Fiscal Year | Summary Report Date | Date of Incident | Company | Preliminary Description of Incident |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/20/09 | OZ Technology, Inc., Rathdrum, ID 83858 | Decedent was working inside a mobile home, mixing propane and butane to make a substitute refrigerant. A fire occurred. The cause of death was determined to be carbon monoxide asphyxiation. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/21/09 | Dennis Powell Loggin, St. Maries, ID 83861 | Decedent was driving a log truck uphill to pick up a load of logs. The truck left the road and went 200 feet down a hill. Decedent was thrown for the truck. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/23/09 | Hines Construction Company, Sparta, GA 31087 | Employees were installing roof trusses 20 feet from ground level, when 50 trusses fell in a domino effect crushing the employees. One employee fatality and to employees were hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/24/09 | U E Power Train dba Bucks Engines, Amarillo, TX 79109 | Decedent was observed standing behind the parts counter, conscious but bleeding from the head. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/25/09 | Innovative Masonry, LLC, Hoboken, NJ 07030 | Decedent fell 4-ft, 8-inches off a platform, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/25/09 | St. Peter Catholic Church, Deland, FL 32720 | Decedent was cleaning the grout on the walls with a pressure washer, containing water, and was overexposed to carbon monoxide. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/25/09 | Tyson Foods - River Valley Animal Foods, Scranton, AR 72863 | Decedent was dumping a load of offal from a tractor trailer. He was in the process of dumping offal into a bin when the tailgate malfunctioned. Decedent was freeing the tailgate, it released, and the load swept the decedent into the offal bin. Decedent drowned in the bin. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/26/09 | Artistic Painting Company, Grand Praire, TX 75050 | Decedent was using a scaffold above 10 to 15 feet while painting. Instead of extending the scaffold, he used a step ladder on the scaffold, and feel off the scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/26/09 | UPS, Louisville, KY 40202 | The decedent returned from his break to his work area and was sitting when he fell over. He was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. It was determined the decedent died from natural causes. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/27/09 | Colorado Bell Hotel & Casino, Laughlin, NV 89028 | The decedent was not feeling well and left work early. While he was sitting waiting for the bus he collapsed and was non-responsive from an apparent heart attack. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/28/09 | B & C Auto Inc., Davenport, IA 52806 | The decedent was removing a part from an elevated truck. The truck fell crushing the decedent. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/28/09 | Brinks, Inc., Evansville, IN 47711 | Decedent was assisting in unloading material when he fell from the back of the truck, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/28/09 | Jacoby Feed & Seed, Melvin, TX 76858 | Employees were installing a tilt-wall into a trench. Decedent was inside the trench when the earth collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/28/09 | Nelson Brothers Construction Co., Eagle Mountain, UT 84005 | Decedent was operating a roller compactor on a grade. The compactor tipped over and fell on the decedent resulting in the decedent's death. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/28/09 | Zachary Construction Corp., Mansfield, LA 71052 | Decedent was walking across a tank and fell through a hatch into a tank of boiling water. He either drowned or died of thermal burns. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/29/09 | Macy's West, Las Vegas, NV 89107 | Decedent collapsed in the Macy's West store. CPR was performed. The decedent passed away at the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/30/09 | Hoffman Sawmill, Jasper, IN 46546 | Decedent was unloading logs from truck in sawmill yard. While releasing straps one of the logs rolled onto the employee. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/30/09 | Randy's Pro Landscaping Service, LLC, Milburn, NJ 07041 | Decedent was trimming a tree and fell 60 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 10/02/09 | 09/30/09 | Weight Farm, Bellfonte, PA 16823 | Decedent was inside a silo loading the feeder from a ladder. He became wedged within the ladder cage in a fetal position and suffocated. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 09/19/09 | Escalera Maintenance Corporation, Las Vegas, NV 89123 | The worker was assigned to perform irrigation maintenance work in an apartment complex. The worker was asked by a couple moving for help moving furniture. While moving a piece of furniture, the worker got on the truck, fell to the ground and hit his head. The worker was taken to the hospital where he died 14 days later. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 09/25/09 | C & S Wholesale, Mauldin, SC 29607 | The worker was operating a pallet jack, when entering an intersection drove into the stairwell. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 09/30/09 | Mattress Discounters, Las Vegas, NV 89128 | The worker was found behind the sales counter unconscious and unresponsive. The worker was pronounced dead at the scene by the coroner's office at 4:30pm. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/01/09 | International Shipping Agency, Inc., San Juan, PR 00902 | Worker was run over by an intermodal container. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/01/09 | Odyssey Painting, McKees Rocks Bridge, Pier 16, McKees Rocks, PA 15136 | Worker was sandblasting under a bridge and fell 124-feet from a two-point suspension scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/01/09 | Price Gregory Construction, W. Monroe, LA 71292 | Worker was inside the engine compartment of a backhoe changing the filters and was struck by the counter weight of another backhoe. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/01/09 | Y O Ranch Partnership, Mountain Home, TX 78058 | Worker was loading a wild barrsinghuas into a holding pen. The animal gored the decedent in the leg and back. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/02/09 | Doherty Construction, Deerfield, IL 60015 | Worker was putting in metal studs and was found on the scissor lift. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/02/09 | Target, Lady Lake, FL 32159 | Worker was found unresponsive in the employee restroom. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/03/09 | Albuguerque Treatment Center, Albuquerque, NM 87121 | The worker was in route to the Bernalillo County Detention Center to dispense medication to inmates and was struck by another car on the I-40 Frontage Road. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/03/09 | T. A. Operating LLC dba Petro Lube Center, Jackson, MS 39201 | Worker was assigned to check out a semi-trailer's front right air bag. While positioned between the two trailer axles, he was struck on the head by the left front air bag's base cup. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/04/09 | Frontier Drilling, Salem, WV 26426 | Worker was performing work on a gas drilling rig and was struck in the chest by a drill pipe. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/05/09 | Butler, Fairman & Seufert, Inc. | The worker was measuring the roadway as part of the painting process when struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/05/09 | Holts Mechanical, San Antonio, TX 78219 | Worker was carrying tools to the other side of a metal corrugated roof and fell 25-feet through one of the skylights. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/05/09 | Marine Fabrication and Repair, Houma, LA 70360 | Worker was performing welding duties aboard a marine vessel. An electrode from his welding equipment contacted the sweat on his neck, causing an electric shock. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/05/09 | McPherson Electric, Tallahassee, FL 32305 | Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/06/09 | Ace Flooring, Inc., Mesa, AZ 85205 | The worker was crushed under a 12-foot long, 3-inch diameter carpet roll. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/06/09 | Daughtry Tree Service, Archer, FL 32501 | Worker was trimming trees and was electrocuted, after the aerial lift contacted an overhead powerline, causing the bucket truck to become energized. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/06/09 | Kroy Industries, Inc., Ulysses, KS 67880 | Worker was operating a line 2 extrusion machine and was struck by a plug at the end of the line. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Buckhorn, Inc., Springfield, MO 65803 | Worker was cleaning the hardened plastic from the mold. He was standing in between the mold plates when the machine started and was crushed between the mold plates. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Fox and Hound English Pub and Grille, Parma, OH 44129 | Worker was cleaning a pizza oven and was found later, unresponsive in the break room. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Golden Strip Transfer, Inc., North Charleston, SC 29408 | Worker was locking down a shipping container to the bed of his truck and was struck by the rubber tire crane. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Las Vegas, NV 89101 | The worker was traveling in a patrol vehicle when the patrol vehicle left the road, struck a stationary object and rolled over. The worker was taken to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Pages Creek Marine Services, Inc., Wilmington, NC 28411 | The worker used a set of 2-ton underslung hoists to raise a boat on a trailer. The boat fell, crushing the worker between the boat and the left rear of the trailer. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/07/09 | Werner Construction, Inc., Norfolk, NE 68701 | Worker was washing flights on an auger of a concrete machine and was pulled into the flights of the auger. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/08/09 | Wayne's Plumbing, Taylor, TX 76574 | Worker was under a home doing plumbing work in a tunnel, dug under the concrete foundation using an electrical shovel type drill, and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/09/09 | Duckels Construciton Inc., Steamboat Springs, CO 80487 | Worker was struck by a pipe cap in the back. |
FY 2010 | 10/09/09 | 10/09/09 | Radley Electric, Sour Lake, TX 77659 | Employees were splicing a de-energized downed oil field line. The oil field line got into a 7300-volt line, electrocuting one worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 09/14/09 | Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, NV 89103 | The worker complained of a headache and was transported to the hospital. The worker passed away from natural causes on September 24, 2009. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 09/16/09 | Rocky Mountain Roofing Company, Albuquerque, NM 87114 | The worker was installing metal coping at the roof edge when he lost his balance and fell tot he ground. The worker was hospitalized and died on October 9, 2009. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/12/09 | Cliff's Auto Service Center, Springtown, TX 76082 | Worker was changing a fluorescent overhead light and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/12/09 | Hill Construction Corp., San Juan, PR 00908 | Worker fell 70-feet into a gap that was on the formwork while removing the excess plaster. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/12/09 | Masonry Preservation Group, Inc., Philadelphia, PA 19103 | Worker was in the cage of an aerial lift with the boom extended 95-feet when the lift tipped over, falling to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/12/09 | Reilly Construction Co. Inc., Ossian, IA | The worker was replacing a pivot pin on the equalizer bar under a bulldozer. The bulldozer was supported with jack stands. The worker was under the bulldozer when it fell off the jack stands and crushed him. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/13/09 | Lambert Roofing, Paisley, FL 32767 | Worker was carrying tiles on residential roof. He backed up into an overhead power line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/14/09 | Diamond Jacks Casino & Resort, Bossier City, LA 71111 | Worker was investigating a water leak in a public stairwell between the 1st and 2nd decks. He opened a secured door leading to the exterior of the boat and fell through. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/14/09 | Material Sciences Corporation, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 | Worker was wrapping an 18,000-lb steel coil while the coil was on an exit coil cart. The steel coil came off from the cart and fall on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/14/09 | Morgan Keller, Inc., Union Bridge, MD 21791 | Worker was crushed between a truck and a building. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/15/09 | Stamer, Inc. dba Fulton Plumbing, Heating, Air, Atlanta, GA | Worker was working in an unprotected trench installing a sewer/water line. A portion of the trench caved in, fully engulfing the worker and trapping another employee, who was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/15/09 | Terra Engineering, Ltd., Peoria, IL 61604 | Worker was in the process of installing traffic counts and was hit by a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/16/09 | Borggard Construction Corporation, Northboro, MA 01532 | Worker was working on a skid steer machine and was pinned between the arms of the machine and the machine frame. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/16/09 | Fellow Roofing, Ltd., Broadview, IL 60155 | Worker was performing roofing work on a low slope roof and fell through an unprotected skylight. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 09/06/10 | Village of Tarrytown Tarrytown, NY 10591 | Two workers were killed from a possible fall and/or oxygen deficiency while entering a permit-required confined space manhole. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/11/10 | Rose Hill Conference Center Nashville, NC 27856 | Worker was operating a small tractor that overturned and pinned him underneath. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/13/10 | BAE Systems, York, PA 17408 | Worker was operating an aerial lift and got caught between the lift and an overhead door's overhang. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/15/10 | Willoway Nurseries Inc., Huron, OH 44839 | Worker was operating his personal vehicle at a railroad crossing and was struck by a train. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/16/10 | (Company name not determined) Long Beach, CA 90603 | Fisherman was electrocuted on a boat at sea as he was changing a capacitor in a breaker box. (U.S. Coast Guard is investigating.) |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/17/10 | Haberle Steel Inc., Souderton, PA 18964 | Worker was crushed by a section of steel plate. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/18/10 | ArcelorMittal, Vinton, TX 79835 | Worker was lighting up a gas furnace. An explosion occurred and the worker was struck on the head by falling debris. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/19/10 | Bush & Burchett, Inc., Catlettsburg, KY 41129 | Worker was measuring a grade for the bridge brackets, outside the life-line system, on the I-64 bridge when he fell approximately 30 feet to the ground below. He was wearing a fall protection harness, but was not tied off. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/20/10 | Federouch Landscape Supply, Carnegie, PA 15106 | Worker without fall protection was replacing sections of a roof. He fell through a 40-inch opening in the roof and down 31 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/20/10 | Roy Case Construction, Mountain Pine, AR 71956 | Worker was operating crane when crane tipped. Worker fell and was crushed between crane cab and a wall. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/21/10 | Qualico Steel Company, Inc. , Webb, AL 36376 | While changing and wiring two heaters, worker turned on electricity to check wiring. He forgot to turn off the electricity and was electrocuted by 480 volts upon contact. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/21/10 | Wright Brothers Construction Company,Inc., Charleston, TN 37304 | Worker lost control of an articulating dump truck at a landfill. The truck flipped over, pinning the operator under the motor compartment. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/22/10 | Alliance Electric LLC, Harpers Ferry, WV 25425 | Worker was holding end of the hose while pouring concrete from pump truck. Truck's boom contacted overhead line, electrocuting worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/22/10 | Grayco Construction Co. of TN, LLC, Conway, AR 72032 | Worker had parked a water tank truck on an incline. While filling the truck's tank, the truck rolled down the incline and over the worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/23/10 | TKH Northeast, Inc., Hornell, NY 14843 | Worker was operating an earth roller that tipped and crushed him. |
FY 2010 | 10/16/09 | 10/23/10 | Universal Plumbing, Augusta, GA 30904 | While worker was uncovering a sewer pipe with a shovel in a trench approximately 6 feet deep when the trench collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 07/21/09 | Marino Construction, San Juan, PR 00918 | Two workers were plastering walls at an elevated height of 150-feet, a mast scaffold was used as a working platform. The scaffold platform became loose and fell to the ground, killing the two workers. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 09/27/09 | Flat Top Ranch LLC, 2521 Fishhook Park Road, Prescott, WA 99348 | The worker was attempting to hook up a tractor grader to a semi that lost traction while ascending a hill. The grader was parked in front of the semi. The grader lost brakes, rolled back crushing the worker between the grader and the semi truck. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/02/09 | Oakwood Apts., Lake Jackson, TX 77566 | Worker was doing repairs on the roof of apartments using a 24-foot aluminum extension ladder. He descended from the ladder, stepping on the first step and fell 20-22 feet. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/07/09 | All About Care Heating & Air Conditioning, Winston Salem, NC 27107 | The worker was working on the roof on a home when the worker fell through a hole in the roof and hit his head against the concrete floor of the basement. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead on October 9, 2009. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/08/09 | AAA Seattle Best Autobody Inc., Seattle, WA 98133 | The worker was removing a bumper from a wrecked SUV. The worker jacked up the rear of the SUV and was underneath removing the bumper when the jack collapsed pinning the worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/08/09 | Town of Plainfield Polic Department, Plainfield, CT 06374 | The worker collapsed while responding to an aggressive dog call at a resident's address. The worker died 9 days later in the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/14/09 | Maderera Donestevez Inc., Carolina, PR 00979 | The worker was working on dispatching merchandise and was pinned against the merchandise by the fork lift being driven by another employee. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/15/09 | Color Corporation of America, Louisville, KY 40210 | The worker collapsed while filling production barrels. The worker was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/16/09 | JSJ Tile & Stone, Inc., Bradenton, FL 34209 | Worker was struck by a pick-up truck that was backing up from a warehouse. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/16/09 | Souter Construction, Menifee, AR 72107 | Worker fell off a boarding ramp to a docked tug and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/16/09 | Tri-County Trucking & Excavating, Hermann, MO 65041 | Worker was unloading a D76 Dozer and was trapped by the dozer. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/17/09 | Steve Bolin Logging, Hamburg, AR 71646 | Worker was waiting in line to be loaded out at a mill. He had exited his truck to check on something on the trailer in front of him. While doing so the truck pull forward. The trailer tires struck and traveled over the worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/17/09 | Wong Potatoes Inc., Merrill, OR 97603 | The worker was run over by a trailer while harvesting onions. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/18/09 | American Packaging Corp., Columbus, WI 53925 | Worker was using a hand-held grinder on floor bolts when sparks ignited flammable vapors in the area. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/18/09 | E & C Construction Oc., Newark, NJ 07104 | Worker fell 30-feet from a roof to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/18/09 | Mark-It Stripping Corp., Berywn, IL 60402 | Worker was marking a roadway for striping operations and was struck by an automobile. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/18/09 | Marlette Homes, Inc., Ledyard, CT 06339 | Worker was installing trimming and fell, hitting his head against the kitchen island. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/19/09 | Unknown, Broomfield, CO 80023 | Worker was doing construction operations and was struck by a road grader. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/20/09 | Dobson Brothers Construction Company, Lincoln, NE 68501 | During the interface between an asphalt paving machine and the asphalt truck, the rear tire of the truck exploded. The worker was struck be the exploding tire debris and release of pressure. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/20/09 | Hunter Maintenance & Leasing, Inc., Chicago, IL 60609 | Worker was replacing a hydraulic cylinder which raised the hopper of a street sweeping vehicle. The decedent had raised the hopper and was working within the framework, when the hopper dropped, crushing the worker between the hopper and the framework. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/20/09 | Sutherland Builders Inc., Penn Yan, NY 14527 | Worker was struck/crushed by walls and roof of a building after a dump truck fell onto the building. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/21/09 | Ace Roofing, Carbondale, CO 81623 | Worker was working in the attic space of a residential home securing a ventilation line and fell through the attic floor. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/21/09 | Harris Rathole Service, Midland, TX 79701 | Worker was holding the lid of a derrick truck while the derrick was being raised. The derrick contacted overhead power transmission lines and the worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/22/09 | Johnson Western Gunite Company, Kermit, WV 25674 | Worker was operating an excavator and was crushed after the wall collapsed on the excavator. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/22/09 | P & B Partitions, Inc., Verona, PA 15147 | Worker was in the process of moving a scissor lift using a lull to move it from floor to floor. Worker entered the scissor lift to drive it off the forks, a portion of the concrete plank landed on the worker, who was in the scissor lift. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/23/09 | Brug Electric, Golden, CO 80401 | Worker was working on a light fixture from a ladder 15-feet above the ground and fell, possible shock. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/23/09 | David Gooding Inc., Brockton, MA 02302 | Worker was sruck by an object that fell from a shelving rack. |
FY 2010 | 10/23/09 | 10/23/09 | TD & I Cable Maintenance, Lakeland, MN 55043 | The worker was pulling cables or cutting cables and hit a 13,000 line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/22/09 | Downey's Contracting LLC, Lexington, KY 40510 | The worker was descending a ladder when suddenly he collapsed to the ground. CPR was administered but the worker's heart did not respond. The coroner ruled out the fall as a cause of death. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/24/09 | Corrosion Control Specialist, Pascagoula, MS 39581 | Worker was dismantling a 40-foot high scaffold and fell. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/25/09 | CRI, Shawano, WI 55992 (Accident - Zumbrota Minnesota) | Worker was unloading bulls from a truck into the chute. One bull kicked the gate, knocking the worker over, hitting his head on the concrete. There was traumatic head injury with brain swelling. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/25/09 | Gulf Stream Marine Inc., Brownsville, TX 78526 | Worker was unloading a vessel and was struck by a loose spinning cargo sling chain. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/26/09 | Insituform Technologies, Inc., West Hartford, CT 06107 | Worker was crossing a street to get to a work zone and was struck by a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/26/09 | Val-O-Mo Farm, Inc., Elmwood, WI 54740 | Worker was operating a skid-steer cleaning out a dairy cattle barn near an outdoor manure slurry pit. The skid-steer and the worker fell off the end of the push-off platform into the manure slurry pit, trapping the worker in the vehicle. Worker died of suffocation due to inhalation of manure. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/27/09 | Hardin Memorial Hospital, Elizabethtown, KY 42701 | The worker had shortness of breath upon arriving at work. The worker was taken to the ER and went into cardiac arrest and died. The cause of death was cardiac arrest or pulmonary embolism. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/27/09 | J & M Trucking, Ely, NV 89301 | The worker was driving to Duckwater. The left front tire on the concrete blew out, which caused the truck to flip killing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/29/09 | Ceres-Midland, Fairmount, IN 46928 | The worker was trapped in a large auger attached to a grain silo. |
