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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #5
updated on 05/06/2010
Two labourers die as trench caves in Express News Service Ahmedabad, January 24 TWO labourers died when the trench they were digging near Bhilwas area of Sardarnagar here, caved in on Friday afternoon. They were laying a sewerage pipeline for the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The deceased have been identified as Suresh Bhanji...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #4
updated on 05/06/2010
UPDATE, Trench victim talks By Rachael Ruiz (Kent County, October 23, 2002, 6:10 p.m.) A Sparta man is home and feeling good tonight. The same man who was trapped in a construction trench in Grand Rapids Township for more than two hours yesterday. 32 year old Keith Zwyghuizen has a few reminders of what he calls the scariest experience...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #3
updated on 05/06/2010
Trench collapses, workman dies By MICHELLE FRIEDRICH ~ Associate Editor What began as a rescue operation this morning ended more than two hours later after city and county crews extracted a man who was buried...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #2
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Backhoe Severs buried Electrical Power CABLE
On February 12, 2002, at the construction site for the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a backhoe operator struck and severed a buried 240-volt temporary power cable with his backhoe bucket. This tripped a circuit breaker and the operator...
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Trenching & Excavation Accidents #1
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Gas leak forces evacuation of several homes CUMBERLAND — Several houses on Marshall Avenue were evacuated Tuesday morning after contractors working on a water main accidentally ruptured an underground natural gas line. A police officer working traffic detail reported the break at 11:23 a.m., after a backhoe...
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OSHA’s Trenching Accident Investigation Summaries
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #1
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #2
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #3
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #4
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #5
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #6
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #7
Trenching & Excavation Accidents #8 (most recent acci...
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Road Work Accidents Page #2
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Worker Injured In Accident (deputies are still investigating a mid-morning accident that injured a worker standing on the side of the road – the accident happened around 9:00 a.m. along Highway 43 – county dispatcher says an 18-wheeler was in the middle of unloading when...
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Road Work Accidents Page #1
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
UPDATE Kentucky Construction Worker Dies After Accident Man Suffers Injuries Monday A Kentucky road worker has died from injuries he suffered while working on a street in Villa Hills, Ky., a suburb of Cincinnati. Frank...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #8
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Worker hurt after falling from forklift (a man is in hospital with serious head injuries after falling from a forklift – the accident occurred at a building – two workers were removing scrap metal from the ceiling of a building that was being demolished when one of the men fell from...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #7
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
UPDATE Firms fined over forklift accidents Aug 29 2003 By Elwyn Roberts TWO North Wales firms yesterday ended up with bills of nearly £20,000 for injuries to workers caused by forklift truck accidents. One woman had a broken leg, while in a separate case a worker escaped with his life after being crushed by a truck....
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #6
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
UPDATE Worker dies after backhoe accident Thursday, May 22, 2003 By ASHANTI M. ALVAREZ STAFF WRITER WEST PATERSON – A construction worker accidentally run over by a backhoe on a work...
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Mobile Equipment Accidents #5
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Worker has leg crushed by steel Jan 25, 2003, 3:15pm A worker was flown to hospital with serious leg injuries after he was crushed under a steel coil weighing 200kgs. Wayne Miles, aged 31, was involved in the accident at Steel Processing Midland Ltd in Chasetown, Burntwood, at 12.15pm yesterday. Paramedics arrived on the...
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