Weekly Toll: Death on the Job
How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…
A newsletter of workplace safety and labor issues
How workers died over the past few weeks: I was on vacation for a couple of weeks, so this is…
Last week workers were killed in falls, explosions, fire, logging incidents, shootings, vehicle crashes, construction incidents, a grain silo collapse…
Last week workers were crushed in a trench collapse, machinery and by a falling pipe. A worker died of a…
Last week: Workers crushed by trees and stone slab, killed by mass shooter, hit by cars, killed by forklift, electrocuted…
I was away for a couple of weeks, so running behind. In this report, workers died from falls, drowned, were…
Workers crushed in yet another trench collapse, caught in machinery, crushed under falling equipment, killed in explosions, falling from heights,…
Notes: Seven of the 21 deaths listed here this week were from falls. Hard to believe. Gravity is not a…
Man run over while overhauling bus at Chicago Heights junkyard Chicago, IL — A man died after being run over by…
I’ve been away, so it’s a long, depressing list this week. Lowlights include 11 public employees in states that don’t…
Bad couple of weeks for workers in Kansas and firefighters across the country. Also two trench deaths and a food…