FY 2010 | 10/30/09 | 10/29/09 | Pike Electric, Inc., Mount Airy, NC 28719 | The worker was performing maintenance on a power line when he was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/22/09 | Linde Material Handling North America Corporation, Summerville, SC 29483 | A forklift mast fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/25/09 | A-Core Concrete Cutting Inc., Salt Lake City, UT 84111 | The worker completed jack hammering a small section of concrete when a vehicle on the freeway went through the work site barricades, struck the worker, dragging him before striking a concrete barrier. The driver fled the scene killing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/26/09 | Cemeterio Mayaguez Memorial, Inc., Mayaguez PR 00681 | The worker was moving and cutting marble and granite covers. While the worker was working on one cover, it fell on the worker killing him and injuring another employee and the owner. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/28/09 | Insulation Maintenance & Contracting, LLC, North Las Vegas NV 89030 | The worker was insulating pipes from a scissor lift, when co-workers noticed the worker collapsed and unresponsive. The worker was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/28/09 | Twin City Fan Companies, Ltd., Pulaski, TN 38478 (Accident NC) | The worker was working in a confined space fixing the motor to a fan. At 4:30 the worker collapsed while inside the confined space. Worker was taken to the hospital where the doctors say the brain activity has deteriorated and will probably not come back around. Worker is not deceased at this time. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/29/09 | D&M Construction, Chandler, IN 47610 | Worker was working alone replacing gutters, louver and other work prior to painting. The worker fell from a step ladder onto flat roof. The worker did not seek any medical attention at the time. The worker was found unresponsive that same night. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/29/09 | Twiggs & Twiggs, Monck Corner, SC 29461 | The worker was cutting the limbs of a felled tree. A tree being cut struck the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/30/09 | Cooper Plastering, Inc., Bullard, TX 75757 | Worker was working from a mechanical mezzanine and fell 14-feet through a hole in the floor to the lower level. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/30/09 | Myers Contracting Company, New Carrollton, MD | The worker fell of of roof. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/30/09 | Seattle Police Department, Seattle, WA 98124 | The worker was shot multiple times in the head, neck and shoulder. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/30/09 | United Parcel Service, Inc., Lousville KY 40213 | While on lunch the worker suffered an asthma attack. The worker was taken to the hospital but did not survive. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/31/09 | Crowley-Sheppard Asphalt Co. Inc., Chicago Ridge, IL 60415 | Worker was flagging traffic in a road construction zone and was struck by a truck. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 10/31/09 | Roth Painting, LLC, Bellaire, OH 43906 | Worker was walking down steps from a utility room when he slipped or tripped. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | BS Truckline, Inc., 4080 East Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89115 | The worker was travelling on a highway and his vehicle swerved off the highway, went airborne and hit an embankment causing the worker to sustain fatal injuries. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | KBK Industries, LLC, Pfeifer, KS 67660 | Worker was delivering a fiberglass tank. He was retracting the knuckle boom on the crane back to travel position. The boom contracted a power line. Worker suffered injuries from electric shock. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | McCabe Tree Service, Harwich, MA 02645 | Worker was on an aluminum extension ladder that had been extended 30-feet cutting limbs from a tree, lost his balance and fell. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | Owensby & Kritkos, Inc., St. James, LA 70086 | Worker was working from scaffolding platform, while setting a ladder, lost his balance and fell through a 1-foot opening between the work platform and guardrail systems, 30-feet to the ground level. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | Plaquemine Point Shipyard, Sunshine, LA 70780 | Worker was performing maintenance on a tank area within the dry docked barge and upon exiting the area complained of experiencing breathing difficulties. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/02/09 | Renaissance on Peachtree, Atlanta, GA 30319 | Worker was using a ladder to change a light bulb and fell from the ladder to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/03/09 | CHS Inc., Inver Grove Heights, MN 55077 | After unloading truck, worker went to next bay and struck a few vehicles and the building across from the delivery site. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/03/09 | US Aqua Vac, Inc., Deerfield, IL 60015 | Worker was diving under water cleaning a pond and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/03/09 | WL Construction, Inc., Western Springs, IL 60558 | Worker was placing a stepladder over a stairwell to retrieve wood from a job built scaffold. Worker was standing on the ladder when the ladder shifted and fell 14-feet into the concrete stairwell. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/04/09 | MJM Carpentry, Unionville, CT 06085 | Worker was setting steel beam in house foundation and making adjustments to level the beam. The beam dislodged from its support and fell onto the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/04/09 | Penns Woods Tree Company, Allentown, PA 18109 | Workers were removing a tree by cutting the trunk into sections from an aerial bucket truck. The log was dropped 15 to 20-feet from the bucket, the worker operating the chipper had not cleared below and the log struck him on the head. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/05/09 | IHP Industrial, Inc., St. Joseph, MO 64503 | Worker was found on top of an air conditioning unit on a roof. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/05/09 | International Tank Co., Lima, OH 45804 | Worker fell 50-feet out of an Aerial Work Platform. |
FY 2010 | 11/06/09 | 11/05/09 | VNM Erector, Inc., Miami, FL 33126 | Worker was performing roadway repair and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 10/29/09 | William E. Lewis Logging, Inc., Greenville, NC 27834 | Worker was struck in the head by the top of a dead tree that was falling. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 10/30/09 | Greenman-Pedersen Inc., Edison, NJ 08837 | Worker was crushed by steam roller. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/02/09 | Randy Wagers dba R & B Roofing, Hyden, KY 47162 | The worker fell from the scaffold after being electrocuted. The worker died at the hospital while receiving treatment. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/03/09 | Wal-mart Store #58, Russellville, AR 72802 | Worker was in the process of removing a box that contained a bicycle from a storage rack. He was standing on the second or third step of a step ladder. The box fell forward and he fell from the ladder, striking his head on the floor. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/04/09 | K&W Aviation, La Porte, TX 77571 | Worker was riding on a golf cart, stood up and fell, hitting his head. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/06/09 | LAI Construction Services, Frederick, MD 21701 | Worker was backed over by bucket truck. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/06/09 | New Castle Hauling LLC, Foster, KY 41043 | The worker was operating a skidder during a logging operation when the skidder turned over. There were no witnesses. The worker was pinned under the skidder. Emergency services arrived and was pronounced dead. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/07/09 | Roger Schartz & Sons, Inc., Rose Creek, MN 55970 | Worker fell from top of truck and later died 11/8/2009. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/08/09 | Combe Laboratories, Inc., Rantoul, IL 61866 | Worker was looking up at a box performing work activities and passed out, hitting his head. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/09/09 | LU Incorporated, Clinton, TN | Two workers were checking tensioning on cables for a cable guardrail along the intestate when a pick-up truck pulling a trailer lost control and crossed the median striking both workers. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/09/09 | Wal-mart Supercenter, Las Vegas, NV 89123 | The worker collapsed in the dairy areas and was found unconscious and unresponsive by an employee. The worker was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead from an apparent heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/10/09 | Midwest Steel, Inc., Kansas CIty, MO 64108 | Worker was elevated in an aerial lift that collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/11/09 | Egenolf dba Horner Industrial Services, Indianapolis, IN 46225 | Worker was working alone and found by other employees having either fallen into or been inadvertently crushed by a moving part on a piece of equipment. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/11/09 | Quail, Inc., Springfield, IL 62703 | Worker was removing a tarp from his pickup truck and was struck by a wheel end loader, crushing him. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/12/09 | Garden City Coop, Inc., Dighton, KS 67839 | Worker was performing duty in a grain bin and was engulfed by grain. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/12/09 | Guardian Fiberglass Inc., Inwood, WV 25428 | Worker was found caught up in a roll up machine that tolls up fiberglass insulation. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/13/09 | O&G Industries, Inc., Hamden, CT 06518 | Worker was engaged in work activities including rough terrain forklift operations and construction work and was walking up an incline away from the Lull carrying a screw gun box and was struck by the right rear tire of the Lull. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/14/09 | Lopez Landscaping, San Antonio, TX 78266 | Worker was deep in a trench wrapping fence wire around the roots of an oak tree being transplanted. The wire broke and he was caught in a cave-in. |
FY 2010 | 11/13/09 | 11/14/09 | Miguel & Ulises Navarro, Suwanee, GA 30024 | Worker was re-roofing a home and while walking on the ridge of the roof, he slipped, falling to the deck below. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 06/09/09 | Canagra Food Inc. dba Conagra Snack Foods Division, Garner, NC 27529 | An explosion and collapse of the building structure resulted in 4 worker deaths with the fourth succumbing to his injuries 11/19/2009. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 10/20/09 | Gerald B. Denny, Oxford, NC 27565 | The worker was repairing a skylight on the roof. He fell through the skylight area to the concrete pad. The worker died on the scene. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 10/30/09 | KLN Enterprises, Inc., Perham, MN 56573 | Worker fell through open catwalk. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/02/09 | C.N. Construction, Inc., Killeen, TX 76549 | Worker was christmas treeing three roof opening frames and the frame at the bottom of the rigging came off the hook, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/09/09 | Keen Energy Services, Nacogdoches, TX 75961 | Worker contracted H1N1 flu. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/11/09 | Opportunity VIllage, ARC, Las Vegas, NV 89146 | The worker was working inside a rental car office. Worker was found unconscious by a customer near the office counter. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/16/09 | Big Lade Planting, Belle Glade, FL 33430 | Worker was driving a tractor pulling wagons in sugarcane harvesting, went off the road into a canal, drowning. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/16/09 | Bon Harbor Shell Station, Owensboro, KY | Worker was fatally shot during the commission of a robbery. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/16/09 | John COllier Logging, Inc., Filmore, IN 46128 | Working at a private residence curring down trees, the worker was struck b a limb in the head and died. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Associated Marine Equipment, Manchac, LA 70421 | Worker was in the process of removing a boom from a crane and knocked out 2 bottom pins from the heel section. The heel section came down, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Bristol Tennessee Essential Services, Bristol, TN 37620 | The worker was climbing a utility pole to perform routine maintenance work and came into contact with a high voltage line. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Cactus Drilling, LLC, Elk City, OK 73644 | Workers (2) were struck by a load being raised by a crane when rigging spreader came loose. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Enterprise Holdings, Weymouth, MA 02188 | Worker was crushed by an automobile that was rolling backwards. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | JJ Concrete, Inc., North Sioux CIty, SD 57049 | Worker was setting foundation forms. An excavated dirt wall caved in, burying and crushing him. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Moreau's Material Yard, Des Allemandes, LA 70030 | Worker was riding a lead system when the crawler crane tipped over causing him to be thrown from a platform, striking the boom of the crane. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Spring Kingdom, Inc., Houston, TX 77055-5402 | Worker was trapped and crushed by a concrete pallet. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/17/09 | Valcourt Building Services, Montclair, NJ 07044 | Worker was caulking an AC unit and fell off the balcony. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/18/09 | Brown Transport, Inc., West Alexandria, OH 45381 | Worker was dumping waste from papermill site that is being torn down, when dump trailer made contact with power lines. The worker exited the truck cab and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/18/09 | Elevating Boats LLC, Houma, LA 70363 | Worker was in a nearby workshop when the boom of a 200-ton crane collapsed into the workshop fatally injuring the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/18/09 | Pro Medica Health Systems, Toledo, OH 43606 | Worker was struck by a van that was backing in. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/18/09 | Topp Industries, Rochester, IN 46875 | The worker was removing a starter part. It slipped off the mandrill and fell onto the worker killing him. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/18/09 | Trico Excavating, Appleton, WI | Worker was unloading pipe and was crushed between the pipe and front end loader. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/19/09 | Dal-Tile Corporation, Cincinnati, OH 45242 | Worker was transferring granite slabs and a slab fell, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/19/09 | West Selden Construction, Incorporated, Boston, MA 02122 | Worker was in the process of climbing the frames of a scaffold to get to his work station and collapsed, falling 25-feet from the platform to the ground below. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/20/09 | Brubaker Transfer, Inc., Morton, IL 61550 | Worker was standing along side his semi-trailer, as it was being unloaded by a powered industrial truck. A bundle of steel weighing 2700-pounds fell, striking him. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/20/09 | Keen Energy Services, Nocogdoches, TX 75961 | Worker was part of a land based oil rig & natural gas well drilling rig crew and contracted the H1N1 flu. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/20/09 | Pittsburg Glass Works, Chillicothe, OH 45601 | Worker was operating an order picker and struck a rack, which pushed a pallet of glass onto the order picker. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/21/09 | Nomac Drilling, Inc., Miami, TX | Worker was working the drilling board. A drill pipe came loose striking the worker on the head. |
FY 2010 | 11/20/09 | 11/21/09 | VT Halter Marine, Escatawpa, MS | Workers were using a thinner product to prepare the inner section of the bottom hull for painting. There was a fire/explosion killing two workers and hospitalizing two other workers. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/02/09 | NYSDOT Alder Creek Sub Residency, Alder Creek, NY 13301 | A New York State Department of Transportation Highway Maintenance worker, while working as a flagman in a work zone was struck b a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/02/09 | Pfeiffer & Sons, La Porte, TX 77571 | Worker was in the process of installing a wireless point at a facility. He was using a 6-ft ladder to access the ceiling, fell backwards off the ladder, striking his head on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/02/09 | Siu's Electric Coro., Honolulu, HI 96817 | Worker was crushed between a forklift and a parked flatbed truck. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/10/09 | Purchase College, Purchase, NY 10577 | The worker, a custodial supervisor, was found dead. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/17/09 | Bradens Towing & Collision, Wheeling, WV 26003 | Worker was performing detail work on a vehicle and ingested a wheel cleaning solution. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/19/09 | AGR Contracting, Ducor, CA 93218 | Worker fell off orchard picker ladder as he was ascending with an empty orange pickers bag. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/19/09 | Bo Bo Enterprises, Cleveland, VA | Worker was struck by a tree. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/19/09 | Pilgrims PRide, Timberville, VA | Worker was struck by a delivery vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/19/09 | WA St Transportation Dept, Olumpia, WA 98501 | Worker was struck in the head b dead top of tree. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/21/09 | Village Pantry, Indianapolis, IN 46885 | Worker was working alone when two men entered the establishment. They came behind the counter and shot the worker and stole 21 cartons of cigarettes and no money. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/22/09 | Old Dominion Tree Services, Poquoson, VA | Worker (14 years old) was pulled into a wood chipper. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/23/09 | Nicor Gas, Naperville, IL 60564 | Worker was operating a Vermeer ditch witch backfilling a hole. The stringer was struck by a passing vehicle and the ditch witch tipped over, landing on top of the worker. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/23/09 | Resource Management-Chicago Ridge, L.L.C. | Worker was walking back to his location and was struck by a forklift. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/23/09 | Thompson Grassvalley, Nevada City, CA 95959 | Worker collapsed walking into the office. Possible Heat Attack - Unknown. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/24/09 | Bertils Gravel Y Excavation LLC, Crookston, MN 56716 | A trailer attached to a truck ran over the worker who was loading gravel from the ground. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/24/09 | Palacios Marine and Industrial, Corpus Christi, TX 78469 | Worker was working on the 2nd floor of a building and fell through an open door way to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/24/09 | Yellow Checker Star Cab Company, Las Vegas, NV 89118 | The worker was in his cab at the back stand at Harrah's Casino Hotel. Hotel security was notified when someone found the worker to be in an unresponsive state. He was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. |
FY 2010 | 11/27/09 | 11/27/09 | Ross Construction, Spicewood, TX 78669 | Worker was changing the hydraulic fluid in a dump truck with the dump bed raised. The dump bed fell, pinning him. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 06/14/09 | ARB, Inc., Bay Point, CA* 94565 | Worker was struck by train while in company vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 07/08/09 | Safeway, Pleasanton, CA* 94588 | Worker was found underneath the desk and pronounced dead at the scene. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 08/11/09 | CA, Transportation, Richmond, CA* 94801 | While taking tolls, a person drove up and shot the worker in the face. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 08/25/09 | Speed Link, Orinda, CA* 94563 | The worker was found in his vehicle by the Orinda P.D. and was unresponsive. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 09/04/09 | Accent Care, Walnut Creek, CA*94595 | Worker was found face down on site and taken to the hospital. Employer was informed that worker died on 9/7/2009. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 10/15/09 | SF American Taxicab, Inc., Orinda, CA*94563 | Worker's vehicle was clipped by another vehicle causing the worker's vehicle to hit an on-coming big rig. The impact between the worker's vehicle and the big rig caused the fatality. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/19/09 | Beyond Green, Inc., Paddock Lake, WI 53168 | Worker working in a tree, fell hitting their head. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/21/09 | A-Noohi Meat Packaging Co., Vernon, CA* | The worker was unloading a truck when it started rolling and pinned the worker between a wall and the tire. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/23/09 | Z-Medical Inc., Irvine, CA* 92606 | Worker got into an accident, got out of the car, walked onto the street, and was hit by another car. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/24/09 | Johnson Controls Inc., Pulaksi, TN* 38478 | Worker was adjusting the temperature leaning through a guardrail. He was struck by a roller cam, and his head was caught between the guardrail and roller cam. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/24/09 | Roseburg Forest Products Co., Riddle, OR* 97469 | Worker was on a platform by a sander. The platform gave way, and the worker fell to the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/27/09 | Dix Hills FD Headquarters, Dix Hills, NY* 11746 | Worker suffered a stroke in his home on 11/21/2009. Worker responded to alarm earlier that same day. Worker died at the hospital on 11/27/2009. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/28/09 | Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL* | While riding home from a football game, the worker was killed in an automobile accident. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/30/09 | AAA Planta Regional de Caguas, Caguas, PR* 00725 | Worker fell in underground pit tank where there were recirculating pumps. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/30/09 | King FIsher Marine Service, Inc., Port Lavaca, TX 77979 | Worker was painting a boat on the water and was unaccounted for. Worker drowned, and the body was found underwater. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 11/30/09 | Naperville School District 203, Naperville, IL* | Worker gained access to the roof of the construction area. The worker fell from a significant height and died from those injuries. It is unclear whether the worker jumped or fell from the roof. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/01/09 | Main Street Feeds Inc., Monett, MO 65708 | Worker fell from atop of a feed truck. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/01/09 | Rafael Torres dba Rafael Torres, Oak Park, IL 60302 | Worker was removing a radiator from a house, and fell 7 feet off an unguarded wood deck. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/01/09 | Salem Golf Culb, Salem, OH 44467 | Worker was cutting down a tree using a chain saw. The tree fell onto another tree, causing a branch to fall on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/01/09 | United Industrial Services, Chelmsford, MA 01824 | Worker was preparing to remove waste containers from the highway and was struck by a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/01/09 | Viking Electric, L.L.C., Phoenix, AZ* 85034 | Worker was changing the ballast on a light fixture and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/02/09 | Raymond F. Kravits Center for Performing Arts, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 | Worker was installing stage lights at a height of 25 feet from a truss system and fell. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/03/09 | Kid Jones Oil Co., Tyler, TX 75701 | Worker was standing on the medium and was struck by a car. |
FY 2010 | 12/04/09 | 12/04/09 | Valero Refinery, Texas City, TX 77590 | Worker was lighting a pilot on a boiler in a stream unit when the boiler catastrophically failed. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 11/04/09 | NYSDSP Troop F, S. Cairo, NY* 12182 | Worker was driving north in patrol vehicle when an attempt was made to pass another northbound vehicle. The vehicles made contact and the worker's vehicle went off the road and hit a utility pole. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 11/09/09 | Newell & Company, Inc. dba Robertson & Company, Moraga, CA* 94556 | Worker was performing duties when he reportedly felt ill and then collapsed from cardiac arrest. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 11/27/09 | Ulises Jardines dba Cuba Drywall, Charlotte, NC* 28211 | Worker was found unresponsive with head injuries next to an overturned stepladder. The worker never regained consciousness. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 11/29/09 | Sodexo Healthcare, Long Beach, CA* 90806 | Worker was found in employee locker room and was taken to emergency room. Worker was pronounced dead shortly after of a possible heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/01/09 | Model Dairy, Reno, NV* | Worker suffered a heart attack and died while walking to meet a forklift driver to get supplies. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/03/09 | McPherson Enterprises, Inc., Lemon Cove, CA* 93657 | Worker was crushed when the equipment he was standing on slid off the trailer it was loaded on. The worker was crushed between the bag house and the remaining equipment on the ground. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/04/09 | Pioneer Surverying and Engineering, Goldendale, WA* 98620 | Worker was on DNR property scouting for well sites for a municipal water system. Worker was riding an ATV, and it appears that the vehicle slipped on the steep terrain throwing the worker off and then landing on top of him. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/05/09 | Bank of America, Atascadero, CA* 93422 | Worker complained about not feeling well. The worker went home and collapsed about 3 hours later and died before taken to hospital. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/05/09 | Kane Kauffman, Lebanon, OH 45036 | Workers (2) were in a horse barn fire. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/06/09 | Exel Inc., Lancaster, PA 17061 | Worker was operating a picker and was pinned between the horizontal rack bar and the controls of the picker. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/07/09 | Cahaba Disaster Recovery, LLC, Coldwater, MS 38618 | Workers (2) were engaged in debris removal. They were in the cab of a Caterpillar D-4 dozer and drove it toward the river. The dozer fell into the river, and the two workers drowned. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/07/09 | First Choice Supply Inc., Brooklyn, NY 11219 | Worker was crushed by falling granite countertops. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/07/09 | ISS Facility Services, Sacramento, CA* 95827 | Worker was found having chest pains and was taken to the hospital. Worker died at the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/07/09 | R.C. Torre Construction Corporation Inc., Greenwich, CT 06830 | Worker was installing copper flashing on a roof and was found unresponsive on the ground between the bases of two ladders. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/08/09 | Community Asphalt Corp., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33324 | Worker was backed over on highway construction site. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/08/09 | Mountain Comprehensive Health, Whitesburg, KY* 41858 | Worker was fatally shot at a Perry County Clinic. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/09/09 | Apria Healthcare, Inc., Daytona Beach, FL 32114 | Worker was delivering medical products and was run over by his own truck. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/09/09 | International Paper, Modesto, CA* 95956 | Worker walked into cafeteria when he had a heart attack. CPR was initiated. Worker was taken to the hospital where he was declared dead. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/09/09 | J Nobile Sinns Plumbing Co. Inc., Bakersfield, CA* 93313 | Possible heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/09/09 | Southern Custom Exhibits, Hardeeville, SC 29927 | Worker was in the attic of a center under construction and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/10/09 | International Chimney Corporation, Dunkirk, NY 14231 | Worker was pinned between the bed of a dump truck and the cab/chassis. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/11/09 | BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc., New Castle, DE 19720 | Worker was walking from the parking lot to the entrance and was run over by a delivery truck. |
