Weekly Toll: Killed at Work
How workers died last week: Confined space, falls, logging, grain bin, skid steer, electrocution, fork lift, fire fighting, vehicle incidents,…
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How workers died last week: Confined space, falls, logging, grain bin, skid steer, electrocution, fork lift, fire fighting, vehicle incidents,…
How workers died over the past couple of weeks: three dead in trench collapses, heat, electrocution, machinery, firefighting, forklift, falls,…
How workers died last week: Heat stroke, trapped in an industrial oven, tree care, silo collapse, overturned heavy equipment, electrocutions,…
How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, falls, fire, explosions, coal mining, helicopter crash, vehicle incidents, stabbing, shootings. On average,…
How workers died last week: Heat, electrocution, drownings, shootings, wood chipper, bee attack, firefighting, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100…
How workers died last week: Two hospital workers killed, machinery, forklift, logging and vehicle incidents, falls, shootings. On average, over…
Three 18-year-olds dead. How workers died last week: Electrocution, falls, machinery, vehicle incidents, tree care, drowning, forklift, confined space and…
Trench collapse, falling trees, traffic incidents, building collapses, shootings, falls. On average, almost 100 workers are killed every day in…
Armageddon is coming — courtesy of a few Republican governors who believe that strong opposition to vaccine mandates has become…
When I walked into my new job at AFSCME on November 1, 1982, I was immediately given the workplace safety…