Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Fatalities
Another week, and another list of preventable deaths. Two double fatalities this week: Two workers killed in a power plant…
Weekly Toll: Last Week’s Workplace Deaths
Man dies in pressroom accident at Pennsylvania newspaper ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A contractor (Ruben Ocasio-Fernandez, 32)became trapped underneath a piece…
Weekly Toll: Workers Die Every Other Hour of Every Day
Tree trimmer dies in accident at Stanford housing complex Palo Alto, CA — A 36-year-old man died while working on…
Weekly Toll: More Workers Not Coming Home at the End of the Day
Mechanic dies after car falls on him in east Las Vegas auto body shop LAS VEGAS, NV — A mechanic…
Weekly Toll: Nothing New on the Workplace Death Front
Salisbury Chemical Plant Employee Dies After Falling Into Open Tank Salisbury, NC — The employee who died in a workplace…
Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace
A couple more public employees and a “freak accident.” Wanna bet? One dead after industrial accident at Vulcraft in Norfolk,…
Weekly Toll: Mourning for the Dead
Two Fatalities Confirmed in Helicopter Crash Near Smethport Keating Twp, PA — Two workers were killed when a helicopter performing…
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Weekly Toll: The Monthly Version
FedEx truck driver killed after crashing over highway in Texas DALLAS, TX — A fiery crash killed the driver of…
Weekly Toll
Man, 32, Killed After Barge Overturns in Guilford GUILFORD, CT — One person is dead after a barge carrying eight…