FY 2010 | 12/11/09 | 12/11/09 | Land O'Lakes, Inc., Wooster, OH 44691 | Worker was shoveling corn into a bucket of a bobcat and was found unresponsive. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 11/25/09 | Arlington County Department of Environmental Services, Arlington, VA | Worker was electrocuted after contracting an overhead high-voltage line with a portable light tower while working at a water main repair site. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/08/09 | 7-UP Re Bottling Company, Redlands, CA 92373 | Worker was found on floor unconscious, no witness. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/08/09 | Manning Masonry Inc., Williamston, NC 27892 | Worker was laying paper and plastic on finished floor and stepped into a hole, falling onto the concrete floor below. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/09/09 | Northumberland Town Highway Dept., Gansvoort, NY 12831 | Worker was performing highway snow plowing duties and was involved in a collision with a train at the crossing. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/09/09 | Robert Lee Williams, Batesville, MS 38606 | Worker was installing decorative lights on a 10-12 foot tree, touched an overhead electrical line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/10/09 | Bernard R. Huff Inc., Chesterfield, VA | Worker was struck by a backhoe during land clearing operations. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/10/09 | Sand Hill Construction, LLC, Hudson Falls, NY 12839 | Worker fell from a pump jack scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/12/09 | Fidalgo Construction LLC, Anacortes, WA 98221 | The worker was lowering a residence to meet with the shortened foundation wall. The worker was trapped and crushed between a support beam and a small section of beam stock when the structure collapsed unexpectedly. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/12/09 | Tom's Creative Landscaping, Inc., Sugar Grove, IL 60554 | Worker was cleaning a dump truck. Worker stuck his arm into salting auger and was sucked in. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/13/09 | RES Investments, Williston, ND 58801 | Worker was thawing two 3-inch valves with a propane torch on a tank trailer that exploded. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/14/09 | Demand Communications, Inc., Montour Falls, NY 14865 | Communication tower collapsed, killing worker. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/14/09 | J & J Farms, Memphis, TX 79245 | Worker was found in the receiving basket of a cotton stripper. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/14/09 | VN Printing, Houston, TX 77002 | Worker was struck by a 1,500-lb load. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/15/09 | Gallagher's Landscaping, Chagrin Falls, OH 44023 | Worker was trimming a lower branch on a tree. An upper branch worked loose and fell on him, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/16/09 | Casto Resources, Sissonville, WV | Worker was performing timber felling operations and was struck by a tree. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/16/09 | Mission Open Air Market, San Antonio, TX 78221 | Worker was walking to the flea market's concession and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/18/09 | Cyr Construction Company, Presque Isle, ME 04769 | Worker was walking and working on the second level floor. Worker was moving equipment and fell 11 feet and was struck by an electrical panel that he was moving. |
FY 2010 | 12/18/09 | 12/19/09 | Coating Management Services, LLC, Denver, CO 80249 | Worker fell into a 4-ft by 8-ft hole leading to a 20-ft depth reservoir and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/17/09 | Manion & Associates, Inc., Brandenburg, KY 40108 | Two workers were doing road surveying each on either side of the road. A civilian driver came over the hill and suddenly applied his brakes, even though no person, equipment, or car was in the road. This caused his car to spin off the road, running over one of the workers. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/17/09 | TBM, Inc., Visalia, CA 93277 | Worker fell from a ladder while working inside an airplane. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/18/09 | Pro-Tech Contracting of Georgia LLC, Lawrenceville, GA | Worker was securing tarp on a roof (not wearing fall protection, although it was available) and fell 35 feet to lower level. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/18/09 | Sonoma Compost Company, LLC, Petaluma, CA 94952 | Worker was on ground when he was run over by a front loader. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/19/09 | Auto Zone Store, Oakland, CA 94603 | Security guard worker was shot three times during robbery. The assailants took his weapon. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/20/09 | Gateco, Newbery Park, CA 91360 | Worker, who is the owner, was doing electrical work and fell through the skylight. (No inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/20/09 | Premier Asphalt and Masonry, Inc., Coram, NY 11727 | Worker was found in vehicle with engine running; carbon monoxide over exposure. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/21/09 | Country Club Auto Repair, Inc., Lake Charles, LA 70305 | Worker was repairing a roof insulation and fell 14 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/21/09 | County of Los Angeles - Office of Education, Downey, CA 90242 | Worker was found unconscious in her cubicle by a janitor. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/21/09 | Estes Express Lines, Seekonk, MA 02771 | Worker was crushed between the forklift he was operating and a concrete bollard next to the loading dock door after stepped off the forklift. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/21/09 | Kenvelm, Inc. dba KE Beal Company, Cape Coral, FL 33919 | Worker was part of a four man tree trimming crew and was in the process of cutting down a 25-foot palm tree. Worker walked into the path of the falling tree and was struck by the tree. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/22/09 | 3 ML Construction Company, Inc., Methuen, MA | Worker was installing shingles and moving planks on a roof and fell 20' 6" from the roof to a driveway below. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/22/09 | ANF Engineering, Inc., Redwood City, CA 94061 | Worker was cleaning up on side of the road and was run over by a dump truck backing up. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/22/09 | South Dakota Wheat Growers Association, McLaughlin, SD 57642 | Worker entered a storage bin through a track side access hole that was 15 feet above ground and was engulfed by sunflower seeds. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/23/09 | Golden Empire Concrete Products, Inc., Bakersfield, CA 93311 | Worker, a Quality Control Manager, was found lying face down. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/23/09 | I.G. Express Electric, New Braunfels, TX 78130 | Worker was being elevated from a trash box on a forklift to reach a light pole. The trash box and worker fell to the parking lot. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/23/09 | Storage Battery Systems, Inc., Alsip, IL 60803 | Worker was working beneath an elevated hydraulic platform and the platform failed, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/23/09 | Walls Contractors, Inc., Newport, AR 72112 | Worker was preparing drywall to be painted and found a coil of wire hanging from the ceiling. He attempted to throw the coil over a beam in the ceiling. The coil of wires struck the beam and fell back down. The wires contacted the worker and he was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/25/09 | Stark Excavation, Inc., Normal, IL 61790 | Worker was operating a track hoe to remove columns lodged against a building. The columns were rigged with a nylon strap and were attached to the track hoe. While hoisting the façade from the building, the strap broke and the concrete façcade fell on the cab of the track hoe, fatally injuring the worker. |
FY 2010 | 12/25/09 | 12/26/09 | Tomcat Drilling, LLC, Ames, OK 73718 | Worker on a derrick board fell with the collapsing mast. The derrick board broke loose from the mast and the worker was thrown against a metal structure on the ground. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 10/31/09 | The Pallet Factory Shady Dale, GA 31085 | Worker was contracted to remove and install a new breaker that controlled a chipper. The disconnect was placed in the off position and the worker began disconnecting the I/O cable from the lugs inside the box, when an arc flash occurred. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/22/09 | City of Corona, Public Works Department Corona, CA 92882 | Worker, an Inspector, was walking in a crosswalk when he was hit by a city vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/24/09 | Trinidad Bustillos San Diego, CA 92154 | Worker was loading lumber onto a flatbed truck. Worker climbed the load to put spacers under forklift load. As he climbed, the lumber collapsed onto him, crushing him. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/26/09 | Ford Motor Company, Kentucky Truck Plant Louisville, KY 40241 | Worker, a maintenance employee, was removing steel beam for the installation of new assembly equipment. After one end of the beam was cut by a welder, the beam apparently slid off the forklift it was raised on and struck worker. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/28/09 | Ajm Framers Inc. Broomfield, CO 80020 | Worker was removing icicles from the roof line of a building. Worker was located in a box attached to a forklift, the box shifted, and the worker fell 30-feet to the concrete below. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/28/09 | Douglas County Inc. Roseburg, OR 97471 | Worker was caught in the unscrambler. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/28/09 | Selbach Construction Amargosa Valley, NV 89020 | Worker was in a basket of an all-terrain forklift at 40 feet, when it tipped over. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/28/09 | SMM Business Corp. dba Tedes Chi Food Shop Jamaica Plein, MA 02130 | Worker was shot by an armed robber. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/29/09 | Burlington Northern Santa FE Railroad Fridley, MN 55421 | Worker was killed when a rail car jumped its tracks and pinned him against a building. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/29/09 | U.S. Postal Service Bethlehem, CT 06751 | Worker was driving a postal service truck on a town road and a tree fell, striking the truck. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/29/09 | USF Holland, Inc. Rock Island, IL 61201-7314 | Worker was at a trucking dock, unloading one truck and loading another. While parked at the dock, his truck caught fire; worker died in the fire. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/30/09 | America Granite & Marble Concepts Solon, OH 44139 | Worker was unloading granite slabs from a truck, the weight shifted. The worker was crushed by a slab. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/30/09 | Dixie Crane Service, Inc. dba Dixie Erectors Mableton, GA 30126 | Worker was working on an I-beam 20-feet above ground when another I-beam above came loose and fell, crushing him between the two I-beams. |
FY 2010 | 01/01/10 | 12/31/09 | Scott Company Marysville, OH 43040 | Worker in the process area was found under a freight elevator. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 11/07/09 | Grady Lee Nicholson Winston-Salem, NC 27051 | The worker was digging post holes with a tractor auger and his arm and clothing were caught in the drive shaft. The shaft mangled his arm and his clothing wrapped around his neck, strangling him. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 11/10/09 | Strata Networks Roosevelt, UT 84066 | Worker was installing a box in a residential yard when he was struck by a vehicle that was operated by a drunk driver. (Inspection Planned) |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 11/25/09 | Consolidated Waste Industries, Inc. Clinton, MD 20735 | Worker was backed over by a garbage truck. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/09/09 | Anderson & Shah Roofing, Inc. of Florida Clearwater, FL 33761 | Worker was climbing a ladder and fell backwards 6 to 7-feet to the ground, striking his head on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/18/09 | Gabe's Services, Inc. Rockville, MD 02850 | Worker was run over by a roll-off trash truck. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/21/09 | Building For You Brentwood, TN 37027 | Worker was working on the roof when he fell. He was taken to the hospital, where he passed away on 12/24/2009. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/22/09 | Schott Gemtron Corporation Sweetwater, TN 37847 | Worker was working with glass product when glass struck worker in the neck. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/23/09 | Sugar Hill Farm Fairfield, VT 05455 | Machine guarding was removed from the Houle Alley Scraper for maintenance and not reinstalled after servicing. Worker was caught in moving machinery and suffered fatal injuries. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/24/09 | Neill Grading and Construction Company, Inc. Hickory, NC 28603 | Worker was in a trench installing 8-inch pipes for a new sewer line. As another worker operated the excavator, he noticed the worker covered waist deep in dirt. After 20 minutes the worker was removed from the trench and transported to the hospital where he died. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/27/09 | Moran Towing Corp. Secaucas, NJ 07094 | Worker was crushed by a cable after being pulled into a motorized capstan. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/28/09 | Gladhill Tractor Frederick, MD 21703 | Worker was crushed by the boom of a skid loader while performing maintenance. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/30/09 | Fab Steel Inc. Lexington, KY 40511 | Worker's death believed related to long-time exposure to chemicals used in painting operations. Worker used paint, mineral spirits, and xylene. Worker passed away at his residence. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/31/09 | Golden Star Market Pittsburg, CA 94565 | The worker was handing a gun to a co-worker when the gun accidentally fired and shot the worker in the face. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 12/31/09 | Thundercloud Ranch LLC Scottsdale, AZ 85262 | A 78-yr old ranch worker died while supervising the operation of a powered auger. The event is described as an amputation. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/01/10 | Forrest Drilling Company, LLC Bethany, OK 73008 | Worker was resting in a recliner in his trailer when he was struck by a drilling pipe stand that fell from a derrick. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/02/10 | Telgent EMS L.L.C. Havana, FL 32333 | Worker was cutting a 55-gallon steel drum with an acetylene torch to make it a burn barrel. The barrel was not vented, and the isopropyl alcohol at the bottom of the barrel exploded from the top, dousing the worker, and engulfing him in flames. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/04/10 | Akal, Security, Lloyd D. George Federal Courthouse Las Vegas, NV 89101 | A gunman entered the front doors of the courthouse and shot the worker, a Court Security Officer, knocking him to the ground and killing him. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/04/10 | Cowen Truck Line, Inc. Perry, FL 32348 | Worker was struck and crushed by a truck trailer that was backing up. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/04/10 | Golden West Marble, Inc. Valencia, CA 91355 | The worker, president/owner of the company, was pinned by 5 sheets of granite which crushed his chest. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/04/10 | Grove US, LLC Shady Grove, PA 17256 | Worker was squatting down on the deck of a crane to install the bolts on an oil cooler and fell 6-feet to the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/04/10 | Sterling Transportation East Liverpool, OH 44432 | Worker, during the loading/unloading process of calcium fluoride, was found unresponsive on top of the tanker. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/05/10 | Bully Bros LLC Vidor, TX 77662 | Worker was lowering the dump bed of a dump trailer, which was stuck in the raised position. Worker entered beneath the upraised bed to rock the ram into position to lower the bed. The ram dislodged, causing the bed to fall. The bed struck and crushed the upper body of the worker. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/05/10 | Loveland Electric, Inc. Jupiter, FL 33458 | Worker working from a ladder, cutting a pipe, lost his balance and fell to the ground below hitting his head against the side wall. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/06/10 | Chesapeake Energy Barksdale AFB, LA 71110 | Worker was working on the dump valve flange and 3" line that led to a welded "T" of a high pressure separator when a fire/explosion occurred. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/06/10 | DJ Drilling and Blasting Inc. Lavergne, TN 27086 | Worker was moving a drill and contacted an overhead powerline. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/06/10 | Edaleen Dairy LLC Lynden, WA 98264 | Worker was preparing for herd health and was shutting the east overhead door when the door came down suddenly pinning the worker between the top of the gate and the bottom of the door. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/06/10 | Sierra Tire and Auto, dba Llantera Del Norte Tire Shop Las Vegas, NV 89115 | The worker was shot at least once in the chest/abdomen area during a robbery or attempted robbery. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/07/10 | ABB Inc St. Louis, MO 63120 | Worker armed himself with multiple weapons, fatally shooting three workers and self; wounding five other workers. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/07/10 | Charleston Pine Apartments Las Vegas, NV 89104 | Worker, a maintenance worker, was attempting to move a refrigerator down some stairs when he lost his footing and fell backwards, striking his head on the concrete stairs before falling down. The refrigerator fell onto the lower portion of the deceased. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/07/10 | Typex Masonry Developers Philadelphia, PA 19128 | Worker fell from a two-story residence. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/07/10 | Yakima Forest Products White Swan, WA 98952 | Worker had part of an end loader fall on him. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/08/10 | Atlantic Directional Drilling Lake Mary, FL 32746 | Worker was doing a retrofit when the excavated area began to fill with water. Worker was trying to locate the water service that was hit and was electrocuted on 2 large electrical conduits that had not been previously located. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/09/10 | Enbridge G & P (East Texas) LP Douglasville, TX 75560 | Worker was replacing a valve on a waste heat boiler when hydrogen sulfide was released to the atmosphere. |
FY 2010 | 01/08/10 | 01/09/10 | US Staffing Carol Stream, IL 60188 | Worker operating an overhead crane with a pendant was moving sheets of steel. He positioned himself between the load and a metal barrier guard that ran along the aisle or stacks of sheet steel on the opposite side of the aisle. The load struck the other stacks of steel or a metal barrier guard, causing the load to spin, catching the worker between the load and either the stacks of steel or the metal barrier guard. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 10/23/09 | Sheridan Excavating, Inc. Sheridan, AR 72150 | Worker was unloading pipes and was struck by two pipes that fell from the load. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 11/29/09 | Pizza by Vito's Indiana 46806 | Worker, a pizza delivery man, was shot fatally during a robbery. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 12/29/09 | Peterson Grain Decatur, IN 46733 | Worker fell 80 feet in grain silo. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 12/31/09 | Hyatt Penns Landing Philadelphia, PA 19106 | Worker was in the basement's mechanical rooms and suffered a heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/05/10 | Flour Maintenance Service, Inc. Quinton, AL 35130 | Worker was using a toga crane hoist. Worker inhaled a chemical (ammonia) that was leaking by the cooling tower. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/06/10 | Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Teton Village, WY 83025 | Worker was working on avalanche control and was buried in 6 feet of snow while setting charges to release the build up of snow to avoid an unplanned avalanche. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/07/10 | Beta Steel Portage, IN 46388 | Worker climbed the roof of the furnace to shut off all water when an explosion happened. The worker fell 12 feet to the floor from the furnace roof. Four (4) other workers were injured. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/07/10 | CA Justice Eureka, CA 95501 | Worker was performing clerical duties at the front office when she started feeling sick and vomited at her desk. She went to the restroom, she was incoherent and became unconscious. (Inspection Planned) |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/11/10 | Davey Tree Experts Company Tallassee, AL 36078 | Worker was chipping brush and was struck by an automobile. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/11/10 | General Electric Transportation System Erie, PA 16531 | Worker was crushed by a locomotive alternator frame that fell off an oven table. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/11/10 | HIP Inc. Milwaukee, WI 53202 | Worker was working on a roof/deck and fell into an elevator shaft, 30-feet. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/11/10 | Scaffolding Rental and Erection Services, LLC McPherson, KS 67460 | Worker was erecting a scaffold and fell 30-feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/11/10 | Sheridan Production, LLC Big Spring, TX 79720 | Workers were replacing a vent line on top of a tank battery. They were exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas. One worker fatality and three workers were hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/13/10 | AT&T Rome, GA 30161 | Worker was pulling telephone cable and tightening it up with a winch. He became entangled in the cable. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/13/10 | Guaranteed Finishing Unlimited, Inc. Cleveland, OH 44111 | Worker was taking a dip tank sample by hand with a 8-ounce plastic bottle. The automatic hoisting mechanism struck, caught and crushed him between the frame of the hoist mechanism and the dip tank transfer bar. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/13/10 | Island Operating Co. Cameron, LA 70631 | Workers were on the production platform sleeping when a fire/explosion occurred. They evacuated the platform and were in the water for 1.5-2 hours before being rescued. One worker fatality and two workers were hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/15/10 | Metal-Bilt Ocala, FL 34474 | Worker was erecting a steel structure and was struck by a steel I beam. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/15/10 | Sturgeion Electric Company, Inc. Broomfield, CO 80020 | Worker fell off bucket 30-feet striking utility lines during his descent. |
FY 2010 | 01/15/10 | 01/16/10 | Crete Carrier Inc. Houston, TX 77029 | Worker was crushed between his trailer and another trailer that was backing up. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 10/30/09 | Amityville UFSD Park Ave Elementary School, Amityville, NY 11701 | Worker, a teacher, fell down one flight of stairs from the stairwell landing while escorting students from classroom to lunchroom. Possible heart attack prior to fall. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/11/10 | Criminal Task Investigation Inc, Caguas, PR 00726 | The gate of the entrance came loose and fell over the worker, a security guard, that was opening it. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/12/10 | Coleman American Moving Services Inc, Jackson, TN 38305 | Worker was unloading household goods at a residential site when the loading ramp to the truck allegedly slipped causing the victim to fall and strike the side of the ramp resulting in internal injuries. The worker was admitted to the hospital where he underwent surgery for a lacerated spleen, kidney damage and punctured lung the following day. Prior to discharge from the hospital the worker sustained a massive heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/13/10 | Talls Tree Timber Company, Bedford, IN 47421 | Worker, a logger, died several hours after removal from frigid water. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/14/10 | Thiesing Veneer Company, Mooresville, IN 46158 | Worker, a crane operator, suffered 3rd degree burns on his legs and back on 1/6/2010 and expired on 1/15/2010. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/16/10 | Citrus Memorial Health System, Inverness, FL 34452 | Worker tripped and fell during a visit to a patient's home. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/16/10 | Nick Ries Farms, Hastings, MN 55033 | Worker was working with a compost machine. His jacket was caught in the machine pulling him in the machine causing asphyxiation and death. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/16/10 | Speedy Petroleum (Shell), Indianapolis, IN 46222 | Worker, a store attendant, was working at convenience store/gasoline station and was shot fatally during robbery. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/16/10 | State of Oregon Department of Transportation | Worker was found deceased in a creek bed. Initial investigation suggests the victim fell 36 feet off a bridge. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/18/10 | Bao Bui dba Bau Auto Repair, Knoxville, TN 37912 | The worker was cleaning the frame of a utility trailer in preparation for painting. The utility trailer was clamped/attached to the forks of a locally manufactured hydraulic lift. The worker raised the lift to its maximum height and while standing under the trailer, continued to hold the hydraulic pump lever in the up position. The hydraulic pressure was too great, a chain link broke, the lift and the 800-pound trailer collapsed on top of the victim. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/18/10 | Hampton Golf, Inc., Palm Coast, FL 32164 | Worker was crushed by a beverage cart that slid off a lift onto him. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/19/10 | Heinz North America, Chatsworth, CA | Worker was crushed by a lift truck. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/19/10 | Marathon Petroleum Company, Kenova, WV 25530 | Worker fell from the deck of a tug boat transporting coal barges on the river. Worker was swept underneath the vessel by the river current and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/19/10 | Stuart's Landscaping, Fond du Lac, WI 54937 | Worker was operating a dump truck hauling rock that was being dumped into the lake. The dump truck fell through the ice near the dumping site killing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/20/10 | Arena Drilling Co., Andrews, TX 79714 | Worker was caught in a block line. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/21/10 | Color Spot Nurseries, New Summerfield, TX 75780 | Worker had entered a soil hopper system while the auger was rotating. Worker's clothes were caught in the rotating auger, pulling the worker's body into the auger. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/21/10 | Davis Excavation, Inc., McKinney, TX 75069 | Worker was in the process of installing the connector pins to secure two trench boxes. A cave-in occurred, knocking the upper trench box off the lower trench box and pinning the worker between the spreader bars of two trench boxes. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/21/10 | Schneider Electric, El Paso, TX 79912 | Worker was testing an electrical panel at 480 Volts and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/22/10 | Lyondell Basell, Houston, TX 77017 | Worker fell from a tower at a non-operational unit at a refinery complex. |
