his death into a commercial wood chipper last May has been fined $6,500)

Three hurt in accident at Reliance (three people were injured, two seriously, when molten aluminum spewed out of a machine - two had burns "to portions of their bodies" and were in stable condition - the accident occurred at about 6:15 p.m. at an aluminum die-cast machine - for reasons company officials don't yet know, something happened during an aluminum injection process that caused molten aluminum metal to come out of the injection machine)

Meat plant eyed after accident (a meat hook pierced a 19-year-old woman's head, slicing through her ear and just missing her brain - the woman was working at the end position on the chain when she became entangled in the machinery - early indications are she was caught between a fixed and moving carcass handling machine and a guard surrounding a cutting machine)

Worker killed in accident at steel company scrap yard (a piece of cut steel fell onto a man working in a scrap yard and killed him - worker, 56, was using a torch to cut scrap when it appears a piece of metal fell back on him)

Mittal worker injured in fall (a week after IOSHA fined the company for violations it found in an accident that caused the death of a steelworker, another worker was critically injured at another company facility - the accident occurred in the steel producing area when the maintenance technician fell more than 15 feet into the hot metal hole of the No. 3 Basic Oxygen Furnace)

UPDATE Injury costs company $35,000 (company was fined $35,000 for an industrial accident in which a worker suffered a severe injury to his left hand - was injured when he fell into moving equipment - suffered lacerations to his tendon, a nerve and an artery, all in his left wrist - the injury resulted in 12% loss of function to his fingers and wrist - he mistakenly engaged the wrong control button of a rotating bore which caused it to increase speed - he was standing on the bore and he became unstable and responded by pushing himself away and leaping, which caused him to fall and injure his hand)

One worker killed in accident at Keppel Shipyard (one worker was killed while another was injured after both men fell into the sea while working - the incident is currently under investigation by the authorities and the shipyard)

Cause of crude-oil tank explosion investigated (three workers were at the site when the 49,000-gallon capacity tank exploded and burst into flames - the explosion blew the lid off the tank, landing 100 feet away in a strawberry field - one unidentified 22-year-old male worker received second-degree burns and cuts on his head - no word on cause)

Minor Fire Temporarily Shuts Down Rhea County Plant (ff's found chemicals burning on top of a reactor in building 6 of the plant - no word on a cause of the fire or a damage estimate)

Four injured in plant chemical leak (two people are critically hurt after they were exposed to a chemical - were hurt when an unidentified gas was released as they were taking apart some machinery - two others sustained minor injuries and also have been taken to the hospital)

Propane incident disrupts Rutland (a propane gas leak at a plant sent more than 125 workers home early, shut down two major city streets and stopped rail traffic for 45 minutes - a propane vendor reported a valve problem with a tank on the site)

Ammonia Leak Forces Evacuation (more than 200 people total were evacuated when the heavy cloud settled in, of those, more than 90 employees at the plant were evacuated - pop off valve activated)

UPDATE Fined for causing accident at Freeport (a 40-year-old man was fined Lm500 after he was found guilty of charges of causing serious injuries through negligence or lack of thought to his work colleague - the accident took place on August 19th, 1999, when he was operating a fork-lifter crane known as tank master in order to lift a container and move it from one place to another - hit a container that was on top of another three containers and toppled it over - the container fell and plunged over the tank master's cabin and consequently injured the worker)

UPDATE Integrated Packaging Films Inc. fined $50,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was standing near a machine used in the production of plastic when the worker's arm became caught in rollers and was drawn into the machine and was injured - a second worker stopped the machine by hitting an emergency stop button - a Ministry of Labour investigation found the machine had no guarding device to prevent access to the rollers' pinch point)

UPDATE Wabi Iron & Steel Corp. fined $50,000 for health and safety violation ( worker was using an "overhead travelling crane" (a crane that moves along an overhead rail) to lift a stack of seven large steel "moulding boxes" (boxes used as moulds for the fabrication of metal parts) when a 0.953-centimetre (3/8-inch) lifting chain broke causing a "spreader beam" (a large beam used to stabilize a load that is being lifted)  to break apart and fly over the boxes. The worker was struck by the beam on the left side of the head and chest and was taken by ambulance to hospital in North Bay with broken bones, lacerations and a fracture to the front of the skull)

UPDATE One worker improving from plant fumes (one of two workers still hospitalized after exposure to fumes at the chemical plant improved while the other remained in a coma - both men are being treated as if they were exposed to hydrogen sulfide, although its origin is unknown - they don't have it on site, and they don't make it - fire officials thought hydrogen sulfide was the gas that was released, but that had not been positively determined - both men also underwent red blood cell and plasma exchanges in an effort to remove poisons from their blood and were treated in a hyperbaric chamber, which uses a combination of pressure and pure oxygen to help the body heal)

