Weekly Toll: Human Statistics Who Won’t Be Coming Home
A list of a few of the workers in this country who died on the job last week.
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Weekly Toll: Three Weeks of Death on the Job
Excuse the length of this depressing exercise, but I’ve been away for a couple of weeks and unlike me, workplace death takes no vacation. The usual falls, machinery deaths, vehicle accidents. Also several sanitation workers lost their lives over the past several week, as well as retail workers shot on the job. From Alabama to…
Weekly Toll: Some Workplace Deaths Last Week
Notes: Seven of the 21 deaths listed here this week were from falls. Hard to believe. Gravity is not a recent discovery. “Only 21 deaths were listed this week. That’s all I could find in the media. But an average of 14 workers are killed on the job every day. That’s 98 per week. Sometimes…
Weekly Toll: September is Finished, but Workplace Deaths Go On
2 Mississippi police officers dead, suspect in custody after shootout BROOKHAVEN, Miss. — Two police officers were shot and killed following an early Saturday morning confrontation in Mississippi, authorities said. Warren Strain of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at a news conference that the officers were called to a house in the city…
Weekly Toll: Employees Killed at Work
CONSTRUCTION ACCIDENT KILLS WORKER AT SELMON EXTENSION TAMPA, FL – A Land o’ Lakes man died Saturday (Sept. 15) while working at the Selmon West Extension project, the Tampa Police Department said. Kadri Elmazi, 68, of Land O’ Lakes, died at the scene. Mr. Elmazi was operating a “roller” machine on a dirt embankment when the machine toppled,…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workers Reporting for the Final Shift
Death Toll in California’s Carr Wildfire Raises to 7 as Utility Worker Dies CLEARLAKE, Calif. — A utility worker was killed near a Northern California wildfire as crews working in sweltering conditions battled multiple blazes, including twin fires that exploded in size and forced hundreds more to evacuate rural communities, officials said Sunday. The Pacific…
Weekly Toll: Workers Killed on the Job Over the Past Two Weeks
2 firefighters killed as blaze rages in northern California REDDING, CALIF. —The National Park Service reports a second firefighter has died while battling the Ferguson Fire in Mariposa County. On Sunday morning, Capt. Brian Hughes of the Arrowhead Interagency Hotshots was killed. According to the National Park Service, 33-year-old Hughes was on the east side of…
Weekly Toll: Workers Not Coming Home From Work Last Week
1 worker killed, 1 hurt after Dumpster falls at NC Campbell’s Soup plant, reports say MAXTON, N.C. (WNCN) – One worker died (Alex Radford, 53) and another was hurt in an incident involving a large trash bin at the Campbell’s Soup plant in Robeson County on Sunday, media reports said. WMBF reported that a Dumpster…
Weekly Toll: Workplace Deaths Over the Last Two Weeks
I took a week off compiling this list. No change in the deadly work that American workers do, except that workers have fewer rights than they did two weeks ago — especially public employees. In other news, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill requiring OSHA to start listing names of workers killed on their…
Weekly Toll: The Last Shift
Genesee Power Station employee dies in workplace accident FLINT, MI – An employee died in an industrial accident at the Genesee Power Station last week. CMS Energy, which owns the facility, released a statement Monday confirming the worker’s death. The worker’s name and the circumstances leading to his death were not released. CMS is the parent…