FY 2010 | 01/22/10 | 01/23/10 | Bradley Plumbing and Heating, Inc., Tuskegee, AL 36088 | Worker was working on a mezzanine to move an air handling unit using a pry bar. Worker lost his footing and fell from an unprotected edge to the floor 20 feet below. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 11/12/09 | Clear Creek CBM LLC, Coshen, UT 84633 | Individual removed a strap to unload pipe from a semi-trailer and one of the pipes fell onto the individual which resulted in his death. After extensive review it has been determined there was no employer/employee relationship. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/08/10 | Mechanical Solutions LLC dba Simpson Company, Boulder, CO 80304 | Worker fell through a guardrail 8 to 10 feet from mezzanine to lower level. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/21/10 | Sergio Leon dba Sergio & Ruben, Hot Springs Village, AR 71909 | Worker was installing 2 by 6 ceiling joists on a home. One of the joists broke; the worker lost his balance and fell 10 feet to the concrete floor inside. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/22/10 | American Grading and Land Clearing, Peachtree City, GA | Two workers were performing tree removal. The tree fell on the two workers. One worker fatality and one worker hospitalization. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/22/10 | Shannon Platt Construction, Centerville, SD 57014 | Worker was removing the cone-shaped roof of a grain bin. Worker was working from a basket that was attached lengthwise off of the end of the forks 12 feet and was elevated 35 feet in the air. The forklift tipped over and struck the ground. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/23/10 | Cooper-Vennette Property Services, Inc., Tampa, FL 33634 | Worker was spray painting a building and was found pinned/crushed between the aerial bucket and an awning structure. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/23/10 | Ethyl Corporation, Pasadena, TX 77503 | Worker was collecting a water sample and was found with the upper half of his body in a diked containment area containing 11 inches of rain water. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/25/10 | H.D. Supply, La Habra, CA | Worker was standing beside his truck preparing to strap down a load of steel sprinkler pipe bundles, when a forklift operator loading bundles on the left side of the truck bed inadvertently knocked a bundle off the truck bed. The bundle struck the driver knocking him to the ground. He was transported to the hospital where he died later from internal injuries. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/26/10 | Cassens Transport Company, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878 | Worker was struck by passing vehicle while he was delivering cars. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/26/10 | Lehigh Southwest Cement Co., Tehachapi, CA 93561 | Worker was run over by tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/26/10 | Roy Builders Inc., Lansing, NY 14882 | Worker fell from roof elevation. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/26/10 | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Rockville, MD 20805 | Two maintenance workers were killed when struck by a rail maintenance vehicle while establishing a work zone. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/27/10 | Alko Systems, Inc., Marco Island, FL 34145 | Worker was installing security cameras and fell from a flat roof 16 feet. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/28/10 | Max Convenience Stores, LLC, Louisville, KY 40223 | Worker was working at 2:47 a.m. in a convenience store, when he was shot during a robbery attempt. He was taken off life support on 1/27/2010. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/28/10 | Thermal Polymer Systems, LC, Angleton, TX 77515 | Workers were coating the interior of a trailer tank; fumes ignited from the trailer tank, causing a flash fire. One worker fatality and two workers were hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 01/29/10 | 01/30/10 | Cargill Meat Solutions, Nebraska City, NE 68410 | Worker was disassembling storage racks from inside a scissor lift elevated 20 feet and attaching a strap to the rack and slowly leaning it over. The strap caught the lift and tipped over with the rack. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 11/14/09 | Manuel Orozco, Bethesda, MD 20817 | Worker was standing on a ladder with a chain saw to cut a tree trunk. The chain saw apparently struck the victim 's neck. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 11/18/09 | Welty Homes, Inc., Bethesda, MD 20817 | Worker either fell from ladder or roof. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 12/05/09 | SUNY Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902 | A professor was assaulted while providing mentoring services in an assigned office space. Event occurred during normal office hours. Multiple stab injuries to abdomen and torso. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/07/10 | NYCHA Edenwald Houses, Bronx, NY 10466 | Worker of New York City Housing Authority was found dead at his work station in the boiler room. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/18/10 | Cinderella Properties, Auburn, WA 98002 | Skull fracture. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/19/10 | Oak Express, Syracuse, NY 13224 | Worker was unloading a trailer, and a box fell on him. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/20/10 | NYS Police Troop C, Morris, NY | Trooper collided with a westbound tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/26/10 | NYC Department of Sanitation - Queens West 1, Astoria, NY 11106 | Worker was killed after being pinned between a tractor trailer and his garbage truck. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/29/10 | Capital Trading LLC, West Jordan, UT 84088 | Worker was crushed between a delivery truck and the loading dock resulting in serious injuries and his death. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/29/10 | Integrity Machining Inc., Seattle, WA 98117 | Worker was struck by a steel shaft being worked on in a lathe. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/29/10 | Kitchell Contractors, Inc, Phoenix, AZ 85106 | Worker was run over by a forklift on a construction site and fatally injured. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/29/10 | Parkdale Mills, Belmont, NC 28502 | Worker was in the process of unloading a truck when the forklift he was operating overturned. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/30/10 | Octopus Car Wash, Albuquerque, NM 87113 | A car being driven off of the exit-end of the car wash conveyor to the drying area outside of the building accelerated suddenly, striking the worker standing near the auto door to the outside. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 01/30/10 | Sturdivant Woodyards, Inc., Sandersville, MS 39477 | Worker was found at the log loading site beneath the front right tire of a skidder. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/02/10 | Manheim's San Francisco Bay Auto Auction, Hayward, CA 94544 | Worker was found lying dead on roadway adjacent to work. Apparent homicide. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/02/10 | Martinez Tire Shop, Houston, TX 77013 | Worker was inflating a tire that exploded, striking him |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/02/10 | Stone Crafter, Wintor Park, FL 32792 | Worker was assisting in the delivery of granite slabs using a forklift. The forklift hit two slabs that fell, striking the worker on the head. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/03/10 | Apac Southeast, Inc., Winter Haven, FL 33884 | Worker was in the process of putting equipment on a machine and was found on the ground by other workers; apparent heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/03/10 | P.A.M. Transport, Inc., North Jackson, OH 44451 | Worker was found unresponsive after pulling a tractor trailer into the shop building. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/03/10 | Palatka Welding Shop Inc., Palm Coast, FL 32164 | Worker was installing metal roofing and fell 35 feet, hitting the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/04/10 | Long Foundation Drilling Co., Cullman, AL 35057 | Worker was lowered into a 30- to 35-foot deep shaft to perform hand cleaning and to drill a sample test of a rock. He was being lifted out of the shaft by the use of a pneumatic winch system. The winch system collapsed into the shaft, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/04/10 | Schneider National Carriers, Green Bay, WI 54313 | Worker was adjusting the wheel location of a trailer and was run over by the trailer of the truck. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/05/10 | Breeze National Inc., New York, NY 10027 | Worker fell from scaffold into a window opening and 20 feet down an elevator shaft. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/06/10 | Green Circle Bio Energy, Inc., Cottondale, FL 32431 | Worker received severe steam burns to his lungs during the clinker material clearing process. |
FY 2010 | 02/05/10 | 02/13/10 | Dynamic Wireless, Haskell, AR 72012 | Worker was disassembling a communication tower and fell 98 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 01/14/10 | Mercy Medical Center, Mason City, IA 50401 | Worker noticed the sodium hydroxide pipe was leaking. He tried to stop the leak and got sodium hydroxide on himself. After cleaning the spill, the worker took a shower and collapsed and died. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 01/21/10 | Delta Air Lines Inc., Seattle, WA 91858 | Worker was operating a tug vehicle that transfers luggage from terminals to airplanes. The tug collided with a food service truck. The worker was ejected from the tug and struck his head on the pavement. He was transferred to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 01/27/10 | Borinquen Metal Scrap Corp., Gurabo, PR 00778 | While working on a metal roof, the aluminum metal sheet, which was deteriorated, broke. The worker fell to the ground, later dying at the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/03/10 | Odele Incorporated, Morgantown, KY 47307 | Workers were painting a newly constructed sludge pit. Worker turned to find other worker slumped down by the wall. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/07/10 | Coverflex, Middletown, CT 06457 | Workers were doing a "blow down" to clear gas from the lines and an explosion occurred. One worker fatality. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/07/10 | Instrument Sciences and Technology, Middletown, CT 06457 | Workers were doing a "blow down" to clear gas from the lines and an explosion occurred. One worker fatality. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/07/10 | Julies Café LLC, Green Bay, WI 54301 | Worker slipped at work, fracturing ankle. Worker died of blood clots two days later. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/07/10 | Keystone Construction & Maintenance, Middletown, CT 06457 | Workers were doing a "blow down" to clear gas from the lines and an explosion occurred. There were three fatalities. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/08/10 | Alpine Courier Inc, Hillsboro, OR 97124 | Worker was caught between the back of a semi-trailer and a loading dock. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/08/10 | AT&T, Orlando, FL 32826 | Worker was shot by an unknown assailant in the parking lot and was hospitalized; shooter then committed suicide. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/08/10 | East Alabama Paving Company, Inc., Opelika, AL 36804 | Worker was struck by a dump truck. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/08/10 | Matuia & Matuia Construction, Inc., Lake Jackson, TX 77566 | Worker entered a manhole in an abandoned sewer line to remove a cap from a vent line and fell 7to 10 feet from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/08/10 | Texas Disposal, Austin, TX 78610 | Workers were working under the chassis of a water pump that was up on four jack stands. One of the jacks was removed and the water pump came down, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/09/10 | Quality Surface Processing, Schofield, WI 54476 | Worker was dipping a metal part into a heated bath and an explosion occurred, burning worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/10/10 | JD Enterprises Inc., Laramie, WY, 82070 | Excavator broke through ice coming to rest on its side and entrapping worker underwater. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/10/10 | Time Warner Cable, Wichita Falls, TX 76306 | Worker fell out of bucket truck after his truck was struck by another vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/10/10 | Unknown, El Segundo, CA 90245 | Worker suffered heart attack and died while sweeping water from the roof of an apartment building. (Inspection planned) |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/10/10 | Volunteers of America of Ohio, Cleveland, OH 44110 | Worker was assaulted by a homeless veteran. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/11/10 | D&S Tree Service, Inc., Marion IL 62959 | Worker was using a wood chipper to process branches from a tree trimming job. The chipper discharge chute clogged up and the worker removed the pin that held the access panel down over the cutterwheel. The cutterwheel was still rotating and discharged wood material against the access panel, which flipped open and the worker was hit in the face and forehead with the handle of the access panel. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/12/10 | Batzli Excavating Company Inc., East Rochester, OH 44625 | Worker was emptying rock salt out of the back of his dump truck with a spreader. His arm was caught in the rotating auger distribution system. |
FY 2010 | 02/12/10 | 02/12/10 | Uptowner Inns Inc. dba Holiday Inn Hotel and Suite, Huntington, WV 25701 | Worker was exposed to a chemical stripping agent and suffered respiratory pain / illness due to poor ventilation. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/09/10 | KAL Services, Inc. dba Midwest Sanitation, Oskaloosa, IA 52577 | Worker was trying to grab a large piece of cardboard out of the back of the garbage truck when the driver began to close the tailgate. The driver heard the worker and opened it. The worker who had been caught by the tailgate was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/15/10 | Carr & Sons, Masonry, Inc., Clearwater, FL 33767 | Worker was working on a column and fell over safety rail from the second level. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/15/10 | Suburban Tire Company, St. Charles, IL 60174 | Worker was crushed between the ground and the arm of an automotive lift. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/16/10 | Galland Henning Nopak, Inc., West Milwaukee, WI 53215 | Worker was working in the yard moving a piece of steel with an overhead crane. The piece fell, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/16/10 | J & M Construction, McLoud, OK 74851 | Worker was attempting to tie into a main water line that was 17 to 20 feet underground when the trench collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/16/10 | Southland Steel Fabricators, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 | Worker was working from a manlift connecting a beam. The beam being held by a crane, shifted and hit the manlift knocking the worker from the manlift, 14 to16 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/17/10 | Duncan Oil Co., South Charleston, OH 45368 | Worker was refilling aboveground fuel oil tanks from a tank truck. He had walked behind the truck and bent over, his coat was caught in the power take-off. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/17/10 | Eaton Corporation, Belmond, IA 50421 | Worker, a machine operator, was using a grinding machine and the grinding wheel on the machine broke into pieces. One piece of the wheel struck the worker in the face. The worker died instantly. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/17/10 | Elco Oil LLC, Beggs, OK 74421 | Worker was draining a tank; one of the employees climbed to the top of the tank and lit a cigarette and waved it over the opening in the tank. The tank exploded, killing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/17/10 | Jeff Schoenfelder Farms, Rochester, Minnesota 55904 | Worker found unconscious in a hog barn. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/17/10 | The Clarion Hotel & Conference Center, Shepherdstown, WV 25443 | Worker was working in the kitchen area and fainted / fell to the floor, grabbing hold of a deep fryer, spilling hot grease out onto her and burning 30 percent of her body. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/18/10 | Total I.T. Solutions, Pearl, MS 39208 | Worker was removing an antenna from a hangar roof. He was walking a beam and stepped off and fell through the roof of the hangar. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/19/10 | Nationwide Scrap, LLC, Brooklyn, NY 11385 | Worker was struck by a powered industrial truck that was loading paper bales into a semi-trailer. |
FY 2010 | 02/19/10 | 02/20/10 | Mountain State Carbon, LLC, Follansbee, WV 26037 | Worker was traveling underneath a coal transfer belt. A large icicle broke away from the belt structure and fell onto the worker. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/04/10 | Hansell Mitzel Homes LLC, Mt. Vernon, WA 98273 | Worker was crushed by the bulldozer he was operating. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/14/10 | Severstal Sparrows Point, LLC, Sparrows Point, MD 21219 | Worker was descending from the cab/platform built into the side of the vehicle. The worker fell backwards and landed on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/16/10 | Sound Storage Management, Everett, WA 98201 | Worker was bitten by a customer's dog at a gated storage facility while on duty. Worker passed away two days later at the hospital from blood poisoning related to the dog bite. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/18/10 | A to Z Island Maintenance, Inc., Chinquapin, NC 28521 | Six workers were installing bracing to trusses while working on/inside the web of the trusses with two workers on the ground. The trusses collapsed/rolled. Two workers fell from the trusses and were injured. One worker, the ground man, was cutting lumber to length. He was killed when the trusses fell on him. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/18/10 | Gary Pellandini Dairy, Galt, CA 95632 | Worker was moving hay out of a barn from a height of 10 to 12 feet. He fell and received head trauma, from which he died. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/18/10 | Lewis Tree Service, Inc., Troy, NC 27371 | Worker was struck on the head by a tree limb while felling a tree. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/18/10 | Peninsula Packaging Co., LLC, Wilson, NC 27893 | Worker was performing maintenance on an extruder machine. He was discovered caught in the machine by the plant manager. He was pronounced dead at the scene. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/18/10 | State of MD Department of Juvenile Services/Chettenham | Worker was murdered. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/21/10 | Celina Aluminum Precision Technology, Inc., Celina, OH 45822 | Worker was troubleshooting a Makino, multi-axis, computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine; the machine activated and the worker's head was impaled by the tooling spindle. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | Center Point Energy, Baytown, TX 77521 | Worker was climbing a tower at a height of 58 feet and began having convulsions. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | City of Chicago Police Department, Chicago, IL 60653 | Police officer was involved in a vehicle accident with a marked car. Apparently he struck a pole and tree and was pronounced dead at the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | County of Cleveland - Self-McNeilly Solid Waste Management Facility, Shelby, NC 28150 | Worker was working as a landfill spotter. He was behind a CAT 836G compactor and the operator of the compactor did not see him. The operator of the compactor backed over the worker. He was taken to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | George J. Roll & Sons, Inc., Blue Island, IL 60406 | Worker was attempting to find the problem of a hydraulic flatbed truck. He rose up the flatbed and positioned himself beneath the raised flatbed and the frame. The hydraulics gave way and the worker was crushed. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | Ricklefs Excavating LTD, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 | Workers were utilizing excavator with pipe clamp to plastic-wrap 18-foot pipes. Upon completion of wrapping, the pipe excavator operator picked up pipe with the clamp. The pipe came out of the pipe clamp resulting in the pipe falling onto the worker's chest which caused a fatal crushing injury. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/22/10 | Unibridge System Inc., Woodward, OK 73801 | Worker was in the process of unloading pipe from a trailer. He was removing a chain that was routed through the middle of the front weigh bridge, when the pipe rolled off the top of the load, striking the worker in the upper extremities knocking him down on the ground. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/24/10 | B K D Construction Inc., Juana Diaz, PR 00795 | While operating a boom truck attempting to move a junked truck, suddenly the boom broke from its base and stuck the worker causing a serious chest injury. The worker was killed. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/24/10 | Gaudiosi Hauling Inc., Wolcott, CT 06716 | Worker, acting as a spotter, was struck by the garbage truck that was backing up. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/24/10 | Horween Leather Company, Chicago, IL 60614 | Worker was working on a step ladder adjusting a pipe on top of the pasting machine and fell backwards off of the ladder, hitting his head on the metal plate floor. |