Compressed Gas Blast Kills Worker at Seal Beach Navy Base (a canister of compressed nitrogen exploded killing a worker - the worker was using a hose to transfer compressed nitrogen gas between two canisters, one of them about 5 feet high, when one vessel ruptured)

Md. Coal Mine Accident Kills 35-Year-Old Man (a 35-year-old Maryland man was killed in a coal mine - was apparently crushed between a mine locomotive and mining equipment that was being carried by a car pulled by a second mine locomotive - he was standing to the rear of a locomotive which was pulling a lowboy loaded with shields - Aa second mine worker, who was operating a second locomotive, also loaded with shields, approached the victim apparently not seeing him standing there - victim was crushed between the locomotive and the overhanging shields)

Rollover of lift kills worker (a 46-year-old employee at a bearing plant was killed when he was crushed by the lift equipment he was operating - was driving a lift at the plant around 2 a.m. when the lift rolled off a loading dock, causing the vehicle to roll over and pin the man underneath)

Worker in critical condition after being pinned by forklift (workers arrived to find the 45-year-old man pinned under a forklift truck - the worker sustained serious lower body injuries in the mishap and has been transferred to an intensive care unit - the man is believed to have been operating the forklift near a docking bay at the time of the incident - no other workers were in the immediate area when the accident occurred)

Miner killed in roof fall in E. Kentucky (miner, 33, had been struck by rock and debris when a mine roof fell - he was helping to remove a barrier in the mine)

Man killed in factory blast (the blast at the firm tore the roof off the one-storey building - six people managed to flee the workshop after the explosion at 3.30pm, but one worker was trapped inside by wreckage and died in the subsequent fire)

Man burned in explosion at Sparks business (a man was taken to a local hospital with burns to his face and hands after a flash explosion at a business blew out part of the corrugated metal wall of the building - the victim, an unidentified employee was at work when vapors from a gasoline leak caused the explosion - his injuries were not life-threatening - the vapors found that source at an electrical cord which sparked the explosion and blew out part of the corrugated steel wall)

UPDATE Workers improving after plant accident (two workers injured in an accident at a factory remain hospitalized but are making progress toward recovery - the two were burned when molten aluminum was released from a machine at the plant)

Elevator shaft fire closes Main St. (link issues)

Fire capped in Tehran oil refinery (fire in the Tehran Oil Refinery, located south of the Iranian capital, was extinguished about five hours after it broke out by firemen from five fire stations - fire began from one of the luboil tanks in the refinery - no reports as yet on the extent of damage caused - an investigation has been launched to find the cause)

5 Killed During Torch Cutting of Shell in Kazakhstan (five workers of a local plant have been killed when a missile detonated during a torch cutting - several shells have been found at the site of the accident)

Explosion and fire hits chemical plant in Bakersfield (a raging fire engulfed a chemical storage facility but no one was injured - the blaze at the chemical plant burned throughout a 9,600-square-foot building - the fire began when a 250-gallon container of methanol came in contact with an electrical pump - the flames then engulfed stores of methanol and glycerin - two people were inside at the time but got out unscathed - some news reports are stating that a forklift accident sparked the blaze and 10,000 gallons of glycerin was on fire)

Fire razes Shell oil well (link issues)

Fire damages UNC chiller plant (a cooling tower caught fire causing an undetermined amount of damage - a firefighter taken to a hospital was in fair condition - no other injuries were reported - fire marshal's office said the investigation is continuing)

Bordentown City plant evacuated (employees at a processing facility were briefly evacuated after a forklift caught fire - fire was sparked about 7 a.m. while a mechanic was repairing a hole on the forklift's radiator with an acetylene torch and the torch malfunctioned)

Fire in oil vat clouds Montpelier (the blaze was contained mostly to the vat, which was full of 4,000 gallons of oil, and some electrical components nearby - the fire was extinguished in about 30 minutes - a damage estimate was not available - the factory makes coil springs for vehicle suspensions - the process of quenching them in a vat of oil started the fire)

Ammonia leakage in ice-factory (ammonia leakage was reported at an ice-factory - no word on cause)

