Killed on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Explosion, falls, construction incidents, drowning, firefighting, falling objects, farming incident, shootings and vehicular collisions. On…
Victims of Gross Negligence: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Falling objects, explosions, tree care, rollovers, transit death, welding, electrocution, firefighting, vehicular incidents, occupational cancer,…
Mourning for Preventable Deaths: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: trench collapse, grain bin, heat(?), tree care, electrocutions, lightning, flooding, industrial incidents, grain bin incident,…
Heat Related Death? Who Knows?
Careful readers of yesterday’s Weekly Toll may have noted the death of UPS driver Umeshkumar Thakkar on July 20 near…
Failure to Survive Work: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Trench collapses, heat, rollovers, coal mining, firefighting, occupational cancer, cell tower, skid steer, explosions, grain…
Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: industrial incidents, falls, storm cleanup, occupational cancer, construction incidents, skid steer incidents, tree care, vehicular…
Occupational Fatalities: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: grain bin incident, farming, tree care, copper mine, fall, industrial incidents, equipment malfunctions, railroad, explosion,…
Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Falls, firefighting, grain bin suffocation, lumber mill, vehicular collisions, forklifts, shootings, occupational cancer. On average,…
Dead on the Job: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: Eleven die in paper mill explosion, six die in separate highway work zone incidents, electrocution,…
No Accidents, Only Oversights: The Weekly Toll
How workers died last week: helicopter crash, fall, occupational cancer, explosions, electrocution, skid steer rollover, head injury, and crushed by…