FY 2010 | 02/26/10 | 02/24/10 | Sea World, Orlando, FL 32821 | Worker, an animal trainer, was attacked by a killer whale in an aquarium's exhibition tank. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 01/20/10 | Brown's Trash Removal, Perrysville, OH 44864 | Worker had exited the cab of a truck. Worker ran across the street to collect garbage and was hit by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 01/21/10 | Sure Steel Inc, Pahoa, HI 96778 | Worker of a structural steel erection crew that was installing roof decking fell from the deck under construction to the concrete floor below. Worker was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/12/10 | Rainaway Rain Control, Inc., Miami, FL 33126 | Worker was doing a job on a 6-foot ladder, lost his balance and fell, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/15/10 | Wal-Mart Store, Rogerville, TN 37857 | Worker tripped on an extension cord and fell onto a tiled floor in the deli. She was transported to the hospital where she later died. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/16/10 | Municipio de Utuado, Utuado, PR 00641 | Worker caught by the garbage truck compactor. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/23/10 | Township of Murphysboro - Public Works, Murphysboro, IL 62966 | Garage worker was found pinned by a vehicle at 6:45 a.m. The vehicle was still in drive and he had been pinned for a undetermined amount of time. He was taken to the hospital for treatment where he died later. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/26/10 | Aramark Services, Charleston, IL 61920 | Worker was returning from the rest room and collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/26/10 | Birney Elementary School, Tacoma, WA 98408 | Teacher was shot multiple times as she entered the workplace. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/27/10 | Mercados Bakery, Lajas, PR 00667 | Bakery worker, was using a home-made elevator to hoist material from the first level to the second level on a two story building. Upon entering the elevator at the second floor, the chain sling supporting the elevator failed. The elevator in free fall caught the employee in/between the floor edge. He was found dead by a fellow worker. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 02/28/10 | AGJ Four, Inc., Smithtown, NY 11787 | Worker fell in a sewage pit. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/01/10 | Cooper T. Smith Stevedoring Co., Inc., Houston, TX 77014 | Worker had climbed a ladder to watch his gang. A rolling crane was approaching his location and he did not see the second crane coming. The walkway of the crane struck him off the ladder onto the ship's main deck. He was then caught by a piece of pipe and dragged until the crane was stopped. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/02/10 | Coastal Chemical Co. LLC, Beaumont, TX 77705 | Worker was struck by a 500-gallon tank that fell off the tines of a forklift. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/02/10 | Northwest Insulation, Artesia, NM 88211 | Four insulation contractors were installing insulation on top of a new crude storage tank. The tank had been filled with water during recent hydrostatic testing. The workers were completing construction. Workers were welding when a fire ignited. Two fell from the tank, sustaining injuries, and were hospitalized. A third worker remained on top of the tank and was fatally burned. Fourth worker remains missing and is presumed dead. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | Church's Fried Chicken, Kenedy, TX 78119 | Worker pressure washing a freezer via gasoline-powered washer was overcome by carbon monoxide. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | Eastman Drilling Co., Blackwell, OK 74631 | Worker was drilling a water well. The boom of the drilling rig contacted a high voltage power line of a cell phone tower. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | Fikes Truck Lines LLC, Houston, TX 77041 | Worker was in the process of removing synthetic straps from a load of four, 7-inch by 50-foot long, metal utility poles, when one of the poles, stacked on top, fell and landed on top of him. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | M & L Services Co, Junction City, KS 66441 | Worker was flushing a refrigerator line and did not extinguish the pilot light on the water heater. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | Peoples Gas Light and Coke Company, Chicago, IL 60606 | Two workers were conducting a pressure test on a pipe located in a timber-shored trench. The workers were pressurizing the pipe to the desired amount. The pipe burst and the pressure of the air forced the pipe and the timber shoring toward the workers. One worker fatality and one worker hospitalization. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/03/10 | Wireline Control Services, Alice, TX 50518 | Worker was working in a pressure wash bay, cleaning some open-ended pipe, and was found collapsed on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/04/10 | Contract Transportation Systems Inc, Oakridge, OR 97463 | Worker was driving a commercial truck and collided with several large bales of hay that fell off an unknown semi-trailer. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/04/10 | DE Best Plumbing, Inc., Columbus, GA 31901 | Worker was making preparations to stack steel beams in a storage area; an I-beam fell from a mansport truck, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/04/10 | Finger Lakes Service Group, Rochester, NY 14607 | Worker was using a "Better Spreader" to apply glue to the rubber membrane, walking backwards. He backed off the roof and fell 27 feet to the ground below. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/04/10 | Kojis Signs, LLC, Kirbyville, TX 77595 | Worker was installing lamp/bulbs while in an elevated bucket on a truck and contacted a live wire, receiving a lethal shock. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/05/10 | Erickson Contract Surveying, Inc., Beach, ND 58621 | Worker was conducting seismographic drilling operations. Worker was tipping pipe out of the hole; the pipe came loose, and fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/05/10 | M Construction, Alamo, TX 78516 | Worker was working inside a trench without a protective system; the trench walls collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/05/10 | Tyson Refrigerated Processed Meats, Inc., Houston, TX 72762 | Worker was working on the electrical wiring for overhead fluorescent lights in the attic of a plant, and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 03/06/10 | 03/05/10 | U.S. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Community Service, Jacksonville , NC 28540 | Worker had taken a flat bottom boat out for a ride to put 10 hours of usage on the new motor. Worker fell from the moving boat and his body was found later, floating. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/04/10 | Ames Construction, Phoenix, AZ 85382 | Worker was killed when he overturned his side dump truck and struck a parked water truck. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/04/10 | University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 | A material handler was walking in a parking lot when he slipped on some ice causing him to fall, striking his head on parking lot surface. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/05/10 | Big Boyz Truck, Motley, MN 56466 | Worker was working beneath a trailer when the jack stand broke. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/06/10 | Valor Technologies, Inc., Mt. Prospect, IL 60058 | Worker was disposing waste parquet flooring and tile from a gondola plastic cart into a dumpster. Worker collapsed into the dumpster; apparent heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/10/10 | Dave Shaw Concrete & Block Inc., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 | Worker was standing on platform/plywood on forklift and fell into a 15-foot excavation which collapsed around him, burying him. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/10/10 | Etchegaray Farms, McFarland, CA 93250 | Worker was struck by falling windmill blades when he went to start equipment. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/11/10 | AEE Tecnica de Rio Piedras, Santurce, PR 00908 | Worker was hit in the forehead by the hook of a crane that was being used to install a utility pole. He was knocked unconscious and transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 03/13/10 | 03/12/10 | GATX Corporation, Camp Minden, LA 71058 | Worker had climbed down a ladder into a railcar, which had been identified as a confined space, wearing an acid gas respirator with an organic vapor cartridge. As he began to exit the railcar, climbing up the ladder, he collapsed and fell back into the railcar. It is believed there was a nitrogen atmosphere in the railcar. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 02/23/10 | North Star Emergency Services, LLC, Charlotte, NC 28277 | Worker was inspecting a roof on 2/23/2010 when he fell 23 feet. He later died from his injuries on 3/10/2010. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/09/10 | Florida Rock & Tank Lines Inc, Nashville, TN 37209 | Worker was using a power take-off (PTO) pump to transfer gasoline from one underground storage tank to another. The output pipe of the pump broke, spraying fuel over the worker. The fuel later ignited and the worker was seriously burned. He died the next day. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/12/10 | Cross Crete Concrete, Midland, TX 79706 | The company was applying a coat of stain and two coats of sealant. Two workers were observed outside the building getting air, as the fumes were getting to be too much. One worker fatality and one worker hospitalization. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/14/10 | AEE Tecnica de Aguadilla, Moca, PR 00676 | Worker was repairing damage to a 4160-Volt power line. The worker grabbed the part of the line which was not de-energized and was electrocuted, instantly causing his death. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/16/10 | AT&T Contracting, Philadelphia, PA 19124 | Worker was conducting roofing work, removing sky lights, and fell 50 feet to the lower level. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/16/10 | Clinton Hill Golf Course, Swansea, IL 62229 | Worker was spraying fertilizer with a utility cart boom sprayer. The cart overturned trapping the worker. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/16/10 | Walsh Construction, Gary, IN 46403 | Worker was working on highway with two other Walsh Construction workers and a subcontractor patching potholes. He was struck by a drunk driver speeding at up to 90 mph. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | 7-Eleven, Kansas City, MO 64134 | Worker was killed during a store robbery. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | Demolition Disposal Services Inc., Lexington, KY 40509 | Two workers were at the Lexington landfill loading one dumpster into another. During the process a chain became hung up and one worker stepped into the dumpster to free the chain. The dumpster fell on the worker. He was transported to the hospital where he later died. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | General Mills, Inc., Newdale, ID 83436 | Worker attempted to break a grain bridge manually by entering the bin and fell into the grain. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | Pacific Gas & Electric Co., Bencia, CA 94510 | Worker was working in a vault and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | Precision AG Service, Inc., Pocahontas, AR 72455 | Worker was in the process of transferring grain from one bin to another, and was found in a grain bin covered by a few feet of corn, 20 to 25 feet away from the door. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/17/10 | Roane Transportation, Rockwood, TN 37854 | Worker was standing on a flatbed trailer while a crane operator was loading three coils of steel onto the truck. The coils fell off the truck striking the worker who had jumped off the truck to get out of the way. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/18/10 | Cal-Sierra Pipe Inc., La Grand, CA 95333 | Worker was unloading pipe from a flatbed trailer when he was knocked off the trailer by pipe that then fell onto him. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/18/10 | Munday Machinery, Lakeland, FL 33809 | Worker was working on a large RV vehicle with the front suspended on a jack. The jack collapsed, and the vehicle fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/19/10 | Intermech Inc., Silverdale, WA 98605 | Worker was carrying an oxygen/acetylene hose. Worker was walking uphill across a roadway and was struck by an end loader. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/19/10 | Performance Contractors, Plaquemine, LA 70764 | Worker was directing the driver of an 18-wheeler truck backwards into a Poly A Unit. Worker ended up in a position where the 18-wheeler tires rolled over and crushed his head. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/19/10 | Pine Island Ridge Country Club, Davis, FL 33324 | Worker was driving a golf cart, picking up debris along the roadway, and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/19/10 | Spirit Aero Systems, Tulsa, OK 74116 | Worker was working on the airbrakes of the cab of a tractor trailer. The truck engine engaged and dragged the worker until the truck hit another building. Worker was found pinned between the left front tire and engine. |
FY 2010 | 03/20/10 | 03/20/10 | Reed's Salvage Corporation, Grafton, OH 44035 | Worker was accessing the area under a load and was crushed/struck-by the scrap vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/17/10 | GE Transportation, Kansas City, MO 64153 | Worker was working on the wheel and axle line, using an overhead bridge crane to lift a 5,100-lb locomotive wheel set. Worker lifted the locomotive wheel set, causing it to swing in a pendulum motion, pinning his leg against another stationary locomotive wheel set. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/17/10 | The Pit Stop, Chico, CA 95926 | Worker became entangled in the rear differential of a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/18/10 | Simpson Bridge Company Inc., Clevland, TN 37311 | Worker fell about 7 feet while pouring a concrete column for a new bridge. He was taken to the hospital where he died during back surgery. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/18/10 | Yacov Likhterman, Brooklyn, NY 11215 | Worker fell 25 feet off a manlift. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/19/10 | Bottom Dollar Tree Service, New Port Richey, FL 34654 | Worker was cutting tree branches and cut himself with a chainsaw. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/19/10 | Hidden Mill Marina Center, Egg Harbor Twp., NJ 08234 | Worker was working on a client's boat, and an explosion occurred. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/19/10 | Southern Pump and Tank Company, Charlotte, NC 28629 | Worker was working under a pull-behind compressor/generator and it fell off the jack stands. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/20/10 | Triple S Oilfield Construction, Odessa, TX 79766 | Worker received a severe electrical shock after an overhead crane derailed in the facility he was working in. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/21/10 | T.J.B. Logistics, LLC., Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046 | Worker fell off of an unguarded stair landing and struck his head on edge of stair tread 10 feet below. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/22/10 | Columbia Forest Productions, Presque Isle, ME 04769 | Worker went into a stacker to clean dust off a photocell eye. He did not use lockout/tagout, and after the dust was cleared away, the stacker activated. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/23/10 | Miles City Auction Yard Miles City, MT 59301 | Worker was trampled by a bull. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/23/10 | United States Infrastructure Corporation, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 | Worker was spray painting utility when he was struck by a vehicle. Worker later died on 3/19/2010. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/24/10 | 7-11 Store #13693, North Las Vegas, NV 89030 | Worker was fatally shot during a robbery and was pronounced dead at the scene. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/25/10 | AIM Construction, LLP, Delran, NJ 08075 | Two workers were moving an aluminum ladder. The ladder contacted an overhead power line. One worker was electrocuted and the other was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/26/10 | Phoenix Fabricators and Erectors, Cleburne, TX 76033 | Worker fell from an elevated water tower area. |
FY 2010 | 03/27/10 | 03/27/10 | Creative Biomass Inc., Fitchburg, MA 01420 | Worker was working on a motor, contacted live wires and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/17/10 | Lujan Drilling, Pecos, NM 87552 | Worker was operating a boom on a water well truck, when boom came in contact with overhead power line, electrocuting the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/23/10 | Washington Merchant Patrol, Federal Way, WA 92023 | Worker, at the end of fourth day on night shift, drove company car into back of parked trucks. He received multiple head injuries. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/26/10 | Hermann Brothers Logging and Construction, Port Angeles, WA 98362 | Worker was sitting on a conveyor and welding, when the conveyor system was energized causing the employee to be crushed. No locks were used to lockout the conveyor system. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/27/10 | Blackburn Farming, Firebaugh, CA 93622 | Worker was driving a JackRunner chipper. He left the cab of the chipper and got caught in the auger of the JackRabbit bank-out car. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/27/10 | Digital Domain, Venice, CA 90291 | Worker was checking on office of a coworker. The worker opened the window and stepped out on the ledge where he slipped and fell to the parking lot below - approximately 20 - 25 feet. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/28/10 | Velo Promo, Oakland, CA | Three volunteers setting up 40-foot portable antenna for radio communications during bicycle event. Top of antenna swayed 10 feet and touched high voltage line. One killed; one injured. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/29/10 | Anderson Erickson Dairy, De Moines, IA 50317 | Worker was attempting to clear a jammed flat of milk product containers when the ram actuator started moving forward, pinning the worker between the actuator and positioning post, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/29/10 | Cal Trans, Oakland, CA 94612 | Worker fell from 15-story building to 6th floor atrium. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/29/10 | JAF Company Telephone Contractor, Yauco, PR 00698 | Worker was installing a telephone cable while standing on a fiberglass ladder. He came in contact with a 4,000-Volt electrical line and fell 15 feet to the ground and died. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/30/10 | Asplundh Tree Expert Co., Moutheard, KY 41548 | Two workers had begun setting up traffic demarcations alongside the highway. The workers were struck by a tractor trailer whose brakes failed. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/30/10 | Coopers Creek Store, Bryson City, NC 28713 | Worker complained about not feeling well. He went to the basement of the store where he was running a gasoline powered generator. He was found at the bottom of the stairs. It was reported that carbon monoxide levels in the basement measured greater than 900 parts per million. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 03/30/10 | Village of Homewood - Fire Department, Homewood, IL 60430 | During a rescue attempt at a fully engulfed residential fire, two firefighters were injured and taken to the hospital. One firefighter died from his injuries. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/01/10 | MagnaGro Corporation, Lawrence, KS 66046 | Two workers were cleaning a clogged pipe at the bottom of an enclosed molasses tank and were asphyxiated in the tank. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/01/10 | Michael F. Ronca & Sons, Inc., Nottingham, PA 19362 | Worker was performing work on filter galleries of a waste water treatment plant. Worker appeared to have a heart attack and fell 9 feet to the bottom of the filtering bed, suffering head trauma. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/01/10 | Robinson Drilling of Texas, Ltd., Midland, TX 79701 | Worker was on a twelve-foot ladder and tapped on a valve connection from a pump union. The union struck and destroyed the ladder. Worker fell and was impaled on debris. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/01/10 | Village of Washington Park, Washington Park, IL 62204 | Mayor of the Village of Washington Park was driving through the village at 6 a.m., after leaving his second job. He stopped when someone asked for assistance and was shot twice by someone in a passing car. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/02/10 | Color Star Growers of Colorado, Fort Lupton, CO 80621 | Worker was transporting roofing materials and fell from height. |
FY 2010 | 04/03/10 | 04/02/10 | Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company, Anacortes, WA 98221 | A naphtha hydrotreater located at a refinery released fuel which ignited. Five workers died; two were critically injured. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 02/12/10 | D & P Trucking, Inc., Tucson, AZ 85742 | Owner was in the process of cleaning the scissor lift. He raised the lift, making contact with overhead power lines, and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 03/04/10 | Thermal Conditioning Inc., Charlotte, NC 28278 | Worker was performing air conditioning work on the roof a building when he fell 25 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 03/20/10 | Jif Trucking, El Monte, CA 91733 | Worker was walking at a truck stop when he was struck and killed by a tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 03/26/10 | Penro Construction Company, Inc., Macy, NE 68039 | Worker was working on a water line in a trench at a depth of 9 feet. The wrench he was using slipped off of the bolt and he fell backwards into a deeper trench at a depth of 14 feet and struck his right knee on a cast iron fitting. Worker had a heart attack/blood clot. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 03/31/10 | Morgan Builders, Inc., New York, NY 10011 | Worker fell down the stairway. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/01/10 | Ed Yamashiro, Inc., Kaneohe, HI 96744 | Heavy equipment driver was in the process of stepping down backwards from a low-boy trailer when he fell and hit his head on the asphalt. He never regained consciousness and died 4 days later. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/02/10 | Peterson Construction, Blairsburg, IA 50034 | A free-standing masonry wall that was approximately 12 feet long by 22 feet high collapsed, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/02/10 | Rich Contracting LLC, Waveland, MS 39576 | Worker was struck by a pickup truck. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/05/10 | Auto Truck Group, Inc., Barlett, IL 60103 | Worker was mounting a crane on a truck. The crane fell and hit the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/05/10 | Black Hills Trucking, Killdeer, ND 58640 | Worker was installing floor plates on a drilling rig. The bridal line and equalizer fell to the derrick floor, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/05/10 | Timberwolf Thinning LLC, Greensburg, LA 70441 | Worker had exited his truck and walked in back of the skidder. The skidder backed over the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/06/10 | Brian's Professional Cleaning & Restoration Co., Inc., Bethlehem, PA 18015 | Worker was remodeling a residential home and fell through a second floor window opening onto a pump jack scaffold and then onto the ground. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/06/10 | JBS United, Inc., Union City, TN 38261 | Truck driver was at a location to pick up a load. He was somehow run over by another truck. He was underneath the truck and dragged 100 feet. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/06/10 | Overton County Sheriff Department, Livingston, TN 38570 | Sheriff Deputy was walking through the woods, working a cold case, and fell 161 feet into a sink hole. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/06/10 | Whataburger Restaurants, Houston, TX 77040 | Worker was inspecting the parking lot and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | A Bagnoll & Sons, Inc., Hudson, OH 44236 | Two workers were working in a trench without trench protection and the trench collapsed. One worker fatality and one worker was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | ADF Industries Inc., Milford, CT 06460 | Worker was instructed to drive the excavator back to the laydown yard. The excavator boom was elevated and struck a steel girder of an overpass. This caused the excavator to move to the center lane where it was struck by a tractor trailer. Worker was ejected from the excavator and was run over by the rear wheels of the tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | API Construction, LLC, Oaklyn, NJ 08107 | Worker was sandblasting the bottom of a water tower and fell to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | Delta Timber Co., Inc., Delta, CO 81416 | Worker was dislodging lumber from a piece of equipment and another piece of lumber entered the area, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | Modern Painting & Decorating, New Kensington, PA 15068 | Worker was positioned on the roof of a building, painting the exterior, using a plastic pole that had an aluminum pole on the inside of the plastic paint stick with a metal roller that was connected to the pole. The paint roller or pole contacted a high voltage 7,500 Volt energized electric power line. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | Solarcity Corporation, San Pablo, CA 94806 | Worker fell from a three story roof onto a concrete walkway. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | Specified Urethane Systems, Plano, TX 75074 | Worker was installing a roof and fell 20 feet through a skylight, landing on the ground. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/07/10 | Wallace Cotton, Centertown, KY 42328 | Logger was attempting to dislodge a tree that did not fall after it was cut. He attempted to cut another tree to hit the lodged tree. The second tree fell on him. He had worked for the company for one week. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/08/10 | MOD Space, San Antonio, TX 78222 | Worker was working on his own vehicle and was pinned by the forks of a forklift and the vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/09/10 | The Tiger and Elephant Encounter, Wilkes Barre, PA 18704 | Worker was kicked by an elephant. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/10/10 | Amitron Corp., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 | Worker working in a room with inert chemicals was found unconscious; apparent heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 04/10/10 | 04/10/10 | Kirberg Roofing, Inc., Kansas City, MO 64120 | Worker walked on the un-barricade or uncovered cut section of a roof decking and fell. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 11/19/09 | Bowen Service Company, Smyrna, GA 30080 | Worker was on the roof cleaning out the gutters. He moved the aluminum ladder to relocate to another part of the roof and contacted a power line. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 01/13/10 | Tioga Fire Co #1, Tioga Center, NY 13734 | While responding to an emergency call, worker struck the rear of a recycling truck that was stopped. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 02/22/10 | Vegas Tunnel Constructors, Boulder City, Clark County, NV | Worker death originally considered as result of heart attack. An investigation is now being conducted after receiving information that other factors may have contributed to his death. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 03/13/10 | Choyce Products, Honolulu, HI 96819 | Worker was pulling frozen food boxes for customer orders while standing on a wooden pallet lifted up by a company forklift truck. The forklift operator lowered the forklift, with worker still on pallet, to approximately 10 feet above the concrete floor, and began backing up. Operator heard something fall and found the worker lying face down on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/02/10 | Tesoro Refining & Marketing Company, Anacortes, WA 98221 | A naphtha hydrotreater, located at the refinery, released fuel which ignited. Initial count: five workers died; two were critically injured. Update: one of the critically injured has died. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/06/10 | Bob Frolic Room (Bar), Los Angeles, CA 90028 | Worker who was pushed by one of the customers, fell and hit his head on the floor. He was taken off life support on 4/15/2010. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/07/10 | James Anderson Logging, Inc., Moravian Falls, NC 28654 | Worker was found underneath skidder's rear tire, after skidder was pulled into deck. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/10/10 | Compton Transfer and Storage Co., Boise, ID 83706 | Worker was backing a forklift out of a truck and the truck moved away from the dock. The forklift and worker fell out the back of the truck onto the concrete pad. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/11/10 | Inder Singh, Vegetable Farm, Lodi, CA | Worker fell off the tractor and was run over by the disc. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/12/10 | McKenzie Trucking, Inc., Hanover, MD 21076 | Worker was attempting to unload slabs of granite from the bed of a truck when the slabs tipped over and fell on him, causing fatal head injuries. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/12/10 | Murph South Construction Co., Inc., Seaside Heights, NJ 08751 | Worker fell off of an unprotected edge of a roof. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/12/10 | Unit Drilling Company, Opelousas, LA 70570 | Worker was struck by a 50-pound weight ball. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/12/10 | Waste Management, Ft. Myers, FL 33913 | Worker was dumping trash into the back of a waste management vehicle and was struck by a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/13/10 | AP Specialty Metals, Inc., Alpharetta, GA 30004 | Worker was operating the Coil to Coil Polishing Machine and was caught in the coil portion of the machine. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/14/10 | Exeion Business Services Company, Bedford Park, IL 60638 | Worker was assigned to move a wooden crate with nine large insulators that weighed 2,800 lbs. In the process of loading the crate onto the rear of the flatbed truck, the crate fell over, crushing the worker between the crate and the rear of the truck. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/14/10 | Oconee Fast Truck, Norcross, GA 30093 | Worker was repairing a roof and fell through the skylight, 20 feet to the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/14/10 | Roslyn Auto Express, Roslyn, NY 11577 | Worker was cleaning a dump truck and was pinned between the dump body and truck frame. |