UPDATE Murray Bros. Lumber Company Limited fined $150,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was found deceased in a restricted area underneath an in-feed conveyor belt at a "hog mill" (a building that receives waste material and reduces it in size through a series of conveyor belts, chutes and machines). The worker, a long-time employee, had been working alone in the hog mill and was found by a co-worker entangled in the conveyor's take-up rolls - investigation found the main feed belt switch on the conveyor's control panel was turned to the fast position although it's unknown if this switch was moved after the incident. The fast belt speed is estimated to be about 110 feet per minute. There were no witnesses to the incident, but it is believed the worker removed safety chains inside the conveyor to enter the restricted area in order to clean up or to try to remove something that may have become caught in the conveyor. It was the worker's job to ensure the hog mill's system ran smoothly. The worker's duties included clearing jams and cleaning up sawdust)

UPDATE Union Felt Products Inc. fined $70,000 for health and safety violation (a worker was underneath a "garnet machine" (a machine that takes fibrous material and combines it into layers of padding) when the worker's right hand got caught between two rotating rollers. At the time of the incident the worker was investigating a problem with the processing of material. To access the garnet machine the worker had opened a door to a protective, surrounding fence. As a result of the incident, the worker suffered a loss of the right hand at the wrist - investigation determined that prior to the injured worker going under the garnet machine, a supervisor had instructed workers to shut off the garnet machine so maintenance staff could be called. However, inertia caused the rollers to continue rotating for a period of time. The ministry also found a written lockout procedure for the garnet machine did not address the moving machinery caused by inertia. The injured worker had been trained in the company's lockout procedure. In addition, electronic interlocks on the fence's access doors were designed to shut down the garnet machine when a door was opened, but, after the power was interrupted, the rollers continued to rotate for some time.)

1 worker killed, 8 injured on job (one migrant worker was killed and eight others injured during two separate work-site accidents over the past two days - one worker was killed when a pile of lumber fell on two workers as they were moving some of the timber in a lumberyard - he was buried under fallen lumber and pronounced dead on the scene - the stack of wood suddenly collapsed after the workers pulled out a piece of lumber from around the middle of the pile - seven other migrant workers were injured when the scaffold they were working on collapsed - the workers, who were putting the finishing touches on the outside of a building fell about two stories)

Fatal accident at Marble and Granite, Inc. in Milford (a man was involved in an industrial accident when the worker had a large slab that fall on him - each slab weighs several thousand pounds and there were about 6 or 7 of them that gave way when he was working in that area - they did not all come down on top of him at once, but he was wedged in there)

OIL WORKER KILLED ABOARD DRILLING SHIP (an Oil worker has been killed in an industrial accident aboard a drilling vessel - the 34-year-old man was struck by a piece of equipment known as a mandrill unit weighing 600lbs - was carrying out wireline operations, deploying tools in and out of an oil well - equipment is suspended over an area known as a moonpool where staff are stationed while carrying out wireline work)

Waste Management Worker Hit/Killed in Accident (the worker was on his collection route - it was dawn alongside a road when a routine day on the job turned deadly for the 44-year-old -  he was emptying a garbage can into the back of his truck when a vehicle, driven by a 19 year old, hit and pinned him, killing him instantly)

Monorail worker hurt at Newark Liberty (a man doing maintenance work on the track for the monorail system at the airport was injured - investigation is ongoing about the accident - worker was an employee the company that manages and operates the monorail systems - was injured while performing maintenance on a switch, and the accident had nothing to do with the vehicle - he is in the hospital with a fractured pelvis)

Hydro worker killed on Vancouver Island (worker, 54, died after he came into contact with a Hydro line while carrying out a pole change - worked most of his 33 years with the company - another man in the bucket at the time of the accident received flash burns - he was treated in hospital and released)

Worker's hand crushed in Nhill (the 47-year-old man's hand was caught in a cutting machine at a duck processing facility - was trapped for more than an hour and his hand has been severely injured)

Worker breaks both legs in 2m fall (a man broke both his legs in a two-metre fall from scaffolding at a building site - the man involved in the incident, who is believed to be aged about 50, fell from scaffolding on to a partially concreted surface while working on a new home)

MAN LOSES THREE LIMBS IN SHREDDER ACCIDENT (a refuse worker is in a critical condition at a Hospital after he lost both legs and an arm in an industrial tree shredder - the 48-year-old man was caught in the shredder at the refuse transfer station for about an hour and a half before being freed by rescue workers - it is unclear how the accident happened)

UPDATE Worker Injured In Chemical Leak Dies At University Hospital (a man who was injured in a chemical plant accident died over the weekend - had been an employee at the plant for nearly 30 years - was hurt when fumes believed to be hydrogen sulfide leaked out of a piece of machinery)

