Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How Workers Died Last Week: Bridge collapse, crushed by granite, chemical and pipe explosions, tree trimming, fire, electrocution, vehicle incidents,…
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How Workers Died Last Week: Bridge collapse, crushed by granite, chemical and pipe explosions, tree trimming, fire, electrocution, vehicle incidents,…
How workers died last week: Machinery, drowning, crushed, stabbing, shooting, vehicle incidents. On average, over 100 workers are killed every…
How workers died last week: Two trench collapses, electrocution, wood chipper, falls, shootings, stabbing, vehicle incidents, suicide. On average, over…
How workers died last week: Two workers, including a teenager dies on farms, vehicle incidents, drowning, firefighting, stabbing, helicopter crash.…
Many families are not having a happy holiday. How Workers Died Last Week: Killed by falling block, crushed in machinery,…
Either fewer workers were killed Thanksgiving week (because fewer were working) or fewer reporters reported on workplace fatalities (because fewer…
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…
A particularly tragic week in the workplace. Another heat death, teenager killed, 3 workers die in scaffold collapse, two workers…
Last week, workers were crushed in machines, and killed in falls, shootings, vehicular incidents and tree trimming. And a 16-year…