FY 2010 | 04/17/10 | 04/15/10 | Clark Moving & Storage Inc., Rochester, NY 14624-1124 | Worker was caught between fork truck and another vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/15/10 | Argo Chemical, Inc., Bakersfield, CA 93263 | Worker was in a boom lift, taking pictures, and was electrocuted after coming in contact with power lines. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/18/10 | Special Operations Associates, Inc., Las Vegas, NV 89169 | Security guard shot in the face by unidentified assailants while taking a break on the job. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/18/10 | Union 76, Daly City, CA 94015 | Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/19/10 | Becon, Port Arthur, TX 77640 | Worker was under a load when the boom of the crane collapsed, dropping the load on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/19/10 | Desert Sky Mobile Home Park, LLC, Las Vegas, NV, 89120 | Worker was repairing swamp cooler units. He slipped from a ladder and struck his face on a fence post. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/19/10 | Las Flores Convalescent Hospital, Gardena, CA 90249 | Worker was storing supplies, fell backward, and sustained a fatal head injury. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/19/10 | Midas Auto Center, Westmont, IL 60559 | Worker was welding on a 55-gallon drum of what might have been methanol and a explosion/fire occurred. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/19/10 | Tom Thumb Store #3560, Dallas, TX 75231 | Worker was backing a truck into an inclined loading dock. He got out to check on the dock clearance and walked between the truck and the dock wall. The truck rolled back on him. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/20/10 | Pike Electric, Inc, Mount Airy, North Carolina 28719 | Worker was thrown from the seat of the digger derrick truck as the boom detached from the truck. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/20/10 | Treeman Landscaping, Bethel Park, PA 15102 | Worker was cutting a limb from a tree, the tree fell and contacted an uninsulated 13.2 KV electric line. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/21/10 | Nordic Cord Storage, Buckmart, GA 30153 | Worker was operating a forklift, pulling pallets from a bin. He pulled a pallet and the pallet above fell and spilled product on the floor. He got off the forklift, tripped and slid on the concrete floor, he was knocked out. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/22/10 | Birds Eye Foods, Waseca, MN 56093 | Worker fell unconscious while participating in a hazardous material response drill. He was wearing a respirator and protective clothing at the time. He died at the hospital. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/22/10 | Weyerhaeuser Company, Port Wentworth, GA 31407 | Worker was walking down the roadway to his car and was struck by a rough terrain Lull forklift. Worker was dragged 30 feet under the Lull along the roadway. |
FY 2010 | 04/24/10 | 04/23/10 | Clean Earth of North Jersey, Inc., Kearny, NJ 07032 | Worker was struck by a loader. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 02/22/10 | Gilster-Mary Lee Corporation, Wilson, AR 72395 | Worker was riding on a freight elevator; placed his head over the elevator's gate before it stopped and was caught in a pinch point between the gate and the second floor. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 03/10/10 | Sallee, Inc., Dodge City, KS 67801 | Worker was transferring chemicals from tractor trailer to stand alone trailer. He reached over a power take-off (PTO) shaft and his coat got caught on a screw. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/08/10 | Blackwell Electric Inc., Lampass, TX 76550 | Worker was in the process of replacing a line and collapsed. Not sure of heart attack or electrocution. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/12/10 | Cub Foods Mankato West, Mankato, MN 56001 | Worker suffered shoulder strain while installing portable greenhouse. Over time, developed severe pain and was sent back to physician. He died on April 22 from an infection. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/15/10 | Ozark's Electric Cooperative Corporation, Fayetteville, AR 72702 | Worker was pouring cable lubricant from a 5-gallon bucket into a new conduit near the floor of an underground primary switch. Worker lost his footing and contacted the energized portion of the switch. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/19/10 | Wal-Mart, Sylva, NC 28779 | Worker climbed onto a rack. While attempting to access the ladder, missed it and fell to the concrete floor below. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/21/10 | The Lane Construction Corporation, Washington, NC 27889 | Worker was struck by a 20-foot steel column that broke loose from its rigging while being moved by a crane from one location to another. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/22/10 | Dillon Companies, Inc., Woodland Park, CO 88862 | Worker was performing some welding of conduit pipe. The worker was welding on a floor next to a fryer. The wheel of the fryer rolled into a drain, causing the fryer to tip. Hot oil at 325 degrees was dumped on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/23/10 | Rice Plumbing, Inc., Beaville, TX 78102 | Worker was standing on the back of a pickup, loading PVC pipe, lost his balance and fell from the truck, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/24/10 | Helmerick & Payne International Drilling Co., Sycamore, PA 15364 | Worker was hit in the head by a broken valve and related piping after the high-pressurized water line blew. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/26/10 | Battle Creek Farmers Coop, Bloomfield, NE 68718-4000 | Worker was loading a semi with the use of a drag conveyor in a corn storage building and was engulfed in grain. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/26/10 | New York City Transit Authority, Division of Tracks, Forest Hills, NY 11375 | Track maintenance supervisor was electrocuted after coming into contact with a high voltage rail while working in the capital track group. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/26/10 | Nye County Sheriff's Office, Pahrump, NV 89060 | Deputy Sheriff was shot to death while responding to a domestic violence call. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/27/10 | Griffin Roofing, Inc., Weddington, NC 28104 | Worker fell approximately 18 feet onto a slate porch while installing a slate roof on a residence. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/28/10 | BRB Contractors Inc., Angola, KS 67357 | Worker had cut the last band holding a bundle of pipe together and was crushed after the poly pipe shifted. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/29/10 | Schreiber Foods Inc., Stephenville, TX 76401 | Worker was repairing a hose on a hydraulic dock plate and the dock plate fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 05/01/10 | 04/30/10 | Golden Arrow Concrete Pumping, Houston,TX 77045 | Worker was to determine why a boom section of a concrete pumping truck would not retract. A bolt on the holding valve was loosened and nearly removed, high pressure hydraulic fluid blew the valve and bolt from the cylinder, striking the worker who was sitting in the boom. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 08/14/09 | Tec Electric Co., Richmond, UT 84333 | Worker installing electrical wiring in a false ceiling, fell from ladder. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/19/10 | Tonopah Family Restaurant, LLC, Tonopah, AZ 85354 | Maintenance worker tripped on top rung of ladder and fell from roof. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/27/10 | VHP Enterprises Inc., Manns Harbor Bridge, Dare County, NC | Bridge painter, not wearing a life vest, fell 18 feet from the bridge to the water and was swept away. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/28/10 | Stanley Steemer International, Inc., Palatine, IL 60067 | Worker fell from ladder. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/29/10 | Fertig Drilling Company, Elko, NV 89803 | A worker loading drill rods onto a carousel was struck in the head by dislodged rod. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/29/10 | Lexington Division of Police, Lexington, KY 40507 | A police officer investigating loud music from a vehicle was struck and killed by passing vehicle, in a hit and run accident. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/29/10 | Marcus De Los Santos, San Antonio, TX 78207 | Worker was descending from a scaffold and fell seven stories. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 04/30/10 | C & F Forge, Batavia, IL 60510 | Worker was shoveling coal and became overheated and died. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/02/10 | Nationwide Insurance, Union, OH 45322 | Worker was doing a roofing inspection and fell. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/03/10 | Fisher Concrete Inc., Holland, NY 14080 | Worker was crushed in a trench collapse. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/03/10 | George's Tire, Dickinson, ND 56801-7164 | Worker was struck by a vehicle that was backing out of the garage stall. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/03/10 | Parsec, Inc., Atlanta, GA 30318 | Worker was standing between a loaded trailer and an unloaded trailer chassis. He was crushed between the unloaded chassis and the loaded trailer after a truck collided with the unloaded chassis. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/04/10 | North Florida Tower Service, Inc., Hines, FL 32347 | Worker was working on a communication tower that was 240 feet in height, slipped, and fell from the tower. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/04/10 | Union Drilling, Inc., Lovington, NM 88260 | A worker fell 90 feet from the derrick onto the drilling platform, while tipping pipe into a well. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/05/10 | Amtec Corporation, Huntsville, AL 35898 | Two workers were recovering/extracting ammonium perchlorate, and both were severely burned and died after a fire/explosion took place. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/05/10 | Commercial Aquatic Services, Tustin, CA 92780 | Pool maintenance worker drowned while servicing pool drain. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/05/10 | Murph's Roofing & Repairs, Lawrenceville, GA 30045 | Worker was in the process of re-roofing and fell 13 feet. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/05/10 | Patterson - UTI Drilling Company, LP, Midkiff, TX 79755 | Worker was making a drill stem connection and was struck on the head by the pipe after it was lifted from the mousehole. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/06/10 | 372 Doughty Blvd Corporation, Inwood, NY 11096 | Worker was leaning over a parapet wall to take measurement of windows and fell from roof. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/06/10 | D.H. Pace Company, Inc. dba Overhead Door of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA 30354-3926 | Worker was installing a 12-foot roll-up door from a ladder and fell. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/06/10 | Dynasty Transportation, Harvey, LA 70058 | Worker was found lying in a pool of blood in the parking yard. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/06/10 | North Western Energy, Columbia Falls, MT 59912 | Worker was responding to a gas leak in a 2-inch gas main and was struck by debris from the house that exploded. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/07/10 | D.O.D. Fort Hood Network Enterprise Center, Fort Hood, TX 76544 | Worker was operating a bucket truck to raise a communications wire that was hanging too low. A truck drove by and caught the cable, pulling the worker out of the bucket truck 20 feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 05/08/10 | 05/08/10 | Gloria's Produce, Houston, TX 77022 | Worker was removing produce from a truck. He was entering a glass enclosed back porch and his hand went through the plate glass window. A piece of glass came down and cut the main blood vessels in his arm. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 12/02/09 | Dempsey Electric, Houston, TX 77079 | Worker was making an electrical connection in a junction box, working from an 8-foot ladder, and fell striking his face on a concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/02/10 | Blue Sky Mason, Honolulu, HI 96822 | A tree trimmer died after becoming inverted in his harness and being unable to free himself. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/05/10 | Tampa International Shipyard, Tampa, FL 33610 | Worker was sent to check on an electrical panel and was found unconscious. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/06/10 | 3M Company, Cynthiana, KY 41031 | Worker was electrocuted by static electricity built up on a plastic film roll line. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/06/10 | Menifee County Fiscal Court, Wellington, KY 40387 | Worker suffered fatal injuries after falling off a moving garbage truck. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/08/10 | Carmel High School, Carmel, IN 46033 | Maintenance worker was fatally injured when the riding lawn mower he was using exploded. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/08/10 | OUI Deliver, LTD, Addison, IL 60101 | Worker was underneath a semi-trailer working on the driveshaft when the trailer began rolling backwards toward the street. Worker was caught and dragged along with the semi-tractor. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/09/10 | A Class Towing Corp., Miami, FL 33145 | Worker was getting out of his tow truck and was struck by a motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/10/10 | Baillie Roofing & Construction Inc., New Pot Richey, FL | Worker was on a roof performing an estimate for a re-roofing job and was stung by a wasp. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/10/10 | Caliber Oil Field Services, Dimock, PA 18816 | Worker was working from an elevated platform on the mast of a drilling rig and was struck by a rotating steel casing. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/10/10 | Jeffboat LLC, Jeffersonville, IN 47130 | Worker was carrying a welding feeder case on the port side of a barge, lost his hold on the case. In trying to keep the case from falling, grabbed the whipline, and was pulled between the rails. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/10/10 | Mr. Bult's Inc., Antioch, TN 37013 | Worker was buried under waste being pushed into a trailer by a bulldozer, and suffocated. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | Angel Brothers Enterprises, LTD, Lockhart, TX 78644 | Worker was engaged in testing asphalt and was run over by the truck. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | Baker Pile Driving and Site Work LLC, Shreveport, LA 71115 | Worker was changing out a boom section and removed the wrong pin, causing the boom to open up from the bottom, striking him. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | Ferris Metal Processing, Brooklyn, OH 44144 | Worker was struck on the head by banding. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | First Baptist Church of Alhambra, Alhambra, CA 91801 | Maintenance worker was overcome while using a chemical stripper to prepare for painting. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | Metheny Commercial Lawn Maintenance, Grand Prairie, TX 75051 | Worker was removing debris with a leaf blower and was struck by an automobile. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | N.G.A. Company, Brooklyn, NY 11222 | Worker fell from a pump jack scaffold after a section of the work platform collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/11/10 | Signature Landscape Design & Irrigation, Boyton Beach, FL 33484 | Worker was operating a riding lawn mower on a sloped area of a retention pond. Worker rolled the mower over into the pond and was trapped under the mower and water, drowning. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/12/10 | ChapmanTrucking, Parshall, ND 58770 | Worker was dismantling an oil rig and was crushed between a forklift and a truck. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/12/10 | Norampac Industries Inc. Niagara Falls Division, Niagara Falls, NY 14303 | Worker was crushed between a forklift truck and a roll of paper. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/12/10 | Reliable Container Corporation, San Francisco, CA 90670 | Worker suffered fatal injuries after being pinned between a forklift and machine. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/12/10 | Robinson Drilling of Texas, LTD, Rankin, TX 79778 | Worker, disconnected from his fall protection, stepped off or fell off the monkeyboard. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/13/10 | Ortowski Construction, Gainesville, TX 76240 | Worker was running alongside a forklift to jump on, slipped, fell, and was run over by the forklift. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/13/10 | Reid Construction Company, Carrollton, GA 30117 | Worker was laying sod and was later found unconscious. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/13/10 | Security and Safe of Colorado, Littleton, CO 80127 | Worker was installing a safe that fell off its cribbing, pinning the worker. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/14/10 | BenchMark Wireline Products, Simonton, TX 77476 | Worker was assisting with moving a metal conveyor containing metal shavings, which was being lifted by a jib crane. The load shifted and the end of the conveyor struck the worker on the chest. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/14/10 | Brickman Group dba Grass-Roots, Inc., Olathe, KS 66061-5879 | Worker was mowing a grassy hill along a creek and was later found pinned under the mower in the creek. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/14/10 | Jeffboat LLC, Jeffersonville, IN 47130 | Worker was working at the bottom of a barge, cleaning it up. He was at the top of a ladder with a broom in one hand, his other hand released from the ladder and he fell back, striking a concrete structure. |
FY 2010 | 05/15/10 | 05/14/10 | John McLoughlin General Contractor, Bradley Beach, NJ 07720 | Worker fell from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 04/12/10 | Roosevelt Fire Department, Engine Co. #1, Hyde Park, NY 12538 | Worker died after developing chest pains while training. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/11/10 | Hixon Home Improvement, Highland, IN 46322 | Worker died from head injuries after falling down stairs, while moving a chest freezer. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/12/10 | FS Commercial Landscaping, Carson, CA 92509 | Worker died after he began vomiting and shaking. He was moved to the shade and first aid was administered (presumed heat stress). |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/13/10 | A & M Carpentry, Olney, MD 20832 | Worker died after falling 23 feet from an extension ladder. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/13/10 | Capstar Austin Partners, LP dba Doubletree Austin, Austin, TX 78752 | Worker was cleaning out a deep fat fryer and spilled some hot grease, receiving a significant burn to his left leg. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/13/10 | John Davis Trucking Company, Battle Mountain, NV 89820 | Driver suffered fatal injuries after truck left the road and overturned. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/13/10 | Scholastic Book Fair, Inc., Bloomingdale, IL 60108 | Worker was working from a cherry picker and fell. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/14/10 | NC State Natural Resources Foundation, Inc., Maysville, NC 28555 | Worker died after being backed over by a truck while walking along the road. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/15/10 | Eagle Sorters, LLC, Porter, TX 77365 | Worker was painting a dredging vessel. He was down in a hole, located inside the vessel, and an explosion occurred. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/15/10 | Super Mart Convenience Store, Las Vegas, NV 89108 | Convenience store worker died after being shot during a robbery. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/17/10 | C.D. Davenport, Inc., Northfield, MA 01360 | Worker was struck by 8-inch high density polyethylene (HDPE) water piping that burst. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/17/10 | Saxon Drilling Rig 140, Damascus, AR 72039 | Worker was on top of a generator house preparing for hook-up and was found unconscious. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/18/10 | BIS Frucon Industrial Services Inc., Perry, FL 32347 | Worker stepped in front of a Lull® telehandler and was run over. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/18/10 | Conveyor & Storage Systems Co. Inc., Portland, PA 18343 | Worker fell from a mezzanine, 11 feet above the lower level. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/19/10 | Alpha Auto Repair, LLC, Crestwood, IL 60445 | Worker was pinned between two vehicles as he tried to stop a car from rolling out of a car bay. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/19/10 | Ellis Arms Logging, Wartburg, TN 37912 | Worker died after being struck by a tree during a logging operation. The tree was supposed to fall in the opposite direction. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/19/10 | Post Road Fuel Incorporated, Warwick, RI 02888 | Worker put a car on the car lift and raised the car 4 feet, to repair the left front tire, and the worker went under the car. The front of the car started leaning toward the floor, then fell to the floor; the rear of the car then came off the lift, falling to the floor. The worker was still under the car and was crushed. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/20/10 | Artic Car Sales, Inc., Rapid City, SD 57701 | Worker was crushed by an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) after it rolled over during a photo shoot. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/20/10 | CBI Services, East Windsor, NJ 08520 | Worker was inside a water tower ascending a ladder and fell. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/20/10 | National Park Service, American Fork, UT 84003 | Worker was riding a motorized bike up a trail and went off the edge of the trail, falling 1000 feet. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/20/10 | Nordpal Corporation, Galesburg, IL 61401 | Worker was repairing a large overhead hanger door, and was later found caught in the folded door. |