Worker dies in explosion at fireworks plant (a senior worker died in an explosion at a fireworks plant - worker, 46, died from injuries he suffered in the fire - the storehouse had been used to temporarily store fireworks under production)

Chemical spill at Esso refinery (one building was evacuated and two workers were sent to hospital after a chemical was spilled in a laboratory at the refinery - two litres of the chemical was spilled when it was being delivered to the lab - company didn’t release the name of the chemical but said it was used in the lab for testing various products)

Fire Incident at American Biofuels Bakersfield Biodiesel Facility (the accident happened outside of the plant building when, during a transfer of methanol, a small spill occurred that ignited (ignition source unknown, probable cause static electricity) - the plant was in full production mode when the outside fire spread into the building - the operators followed their training and safety procedures and quickly shut down operations - then, when they could not contain the fire with on-site extinguishers, they left the premises and quickly notified the Fire Department and personnel in the other buildings located on the property - no other buildings were affected because they were not in close proximity - unfortunately the plant suffered a total loss of the building and equipment)

Fire extinguished at Joliet chemical plant (firefighters quickly extinguished a fire in a processing unit at the chemical plant - all personnel were accounted for and there were no injuries - the cause of the fire, which was extinguished in about 30 minutes, is under investigation - the unit in question has been shut down and the rest of the plant is operating normally)

Fire breaks out at paper-products firm in Tolleson (a machinery malfunction was blamed for a first-alarm fire that erupted at a paper-products manufacturer - no other details)

Injured crane operator in fair condition (a man is in fair condition after being trapped under an 86-thousand-pound crane for almost an hour - two cranes were attempting to load a third upper crane deck onto a base when one of the cranes malfunctioned and sent the deck crashing into the ground - 45-year-old crane operator suffered leg injuries and a broken arm and wrist when his cab was slammed up against the upper crane deck that was lying on the ground)

Crane accident at Syncrude injures six (six workers were injured when a crane fell on a trailer - all six employees had minor injuries - crane was in the area doing some shutdown work - believes some of the injured workers were near the crane but she’s not sure if the others were inside the trailer when the crane fell)

UPDATE Six hurt as crane crushes building ( I will be posting accident photos of this incident this week in the members area)

Electrical accident kills drilling worker (the boom of a drilling rig struck a power line electrocuting one worker and injuring another - the men, employees of a water well driller were working in a vacant lot where a house is being built - the surge of electricity struck the drilling rig and the two men - it blew out a front tire and ignited a fire that burned in and around the equipment)

Explosion hits mine (the explosion was caused by ignition of methane gas near a rock face where a longwall machine mines coal - all the miners were "successfully withdrawn" within two hours)

UPDATE Investigation continues into worker's accident at Walker facility (worker, 42, a 15-year veteran of recycling operations, suffered a serious head injury and died when something struck him while he was changing the grates of a scrapping machine - was an experienced worker who had performed routine maintenance on the shredder before)

One person injured in Windalco explosion (an explosion rocked the number eight vertical digester at about 3.30 p.m., throwing the worker on the roof of the building, injuring him - he was conducting a cleaning operation at the plant when the explosion occurred - suffered injuries to his chest and arms, and is said to be in stable condition and undergoing treatment)

16 killed in garment factory collapse in Dhaka (at least 16 people, including a child and two women, were killed and 35 others wounded in a building collapse - the building formerly used as a garment factory was being readied for setting up a hospital and some construction workers working inside the building were trapped)

OILMAN AIRLIFTED OVER HEART COMPLAINT (an Oil worker had to be airlifted off a platform in the North Sea and taken to hospital after suffering a suspected heart attack)

UPDATE Mutilated worker's family hits out (a man dismembered in a tree shredder last week was ordered to work on the machine that day after refusing because it was faulty, staff have told his family - the 48-year old was in a serious but stable condition after losing both his legs above his knees and his left arm below the elbow in the accident - the woman, who declined to be named, said it was sometimes necessary to get into the shredder to unblock it. Initially, she did so while the machine was operating but was told later to enter it only when it was switched off)

UPDATE Employer of electrocuted worker fined, put on probation (a company that installs guard rails was fined $10,000, ordered to pay $32,480 in penalties and placed on two years' probation in the death of a worker who was electrocuted - worker, 23, was operating a truck with a 22-foot-tall pile driver when he was killed - investigators determined that electricity arced between the boom and an overhead power line at the site)

Man, 48, electrocuted in Altona factory (paid link)

