Confined Space Accidents #2 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   Missaukee farmer killed in silo mishap By Judy Toomey, Staff Writer October 09, 2002  LUCAS — A Missaukee County farmer died Tuesday morning while working in the top of a silo on his Lucas farm. According to Missaukee County Sheriff’s Office reports, David Schutte, 46, was attempting to level corn away from equipment when he was...

Confined Space Accidents #1 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   UPDATE, Ship Officer Charged in Death Wed Feb 6, 8:51 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. – A ship officer was indicted on misconduct and negligence charges Wednesday in the death of a crewman ordered to clean the ship’s emptied cargo tanks while they were still filled with toxic fumes. Master Gilbert C. Thurston, chief officer...

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The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) was developed by Dr. Scott Shappell and Dr. Doug Wiegmann. It is a human error methodology originally used by the US Air Force to investigate and analyze human factors in aviation. Some of you may recognize HFACS in another form, based on James Reason’s Swiss Cheese model. The HFACS framework describes human error at each of the...

Emergency Services Accident Page #2 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 Firefighter dies after being trapped in burning house (a volunteer firefighter who was injured when a floor collapsed beneath him in a burning home has died – he became trapped in the basement of the burning house – seven other firefighters suffered lesser injuries rescuing him – he was an Indiana certified...

Emergency Services Accident Page #1 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 South Carolina Firefighter Burned In Flashover HEATHER CASPI Firehouse.Com News A South Carolina firefighter suffered serious burns when he became disoriented and trapped after a flashover at a live-fire training exercise Monday. Tom Jurgensmeyer, 25, suffered second, third, and fourth degree burns over 26 percent of...