FY 2010 | 05/22/10 | 05/21/10 | Trinity Marine Products Inc., Madisonville, LA 70447 | Worker was fitting and welding into place a center line frame on a barge. The frame fell on the worker, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 01/19/10 | Sabinsa Corp., Payson, UT 84651 | Worker died after inhaling a selenium compound. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/19/10 | Louisville Metro Public Works & Assets Department, Louisville, KY 40217 | Sanitation worker died after being struck by a garbage truck. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/22/10 | Brinkley Farms, Dos Palos, CA 93620 | Worker servicing the hydraulic system on cultivator tractor, was crushed by the cultivator tractor tire. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/22/10 | Scales Mound Fire Department, Scales Mound, IL 61075 | Worker searching for missing person was killed when his all-terrain vehicle (ATV) struck a deer and rolled over. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/23/10 | Cirrus Flight Operations, Blaine, MN 55449 | Worker was refueling trucks used to refuel airplanes. Worker was found dead on top of a truck with his head in the refueling hole. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/23/10 | Unilever, Hammond, IN 46320 | Worker servicing an 800-pound temperature probe/agitator, used to mix contents in rail cars, died after being hit/crushed by the agitator. Safety latch on a jib crane failed. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/24/10 | Done-Rite Tree Company, Inc., Caldwell, ID 83605 | Worker was using a chainsaw to cut through a tree stump when the chainsaw got stuck in the stump. A skid steer with a grapple attachment was used to push against the stump to free the chainsaw. The worker motioned for more pressure on the stump, and then he bent down and forward to look at the chainsaw. The grapple cycle shot, striking the worker in the temple area. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/24/10 | Doran's Inc., North Haven, CT 06473 | Worker was stabbed by patron with a knife. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/24/10 | GBC Metals LLC., dba Olin Brass Somers Thin Strip, Waterbury, CT 06720 | Worker was performing a heat change on a furnace and was running the product. Worker was later found caught up in the rolls of the bridle. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/25/10 | Design Metals, Columbia, MO 65203 | Working was removing roof panels, became tangled with either an electrical cord or rope. He disconnected his fall protection to untangle it, stepped back and fell through a section of the roof that had been removed, falling 23 to 25 feet to the concrete below. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/27/10 | ESCO, Windsor, CT 06095 | Worker was working on an electrical system. Unknown whether the worker sustained injuries from an electrical shock, natural causes, or a fall from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/27/10 | Roth Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY 11205 | Worker doing steel erection fell 60 feet from a structural steel beam. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/28/10 | AAA Asphalt Paving, Inc., Pasadena, TX 77502 | Worker was probing a ditch for gas lines and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/28/10 | Chalfont Custom Painting, Chalfont, PA 18914 | Worker was trimming branches from a tree using a metal painter's pole near a 2400 Volt electrical wire. Worker was later found on the ground at the bottom of the ladder. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 05/29/10 | 05/28/10 | Paul Construction Company LLC, Mountain Home, AR 72653 | Worker was installing new cell phone cables and antennas. He was descending the tower and fell 240 feet. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 12/23/09 | Diamond D Ranch, Inc., Stanley, ID 83278 | Worker was operating a front end loader on a narrow mountain road and the loader rolled over. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/27/10 | Wada Farms Potatoes Inc., Pingree, ID 83262 | Worker fell 10 feet from a bin. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/28/10 | High Sierra Energy, LP, Wheeler, TX 79096 | Worker was transferring liquid petroleum from a tank battery to his tanker truck, and an explosion/fire occurred. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/29/10 | MOC, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 15219 | Worker fell from the roof of a 55-story office building. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/31/10 | Advanced Composites, Inc., Sidney, OH 45365 | Worker was operating a forklift. She was caught/crushed between the forklift and a stack of palletized Gaylord boxes containing plastic pellets. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/31/10 | Jim Hovis dba Hovis Transportation, Champaign, IL 61822 | Worker was delivering a semi-trailer load of pallets to a warehouse and was run over by his truck. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/31/10 | Mill Run Logging, Inc., Tioga, WV 26691 | Worker was cutting a felled tree. The tree fell into a larger adjacent tree, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 03/31/10 | Planters Cotton Oil Mill, Inc., Pine Bluff, AR 71601 | Worker was assisting in cleaning the clean-up room, and was having trouble breathing. Worker had an asthma attack. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/20/10 | Clark County Child Support-Family Support Division, Las Vegas, NV 89119 | Worker died from heart failure, several days after suffering 3 broken ribs from falling on the floor on the way to the restroom. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/26/10 | Champion Cooler Corp., Denison, TX 76020 | Worker collapsed in men's bathroom due to a massive stroke. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/26/10 | Unknown (TBD - possibly friend of homeowner), Abington, PA 19001 | Worker was not wearing a harness, 20 feet in the air, cutting a tree limb, the limb broke, swung around and knocked the worker from the ladder he was working from. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/27/10 | Heckert Construction, Pittsburg, KS 66762 | Worker was standing on the ground, tarping his truck with a roll of overtarping, and fell backwards striking his head on the pavement. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/27/10 | Randy Morris Logging, Waynesboro, TN 38485 | Worker was topping a tree while a second worker was felling another tree. The tree being felled, twisted and struck the first worker topping a tree. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/28/10 | Triad International Maintenance Corporation, Greensboro, NC 27410 | Worker died after falling 30 feet from a floor opening on a mobile scaffold while performing maintenance on an aircraft. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/29/10 | Windsor Door Sales, Inc., Albuquerque NM 87114 | Worker repairing an overhead garage door, fell from the ladder and struck his head. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 05/30/10 | Unit Texas Drilling, LLC, Cleburn, TX 76033 | Worker rigging-up; fell 90 feet to the derrick floor. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Bulk Transport Corporation, Michigan City, IN 46360 | Mechanic was crushed under an unsecured forklift that he was working on. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Francois Lessard, T3R13, ME 04462 | Worker was operating a propane cook stove and was severely burned after the propane gas system ignited causing a fire and/or explosion. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Jennings Implement Co., Bement, IL 61813-1347 | Worker was working on a chisel plow. He became trapped between the tire and the plow. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | L & S Packing Company, Inc., East Farmingdale, NY 11735 | Worker was putting labels on boxes and was crushed by falling pallets. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Mankato Place Ramp, Mankato, MN 56001 | Worker died after falling from a 5-story ramp. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Sobarea Ranch, Fremont, CA 94539 | Farm worker climbed onto stack of hay and fell into the hay baling machine. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/01/10 | Universal Maintenance Services dba APM Terminals, La Porte, TX 77571 | Worker was removing a sign from the front of her truck and was struck by another truck. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/02/10 | Express Energy Services, Azle, TX 76020 | Worker was trying to stab a pipe into the bottom of an elevator. The bottom bale of the elevator struck the pipe and swung into the worker, striking the worker on the face/head. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/02/10 | Feher Rubbish Removal Inc., Canastota, NY 13032 | Worker was caught and crushed between rails of a roll container truck. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/02/10 | N.C. Department of Transportation, Wilmington, NC 28401 | One worker was killed and another was injured when they were struck by a tractor trailer on Interstate 40, as they were closing a lane preparing to start bridge construction. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/02/10 | Rocha Construction, Lees Summit, MO 64086 | Worker was engaged in the setting of a structural steel beam, either fell on top or was struck by the beam as it fell from the top of a concrete basement wall. |
FY 2010 | 06/05/10 | 06/03/10 | Delta Airlines, Madison, WI 53704 | Worker was cleaning planes and was exposed to chemicals. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 05/22/10 | Viper Construction, Wayne, PA 19087 | Worker was climbing down a ladder with tools in his hand and slipped through the ladder, fell backwards, striking his head. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 05/26/10 | Unknown (TBD), Muncie, IN 47303 | Plumber working in a well was overcome by muriatic acid fumes. Passerby trying to rescue him was overcome and later died. Two volunteer firefighters were hospitalized. Plumber may have been off duty. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 05/26/10 | Watson Tree Service, Henderson, TX 75654 | Worker was trimming a tree and received an electrical shock. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/03/10 | Sabra, Wang & Associates, Inc., Annapolis, MD 21401 | Worker died after being struck and run over by an unknown motor vehicle that kept going; worker was thrown into the center lane and run over a second time by a tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/05/10 | Swift Transportation, Phoenix, AZ 85038 | Worker died after tractor trailer he was driving ran off the road and turned over. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | C & H Power Line Construction, Co., Cleburne, TX 76033 | Worker was performing drilling operations with an auger-type drilling machine to install and set utility poles into the ground. During the drilling process, a high pressure liquefied natural gas pipeline was struck and ruptured. One fatality and six wor |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | Dryden Diving, Buchanan, NY 10511 | Worker was performing repairs under water. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | Melga Sales Corp, Brooklyn, NY 11231 | Worker was reglazing a bathtub and was found dead. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | Premier Maintenance, Inc., Milford, CT 06460 | Worker was power washing a three-story house and was moving a ladder, lost his hold, the ladder went back hitting a primary conductive power line. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | Tampa Electric Company, Tampa, FL 33602 | Worker contacted a power transmission line. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | The Grain Systems, Inc., Newton, IL 62448 | Worker was operating an automated laser cutter and became caught in a pinch point after the structure that holds the laser cutter moved to the right front area near the metal structure of the machine. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/07/10 | Travel Centers of America, North Haven, CT 06473 | Worker was in the process of filling fuel into a tractor trailer and was struck by another tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/08/10 | Diego Landscaping Services, Inc., Miami, FL 33133 | Worker was working from a mango tree; his pruner struck an overhead powerline and he was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/08/10 | Jimmy Ray Adams, Washington, NC 27889 | Residential construction worker doing framing fell from a makeshift scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/08/10 | KSM Construction, Alhambra, CA 91803 | Worker died after falling unconscious while moving a pry bar during welding activities. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/08/10 | Nick Thomas Inc., Canadian, TX 79014 | Workers were excavating caliche for an oil field location pad. The bulldozer nicked an unidentified pipeline, resulting in an explosion. Two worker fatalities and one worker was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/08/10 | Trafalgar Supply Company, Plant City, FL 33566 | Worker had delivered a load of steel tubing on a flat bed trailer and was struck by a bundle of steel tubing that was being off-loaded. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/09/10 | Fresh Wave LLC, Vineland, NJ 08360 | Worker was crushed between a tractor trailer and a loading dock. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/10/10 | Unit Drilling Co., Wheeler, TX 79096 | Workers were moving a weighted sign to the entrance of a rig site with a forklift; questionable lightning strike. One worker fatality and one worker hospitalization. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/11/10 | Lux Brothers, Inc., Millbank, SD 57252 | Worker was struck from a falling load after the load fell off a forklift. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/11/10 | Nimaris Construction, Macungie, PA 18062 | Worker was performing site survey work and was backed over by a dozer/grader. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/12/10 | Newman & Company Inc., Philadelphia, PA 19135 | Worker was crushed by a paper hopper that was being loaded by a forklift. |
FY 2010 | 06/12/10 | 06/12/10 | Top Notch Cleaners, LLC., Valley, AL 36854 | Two workers were performing cleaning and buffing activities and were found dead. One worker was found with a dust mask over his mouth and the other worker was found in a hallway. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 05/27/10 | US Deer Antlers Export & Import, Los Angeles, CA, 90006 | Worker sustained head injuries after falling from an 8-foot ladder in store; died 9 days later. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 05/31/10 | Contemporary Homes of the Southwest, Inc., Rio Rancho, NM 87124 | Worker, framing a second-level addition on a home, died after falling about 10 feet. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/05/10 | Overdorf Mechanical, Inc., Punxsutawney, PA 15767 | Worker was conducting HVAC repairs and was working from a 6-foot ladder on the HVAC system above the ceiling tiles. He was found on the floor in an unresponsive state. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/08/10 | Camp Glen Arden Group, LLC, Tuxedo, NC 28784 | Worker on tractor pulling a loaded manure spreader was run over and pinned by the spreader when tractor and spreader became disengaged and rolled backwards. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/10/10 | Arbuckle Construction, Minneapolis, MN 55438 | Worker hanging sheetrock fell from ladder and struck head. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/11/10 | Rock Solid Security, Nashville, TN 37211 | Security guard on night duty, patrolling country music festival grounds during 100-degree weather, was found collapsed inside a medical tent that was closed for the night. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/13/10 | Clifford-Lee and Associates, Franklin, LA 70538 | Worker was placing a ladder to access a roof. The ladder contacted a power line and the worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/13/10 | Robert Koumarianos Plumbing, Sacramento, CA | Worker installing a gas line in the attic of a house collapsed from the heat. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/13/10 | Wiper Technologies, Inc., Milwaukee, WI 53223 | Worker was fabricating oil absorbent booms filled with raw cotton fibers that float on water to absorb and limit the spread of spilled oil. Worker was operating a pallet-wrapping machine, as well as placing finished oil absorbent booms on the pallets. W |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/14/10 | Blake Electric, Stockton, CA 95203 | Worker was electrocuted while working on a high voltage panel; was entrapped on the panel for one hour. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/14/10 | Coastal Flow Measurement, Inc., Mont Belvieu, TX 77580 | Worker was freeing a pump component under pressure and was impaled by the pump component. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/14/10 | McJunkin Red Man Company - Labarge, Hueytown, AL 35023 | Worker was loading a semi-flat bed trailer with 41-foot metal pipes with a weight of 5,000 pounds, and was struck by a pipe that rolled off of the truck. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/14/10 | Select Energy Services LLC dba Cactus Lease Services, Catarina, TX 78280 | Worker was loading pipe onto a flatbed trailer with a forklift. Worker was struck by a pipe and knocked off of the trailer bed. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/14/10 | U.S. Postal Service, Hayward, CA 94541 | Worker was found unresponsive in a trash dumpster. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Benes Heating and Air Conditioning Service, Inc., Raymond,NE 68428 | Worker was on a loft/balcony area and fell from the elevated area. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Delta Airlines, St. Paul International Airport, St. Paul, MN 55111 | Worker greasing gears in airport gate at night put head into gear door and was struck by door. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Memphis Light Gas and Water, Memphis, TN, 38103 | Worker was tearing down a transmission structure using a digger-derrick when a pole broke and struck him on the head. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | OCS Industries, Rock Tavern, NY 12575 | Worker was replacing structural roof panels and fell through the roof. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Rothamn Furniture Inc., O'Fallon, MO 63366 | Worker was retrieving a load of furniture from shelving with a stock picker. He was driving the stock picker backwards, the load snagged on the shelving and fell on top of the worker pinning him to the controls. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Southeastern Steel Buildings, Caddo, OK 74729 | Worker was engaged in cutting an 8,000-lb boiler in sections with a cutting torch. The section being cut, fell off allowing the remaining section, 5000 lbs., to flip over onto its bottom and land on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/15/10 | Whrad Silva Farms, Stockton, CA 95203 | Worker drowned after being pinned under a large grader that fell into a ditch/pond. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | AUI Inc, Alamillo, NM 87831 | Driver pulling a trailer with work materials lost control of the vehicle and collided with a tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | Bayou Concrete, Gulfport, MS 39501 | Worker was working under a truck fixing the brakes when the truck rolled onto the worker. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, NY 11554 | Worker was shot and killed by an off-duty corrections officer while outside hospital entrance on a break. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | NYCTA Division of Tracks, Forest Hills, NY 11375 | Worker inspecting a passenger train at night was found unconscious at end of shift. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | Stuart & Kim Sorenson Feed and Grain LLC., Zachow, WI 54182 | Worker was in a grain bin breaking loose bridged grain that was not flowing and was buried in the corn. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/16/10 | Temple-Inland, Inc., Rome, GA 30165 | Worker was working at an unstacker, went under a catwalk, and failed to lockout the equipment. Worker raised her arm up toward the roller and was caught and pulled into the roller. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/17/10 | Complete HVAC Plumbing and Electric, Inc., Fairfield, IL 62837 | Worker was running a lateral sewer line when the trench wall collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/17/10 | Crane Masters, Richmond, VA 23231 | Worker cleaning up a trainwreck died when crane brake failed and crane fell and crushed him . |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/17/10 | Lake Erie Construction Company, Canton, OH 44720 | Worker was working with a truck boom. The boom struck a power line and the worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/17/10 | PI & I Motor Express, Inc., Masury, OH 44438 | Worker was standing on top of a trailer load of pipes pulling the tarp up to cover the load. He fell over 10 feet from the top of the load, striking his head on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 06/19/10 | 06/17/10 | Tangent Rail Corporations, Alexandria, LA 71302 | Worker was found inside the plant on the side of a ditch with a four-wheeler on top of him. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 04/07/10 | Windward Sea Venture, League City, TX 77573 | Worker was cleaning out the bottom of yachts and was found floating near the pier. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/05/10 | Delta Window Cleaning Company, Inc., Orinda, CA 94563 | Worker elevated in an aerial boom lift was killed when lift made contact with 115 KV transmission line. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/16/10 | Robert Robinson, San Jose, CA 95682 | Worker suffered mass trauma to his body; cause was not known. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/17/10 | Virgin Islands Paving, St. Thomas, VI 00801 | Worker was struck by a car. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/18/10 | Omni Stone Masonry Inc, Ross, CA 94957 | Worker suffered critical head injury after falling from a scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/20/10 | Professional Facilities Management, Inc., Montgomery, AL 36116 | Worker died from an oxygen-deficient atmosphere. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/21/10 | Lewis Petro Properties, Inc., Encinal, TX 78019 | Worker was removing a frozen bolt from the track of a catepiller front end loader and was struck by a bolt that entered his forehead. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/22/10 | Beth Abraham Family of Health Services, Inc., Bronx, NY 10467-8108 | Worker died from an explosion. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/22/10 | Comcast of Georgia, Atlanta, GA 30331 | Worker was doing a cable connection, working on a ladder 20 feet up, became unresponsive and fell to the asphalt. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/22/10 | Garden City Tire, Garden City, KS 67846 | Worker was repairing tires on a front-end loader. Worker crawled under the loader with a bead bar to attempt to break the tire bead from the wheel rim. The equipment shifted and came off the jacks, crushing the worker under the rear of the loader. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/22/10 | Gleneagles Country Club, Plano, TX 75093 | Worker was riding in a golf cart after a housekeeping assignment, collapsed and fell out of a moving golf cart, striking her head on the concrete cart trail. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/23/10 | Joe Cook Logging, Lewiston, ID 83501 | Worker on the ground was struck by the boom of a tree delimber. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/23/10 | Rocke Overhead Doors Inc., Sullivan, IL 61951 | Worker was repairing an overhead door motor. He had removed the cover of the motor exposing the electrical components to replace a component. Worker leaned over the motor after replacing the component to make an adjustment to the chain, and began to shak |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/24/10 | AGCO Incorporated, Russell, KS 67665 | Two workers were off-loading trucks on the exterior of the grain elevator and two elevator grain tubes collapsed. Both workers were buried under structure debris. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/24/10 | Arbor Tech, Doyline, LA 71023 | Worker was cutting limbs from a tree and fell 50 feet. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/24/10 | Champion Communication, Philadelphia, PA 19107 | Worker was working on a TV dish from a roof, lost his balance, and fell 9 stories to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/24/10 | Maxwell Heating & Cooling, Inc., Carrollton, GA 30117 | Worker was installing an air conditioning unit. He was using a torch to sweat a pipe joint and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/25/10 | Preferred Transit aka Brinker Enterprises, Brooklyn, NY 11230 | Worker was struck by a load of wall panels that fell off his truck. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/25/10 | RG Installation, Longmont, CO 80504 | Worker was on a scaffold and the scaffold tipped over. Worker fell off and hit his head. |
FY 2010 | 06/26/10 | 06/26/10 | Berlin Industries, Inc., Carol Stream, IL 60188-9401 | Worker was found crushed in the paper baler. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 04/05/10 | Pipe Distributors, Ltd., Amelia, LA 70340 | Worker was loading pipe onto a truck and was struck by pipe. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/10/10 | Francisco Campos dba Paco Painting, Clayton, NC 27520 | Four workers were injured by electrical shock. One later died. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/13/10 | True Drilling LLC, Bonanza, UT 84008 | Worker was fatally struck in the head by the kelly bushing, which broke free during rig-up procedures. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/16/10 | Sabre Steel LLC, West Valley City, UT 84115 | Worker putting decking on roof joists was blown off roof by wind. He fell 17 feet and hit his head on a rock. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/22/10 | Tim Nicely dba Tim Nicely Construction, Bean Station, TN 37708 | Worker fell 14 feet to the ground from the roof decking on a 10/12 pitch residential roof. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/23/10 | EPNM Inc., Electrical Products Co., Albuquerque, NM 87102 | Worker died after falling to the ground when hydraulic ram elevating a telescoping ladder truck broke in half. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/24/10 | H. Schrier & Co., Inc., Brooklyn, NY 11234 | Worker fell out of a man lift. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/24/10 | Smith Roofing Company, Brownwood, TX 76801 | Worker was in the process of finishing a roofing contract and fell from the roof. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/25/10 | Thunder Valley Motocross, Morrison, CO 80401 | Worker was setting up a camera and fell 20 feet. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/25/10 | Wilcin Enterprises, Inc., Fort Myers, FL 33907 | Worker was cleaning out gutters and fell from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/26/10 | Reel Brothers Timbering, Lumberport, WV 26386 | Worker was felling a tree and was struck by another tree. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/27/10 | Texas Pack, Inc., Port Isabel, TX 78578 | Worker was performing maintenance on a forklift truck battery charger and contacted live electrical parts of the battery charger. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/28/10 | ABECO, Rochester, MN 55904 | Worker was crushed by a roller that tipped over. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/28/10 | Royal West Amusements Inc., West Valley City, UT 84120 | Worker died when his head was impaled by metal from the drive section of a Ferris wheel. The employee slipped after acknowledging he was clear and the wheel began to turn, trapping his head. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/28/10 | Trees Are Us, Mishawaka, IN 46545 | Tree trimmer struck in the head while walking under a tree on which employees were working; tree had been damaged by thunderstorms. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/29/10 | CBS, Inc., Weskan, KS 67662 | Worker was working on the elevator bin deck area and fell into grain bin. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/29/10 | Comcast, Broomall, PA 19008 | Worker was electrocuted after contacting a sagging 4000-volt power line. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/29/10 | Farm, San Joaquin County, CA 95321 | Worker got off tractor, which then began to move. Then he tried to get back on to stop tractor, slipped, and was run over by tractor and trailer. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/29/10 | Las Vegas Paving Corporation, North Las Vegas, NV 89032 | Worker was run over by a reversing loader which was moving dirt around a "pork chop" near an interstate entrance. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/29/10 | Securitas Security Services USA, St. Joseph, MO 64501-1738 | Worker was waving a truck to cross a railroad track and struck by the train rolling the truck over, pinning the worker under the truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/30/10 | Atlas Roofing, Harrison, TN 37341 | Worker apparently fell while stepping out of a cherry picker and onto a scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 06/30/10 | Clearwater Paper Corporation, Lewiston, ID 83501 | Worker was removing a jam from the back of the machine and fell onto the conveyor in the paper pulper. Worker drowned or was scalded. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 07/01/10 | LM Glasfiber Inc., Grand Forks, ND 58206 | Worker was working from a scissor lift removing a glass wagon and was struck by/crushed by an overhead gantry crane. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 07/01/10 | Priority Plastics Inc., North Las Vegas, NV 89030 | Temporary worker sustained a fatal crushing head injury when his head was caught between two moving parts while removing purge from a blow molding and conditioning machine. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 07/01/10 | Utility Lines Construction Services, Augusta, GA 30907 | Worker was working on a transformer came in contact with an energized 37 kV cable inside a transformer. |