UPDATE Deadly gas was from clogged vent (a clogged sewer vent at a chemical plant is being blamed in the death of a maintenance worker last week, according to the plant's preliminary investigation of the tragedy - investigators believe hydrogen sulfide vapors from a process in another building backed up through the sewer system into the area where he was working because of a plugged vent where small amounts of the gas would normally escape)

GSA Worker Electrocuted (officers and firefighters found the 46-year-old man unconscious in the basement of a building - investigators believe he was electrocuted)

Poison Air Detected In 26 Miners' Location (the search for 65 miners who were trapped by a coal mine explosion in Mexico on Sunday is being suspended)

Crash kills utility worker (authorities are investigating a one-vehicle accident that killed the employee - initial investigation shows the truck was westbound when it struck the north guardrail on the approach to the bridge)

UPDATE Solutia burn victims remain unchanged (the four were performing routine maintenance on a pump when it sprayed them with a chemical produced by the company for making nylon fibers and plastic - the conditions of three workers hospitalized for chemical burns remained unchanged)

Exxon Mobil worker electrocuted (an electrician at the refinery remained in critical condition after being electrocuted - an investigation of the cause of the incident has begun)

At least 65 die in textile factory fire (at least 65 people were killed and more than 100 hurt when a fire swept through a locked textile factory crowded with night-shift workers - up to 500 people, mainly women, were believed to be working in the textile factory in the southern city of Chittagong when the fire broke out -  firefighters had found the main entrance to the factory locked and were forced to rescue trapped workers by breaking open windows and using ropes)

Hazmat teams probe mystery gas (state and local hazardous material experts are trying to identify a gas that escaped from a storage cylinder at a compressed-gas business and led to the brief hospitalization of an employee who was preparing to test the container - employee was preparing to hydrotest the cylinder, a process in which the valve is pulled and the cylinder is filled with water under high pressure to ensure that it retains its shape - the employee immediately noticed an odor and resealed the valve and evacuated the plant)

Two oil workers die as pipeline bursts (two oil workers drowned when a leaking pipeline burst, flooding the 3-meter deep trench in which they were working with an oil emulsion - the accident occurred at an oil gathering line - the two men, aged 42 and 38, had descended into a specially prepared trench to perform the repair when the 17-inch pipe broke, filling the trench with emulsified crude (89 percent water and 11 percent crude) - the workers were unable to climb out of the trench and drowned)

Local brief: Silica accident lands one in hospital (the first lost-time accident at the plant in seven years - a mid-afternoon industrial accident sent one person to the hospital - no other details)

Lightning bolt strikes Huntsman plant (link issues)

Chemical fire breaks out at Dow Corning (an early morning fire at the facility closed roads and kept firefighters on task for five hours as they worked to extinguish flames - at its peak the fire covered a six- by six-foot area - the time it took to extinguish the process tower fire was a matter of being able to safely get to, and shut off the valve feeding it - no employees were injured in the incident caused by a leak of a chlorosilane-based material, which is a chemical compound consisting of silicon, carbon, hydrogen and chlorine - the cause is still being investigated)

Two workers hurt in Fort Wainwright Fire (two workers are recovering from burns received in an explosion and fire - officials say the civilian workers suffered second-degree burns and lacerations in the fire, which broke out at the coal-fired power plant - the explosion occurred near one of two conveyors that bring coal into the almost 60-year-old plant)

Explosion rocks cereal plant (an explosion at the plant damaged a building but did not injure anyone - an explosion in a dust collection bin was reported at 7:43 a.m - the bin, measuring about 10 feet high and eight feet in diameter, was in the feed plant - the explosion damaged the roof, windows and some fire doors in the building)

Smoke shuts down Byron nuclear plant (a small electrical fire broke out at the Nuclear Generating Station, but it caused no injuries and no radiation was released)

Crane blamed for power outage (crane on the barge somehow got into the lines - no other details)

Forklift tragedy woman named (a woman, 24, died after a forklift truck fell on top of her - no other details)

UPDATE Burlington Technologies Inc. fined $125,000 for Health and Safety violation (a worker entered an access gate on a "die-casting machine" (a machine that produces metal forms for automotive parts) to see if the machine's "launder" (a device through which molten material passes) had become clogged when the worker was struck by a "ladle" (a scooping device) containing molten metal. The worker was able to duck to avoid being pinned between the ladle and launder, but the worker's shirt caught on fire. The worker received second and third degree burns to the back - investigation found an "interlock safety switch" (an electronic device) on the access gate was broken. If functioning, the switch would have automatically shut down the machine when the gate was opened in order to prevent the worker from coming in contact with moving parts on the die-casting machine)