FY 2010 | 07/03/10 | 07/03/10 | AT&T, Angleton, TX 71515 | Worker was found unresponsive. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 06/28/10 | Diamond Links, Inc., dba Diamond Links Golf Club, Catlettsburg, KY 41129 | Worker was operating a Bobcat machine while installing a culvert drain pipe. The worker was thrown from the seat when the machine slid off an embankment, and was killed when the machine rolled over him. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/01/10 | Larson Construction Company Inc., Independence, IA 50344 | Worker was assisting with the setting of tilt-up precast wall panels and was struck in the head by a falling pipe brace. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/02/10 | Grays Tree Service, Alabaster, AL 35007 | Worker was on top of a tree and was repelling down to make his cut, and hit the ground. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/02/10 | Keolohi Fishing Inc., Lahaina, HI 96761 | Worker was diving for black coral and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/03/10 | Western Kentucky Correctional Complex, Fredonia, KY 42411 | Worker was going to her car after work when she was struck by the vehicle of another worker pulling their truck out to leave. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/06/10 | Aerospace Manufacturing CT Systems LLC., Fredonia, KS 66736 | Worker had installed a new tool and was making a dry run. The tool flew out of the machine and struck the worker on the head. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/06/10 | Kolat Construction, Rices Landing, PA 15357 | Worker was working construction installing a swimming pool. Worker died from a heat stroke. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/07/10 | B & W Welding, Fremont, OH 43420 | Three workers were repairing two vertical support columns. During this activity the roof collapsed. One worker fatality and two workers were hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/07/10 | Hillside Manor Rehab and Extended Care Center LLC., Jamaica Estates, NY 11432 | Worker was struck by flying metal debris. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/07/10 | Latham Hi Tech Seeds, Alexander, IA 50420 | Worker fell from ladder while installing trim on the side of a warehouse (metal building). |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/07/10 | Marden Industries, Mulberry, FL 33860 | Worker was renovating a piece of farm equipment. A piece of the equipment fell and crushed him. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/07/10 | Marriott Austin, Austin, TX 78744 | Worker doing laundry work and became dizzy. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/08/10 | ABC Construction, Aurora, NE 68818 | Worker was attaching sheet metal screws on a pre-fabricated metal building and fell from a scissor lift or a forklift platform. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/08/10 | ACI Services, Englewood, CO 80110 | Worker was working on an oil and gas tank; the tank exploded. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/08/10 | Boyer's Nursery, Biglerville, PA 17303 | Work collapsed in the field from heat exhaustion. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/08/10 | CW Greenwood, Tallapoosa, GA 30176 | Worker was performing electrical wire replacement, placed electrical wire in mouth, then grabbed a metal scaffold. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/08/10 | Environmental Safety & Health Consulting Services, Freeport, TX 77542 | Worker was inside a 212-foot diameter tank cleaning out sludge when the air line to the respirator popped off; worker collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/09/10 | Buenavista Construction Inc., Disney's ESPN Wild World Sport, 700 S. Victory Way, Kissimmee, FL 34747 | Worker was working in a temporary transformer and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/09/10 | Cedar Homes Inc., dba All Affordable Tree Service, Flanders, NJ 07836 | Worker was struck on the head by a falling tree. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/09/10 | Halliburton Energy Services Inc., San Augustine, TX 75972 | Worker was found unresponsive in the lab. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/09/10 | Nabors Well Services, Lambert, MT 59243 | Worker was at the top of a four-tank group to gather readings and was found collapsed in the walkway. |
FY 2010 | 07/10/10 | 07/09/10 | Zartman Construction Inc., Northumberland, PA 17857 | Worker was working in a roof truss for a winery. The roof truss collapsed and the worker fell. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 06/07/10 | Professional Sales Services Inc., Wichita, KS 67213 | Worker was disassembling/disconnecting a vertical turning lathe and was struck by the 1200-pound head ram of the lathe. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 06/26/10 | Ironbound Enterprises LLP., dba Supreme Car Wash, Newark, NJ 07105 | Two workers were struck by a customer's car. One worker fatality and one worker was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/01/10 | J. Pacheco Landscaping, Westerly, RI 02891 | Worker was performing lawn care services and was struck by an oncoming car. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/06/10 | Sacramento Overnight Inc., Sacramento, CA 95811 | Truck driver sustained fatal injuries as a result of being involved in a three-vehicle accident with company truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/07/10 | Canoyer Country Greenhouse, dba Canoyer Garden Center, Papillion, NE 68133 | Worker was working on the roof of a greenhouse repairing a hole. Worker slipped and began to slide six feet down the roof until falling through the hole, landing on feet, then falling back, striking the ground with head. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/07/10 | City of Chicago Police Department, Chicago, IL 60636 | Police officer was finishing his shift when an individual walked up to him in his personal vehicle. The individual reached for the officer's service revolver and fired three shots at him, striking him in the head. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/07/10 | Premier Bakers, Inc. dba Fresh Start Bakeries North America, 141 East Palm Lane, Phoenix, AZ 85004 | Worker discovered by co-workers after falling from ladder. Died enroute to hospital. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/09/10 | Benham LLC, Naples, FL 34119 | Working was using a lawn mower, it flipped over pinning him beneath the water, and worker drowned. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/10/10 | Alcon Transport Inc., Los Angeles, CA 90021 | Worker was helping to hook up a trailer, when he was crushed by a truck backing into a dock. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/10/10 | Speedy Rooter Inc., North Sioux City, SD 57049 | Two workers were fixing a clogged sewer and were overcome by sewer gases. One worker fatality and one worker was hospitalized. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/10/10 | Vee-Jay Cement Contracting, Springfield, IL 62794 | Worker was setting anchor bolts into a 4-foot concrete-formed wall, collapsed, and fell backwards. Worker suffered from heat exposure. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/11/10 | Root Brothers Farm, Albion, NY 14411 | Worker was run over by a flatbed truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/12/10 | Boston University, Boston, MA 02218 | Worker was found on the floor with a mask on, connected to two hoses, one for air and the other for nitrogen. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/12/10 | Calvi Electric Company, Linwood, NJ 08221 | Worker was working on an energized electrical cabinet and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/12/10 | General Dynamics Ordinance and Tactical Systems, Carthage, MO 64839 | Worker was engaged in welding activities on an overhead air pollution control unit and was struck by a small piece of welding equipment/tool that fell from overhead. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/12/10 | Phoenix Stamping Group LLC, Atlanta, GA 30336 | Worker was on a scissor lift, stripping electrical wires, and was noticed lying on the floor of the bucket of the scissor lift. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/13/10 | Advance Pipe Bending & Fabricating Co., Huntington Park, CA 90255 | Worker fell from a pallet that was elevated eight feet above the ground by a forklift. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/13/10 | Reid Gardner Power Plant, Moapa, NV 89025 | Worker's left arm was amputated while working near a conveyor. Emergency assistance was called but the employee was pronounced dead at the scene. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/13/10 | Trinidad Drilling, Arlington, TX 76010 | Worker was in the process of rigging up the cable that was holding up the rig. The cart and the top drive track fell. The cart struck the worker. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/14/10 | Donaldson Enterprises Inc., Tallahassee, FL 32314 | Worker was changing a flat tire on a business trailer. Worker was jacking up the trailer and the trailer fell onto the worker. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/14/10 | Porter Cattle Co., Admire, KS 66830 | Worker was in the process of moving between cattle pastures. Worker got out of the truck to open the gate and was struck by the truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/14/10 | Shelley and Sands, Columbus, OH 43215 | Worker was working on the roadway, milling a joint in front of a bridge, and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/14/10 | Simcals Inc., Mount Miegs, AL 36057 | Worker was doing electrical work on an overhead crane and was standing on the bridge of the crane by the control motors. Worker either had an electrical shock or a heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/14/10 | Unknown, Blackfoot, ID 83221 | Worker was performing weed abatement using an all-terrain vehicle and was found on his back with the vehicle across his chest. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/15/10 | Bruce J. Koerner Crane & Equipment Inc., Rockaway, NJ 07866 | Worker was working on the ground, contacted an energized wrecking ball, and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/15/10 | Dansville Hauling Corporation, Forestville, MD 20747 | Worker stepped out of driver's door of dump truck and was struck by another dump truck that was backing up within the lane closure. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/15/10 | MP Technologies, Bellville, TX 77418 | Worker was installing a new wire for a 72 kV transmission line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/17/10 | 07/16/10 | Westerchil Construction, Alexandria, LA 71301 | Worker was cleaning up the jobsite by picking up lumber and other debris. He was seen lying on the ground unconscious, possible heat stroke. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 04/22/10 | Tactical Cleaning, Commerce City, CO 80022 | Worker was cleaning the inside of a rail car that previously had gas inside. A flash fire occurred and worker was burned. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 05/24/10 | Phillips Construction, Pewaukee, WI 53072 | Worker was preparing and pouring a concrete patio. Worker began to show signs of heat exhaustion/heat stress, lost consciousness. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/04/10 | Whitestar Development Corporation, Niagara Falls, NY 14303 | Worker fell into a compactor and was crushed. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/12/10 | Streb Construction Co. Inc., Iowa City, IA 52244 | Worker was run over by a dump truck while working as a laborer on a road construction project. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/13/10 | TMK/IPSCO, Camanche, IA 52730 | Truck driver was strapping down steel coils on his trailer when one of the coils fell off the truck and struck him. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/15/10 | Randy Clanton Farms Inc., Hermitage, AR 71647 | Worker was removing stakes and strings from the fields, and collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/16/10 | Platinum Property Management, Ft. Myers Beach, FL 33931 | Worker was standing on a ladder performing tree trimming and fell from the ladder. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/17/10 | C & C Transload LLC, Tyler, TX 75702 | Worker was transferring sand from a rail car into a truck using a conveyor belt loading machine. Fell onto the rotating conveyor belt and was caught inside the machine. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/18/10 | Sunnybrook Golf Club, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 | Worker fell off the back of a golf cart, hitting his head. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/19/10 | CR&R Inc., Stanton, CA 90680 | Worker was adjusting an hydraulic front-end bucket with a clamping device on a truck, when he was crushed between the bucket and clamping arm. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/19/10 | Reclamation Sciences, LLC, Phoenix, AZ 85212 | Worker was crushed between the boom of the backhoe and the stabilizer (outrigger) leg. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/19/10 | Sohnrey Farms, Chico, CA 95928 | Worker shooting squirrels was killed when hit by a falling limb. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/20/10 | Newmar Corporation, Nappanee, IN 46550 | Worker riding in the back of a pickup truck fell out of the truck and hit his head when the truck hit a bump. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/21/10 | Accelerated Courier Inc., Bensenville, IL 60106 | Worker was loading a truck and passed out. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/21/10 | AEE Tecnica de Cayey, Cayey, PR 00737 | Worker was servicing a utility pole to restore service to clients, came in contact with the energized part of an electric transmission line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/21/10 | Conco Concrete Specialists, Whiteriver, AZ 85941 | Worker fell into a blocklayers mortar mixer and was killed by revolving paddles. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/22/10 | Arnolds Masonry Construction, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 | Worker was climbing down from a scaffold to get water and fell from the scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/22/10 | DOD Directorate of Logistics, Fort Hood, TX 76544 | Worker was working under a forklift. The front being supported by two jackstands. He was removing a hydraulic cylinder, it fell on his hand. The jackstands became dislodged and the forklift fell on the worker, crushing his head and chest. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/22/10 | Horsehead Corporation, Monaca, PA 15061 | There was an explosion in B column. Two worker fatalities. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/22/10 | Nichols Construction Company, Welch, WV 24801 | Worker was working to install a fiberoptic line and became unconcious, possible heat stress. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/23/10 | Northeast Energy Management Inc., Cheswick, PA 15024 | Two workers were in the process of performing arc welding on a oil tank that contained 85 barrels of crude oil. The tank exploded. The workers were blown up to 60 feet from the pad of the oil tank, receiving fatal burns. |
FY 2010 | 07/24/10 | 07/23/10 | Tennessee Steel Haulers, Dupo, IL 62239 | Worker was standing by a flatbed trailer during loading operations and material rolled from the trailer, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/17/10 | Milton Heard, Baltimore, MD 21218 | Worker trapped in trench up to his waist, was struck in the head. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/19/10 | Brazeway, Inc., Hopkinsville, KY 42240 | Worker suffered an electric shock while operating a resistance welder. Hospitalized after injury, and died five days later. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/20/10 | Buck Creek Freight Inc., Lusk, WY 82225 | Worker was struck in the head when a pipe rack on an oil drilling rig failed/collapsed. At the time of the failure the employee was positioned under a portion of one of the support members for the pipe racks. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/20/10 | Northeast Services, dba Horton Tree Services, Arlington, TX 76012 | Worker was in bucket truck performing tree trimming services and fell 15 feet, hitting his head. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/20/10 | Southwest Kidney-DaVita Dialysis Partners, LLC, Phoenix, AZ 85004 | Worker became stuck in top opening of a 37-inch deep mixing tank. Was found unresponsive with head and torso in the tank. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/22/10 | Mike Pihl Logging Company Inc., Vernonia, OR 97064 | Worker drove off an embankment while driving a loaded log truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/22/10 | Sevier Solid Waste Board Inc., Pigeon Forge, TN 38763 | Worker was found crushed in a digester tube at a compost facility. Worker had previously been reported missing, and was found after a three-day search. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/22/10 | Universal Linen Service LLC, Louisville, KY 40208 | Worker was crushed when caught between an automatic laundry hopper on a shuttle conveyor and an industrial washing machine. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/23/10 | Utili-Comm South, Inc., Terre Haute, IN 47802 | Worker doing cable installation fell off ladder to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/25/10 | Guardsmark LLC, Lima, OH 45804 | Worker was using a powered vehicle conducting a routine security inspection. The vehicle rolled over, pinning the worker. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | Anson Mechanical Services, Inc., Polkton, NC 28135 | Worker electrocuted while working on a residential air conditioning unit. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | APC Paper Co., Claremont, NH 03473 | Worker was feeding paper to a paper reel winder, his hand got caught and he was pulled through, receiving crushing injuries. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | Larry Flint's Hustler Erotic Ultra Club, Las Vegas, NV 89118 | Worker was replacing a tire on a skid steer loader when he was crushed between the bucket assembly and the main frame of the loader. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | Noe Barrillas & Jorge Barillas dba Barillas Drywall, Chattanooga, TN 37450 | Worker, sanding the ceiling of a breezeway, fell approximately 30 feet from a third floor landing to the floor below. There were no guardrails in place, and the employee was not wearing fall protection at the time of the accident. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | Terik Roofing, Circleville, OH 43113 | Worker was using a forklift to move a small dumpster to a larger dumpster. He got off the lift to adjust the dumpster and did not lower the lift or turn it off. The lift moved forward and crushed him. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/26/10 | Transystems Corp., Independence, KS 67301 | Worker was taking samples at a new road construction job-site and was struck by a dump truck or asphalt truck. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/27/10 | Crisp & Crisp, Inc., Robbinsville, NC 28771 | Worker was struck in the head by a metal pulley being used to drag fallen trees, when the nylon strap to which it was connected broke. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/27/10 | SCUBA Bob, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814 | Worker was retrieving golf balls and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/28/10 | Haasbach LLC, Mt. Carroll, IL 61053 | Worker was engulfed in corn. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/28/10 | Solar Testing Labs Inc., Richfield, OH 44286 | Worker was performing paving work activities outside the established work zone and was struck by a passenger motor vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/28/10 | Sure Heet Chimney Repair & Cleaning Co., Inc., New York, NY 10030 | Worker was ascending to the roof and fell from the ladder. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/29/10 | ABBTS, Inc., Baltimore, MD 21093 | Worker struck in the head after a dead tree being cut down, fell on top of another tree, which fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/29/10 | Paul McGrath Contracting, Los Angelas, CA 90272 | Worker was buried in 11 feet of soil after a trench collapsed during the connection of piping for installation of a trench drain. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/29/10 | Sturgeon Services International, Bakersfield, CA 93308 | One worker was killed and another was injured after falling 20 feet when a scissor lift being used to attach a sling to an unsecured beam was knocked over when the beam tipped. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/30/10 | AmerCable Inc., El Dorado, AR 71730 | Worker was performing electrical testing and sustained injuries. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/30/10 | Kinney Contractors Inc., Greenup, IL 62428 | Worker was collecting TTC signs and was struck by a tractor trailer. |
FY 2010 | 07/31/10 | 07/30/10 | Nagera Construction, Coldwater, MS 38618 | Worker was operating an extended boom forklift to set roof trusses. He was driving on a sloped surface when the truss he was carrying dug into the ground. Worker raised the boom to get the truss out of the ground and the forklift became unstable. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/03/10 | Town of Shelton Police Department, Shelton, CT 06484 | A police officer was struck and killed by a vehicle while performing traffic control at a fireworks event. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/12/10 | JJ Ferguson, Greenwood, MS 38930-0660 | Worker was constructing a bridge and fell. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/20/10 | Pryer's Topnotch Tree Service, Inc., Illiopolis, IL 62539 | Worker was performing tree removal services and was standing on top of his bucket truck waiting to winch some logs. Worker fell off the truck to the ground between some logs. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/24/10 | City of Bridgeport Fire Department, Bridgeport, CT 06605 | Two Bridgeport firefighters died in a house fire on the third floor on 7/24/2010. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/26/10 | Your Preferred Real Estate, West Pointem CA 95255 | Worker suffered brain injury after tripping over phone cord that got wrapped around his leg during a phone call and falling on right side. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/30/10 | Blossman Gas Of North Carolina, Waynesville, NC 28786 | Worker was delivering liquid propane to a residence when he was struck by a 500-gallon aboveground tank that dislodged and rolled on top of the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/30/10 | Crowley Puerto Rico Services, Inc., San Juan, PR 00902 | Worker was in a roll-on roll-off (RO/RO) operation and was struck by an intermodal container. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/30/10 | J & L Spray, Los Angelos, CA 90011 | Worker was electrocuted after making contact with a truck that had a fallen powerline on it. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/31/10 | Augie Gonzalez Tree Trimming, Brentwood, CA 90049 | Worker electrocuted after making contact with power lines while trimming trees. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 07/31/10 | USPS, Redlands, CA 92373 | Worker was unloading a metal crate from a truck inside a loading dock when metal crate door unexpectantly opened. Suffered fatal crushing injuries. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/01/10 | Cardinal Building Systems, Inc., Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 | Worker was performing steel erection and fell. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/02/10 | DCD Construction, Inc., Moss Point, MS 39563 | Worker was constructing curb and gutter work in preparation for a concrete pour. Worker was found later, collapsed; hyperthermia was listed as cause of death. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/03/10 | Hardwood Tree Service Corp., River Edge, NJ 07661 | Worker fell 35 feet from a tree. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/03/10 | Hartford Distributors, Inc., Manchester, CT 06040 | Workplace violence; shots were fired, nine workers were killed. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/03/10 | Mackaben Excavating, LLC, Spearfish, SD 57783 | Worker was working in an excavation and the trench wall caved in on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/03/10 | Robert Boitnott Painting, Jackson, MO 63755 | Worker was in an aerial lift and made contact with an electrical wire. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | ABC Professional Tree Services, Vidor, TX 77662 | Worker was piling up tree limbs and said he wasn't feeling well. He sat under a tree and slumped over, possible heat stroke/medical condition. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | Creative Masonry, Johnstown, OH 43031 | Two workers were working in a building that collapsed from high winds. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | George Ruiz dba American Mobile Home Services, Brownsville, TX 78521 | Worker was working on a double-wide mobile home. The jack failed and the mobile home shifted, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | Hofmann Construction, Inc., Edgerton, OH 43517 | Worker was struck by a interior block wall. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | Jack Gibson Construction Company, Brookville, PA 15825 | Worker was crushed by a concrete form. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | Northwest Cable Construction, Oshkosh, WI 54901 | Worker was working in a trench and the trench collapsed, burying the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | Premier Timber Products, Inc., Moscow, TX 75960 | Worker was complaining of being hot and was later found unresponsive. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/04/10 | The Nexus Group, Tullahoma, TN 37388 | Worker was electrocuted after making contact with a 7200 volt electric line while installing fiberoptic cable. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/05/10 | B Trenchless, Avon, CO 81620 | Worker was operating a boring auger machine that was located at the bottom of a trench and was struck by the boring auger machine. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/05/10 | Riverside Contracting, Inc., Deer Lodge, MT 59756 | Crew was using a bottom (belly) dump to lay a window of hot asphalt. Worker was bent over with his back to the approaching belly dump and was struck and crushed by the wheels of the loaded belly dump. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/05/10 | US Dept. of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, White Sulphur Spgs, MT 59645 | Worker was riding an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), and taking soil samples. The ATV crested the top of a ditch, struck a boulder and overturned. ATV landed on top of the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/06/10 | CB Richard Ellis, Cleveland, OH 44112 | Worker was troubleshooting a humidity problem and fell from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/06/10 | Davenport Transportation Inc., Newton, NC 28658 | Worker was reconnecting a trailer section that had come loose and was struck by another semi truck. |
FY 2010 | 08/07/10 | 08/06/10 | Grace Utility, LLC, Houston, TX 77040 | Worker collapsed after exiting a manhole. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 07/01/10 | West Texas Oilfield Trucking, Odessa, TX 79766 | Worker was using a broom handle to push ground wire into the live wire and caused an arch electrocution. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 07/12/10 | Streb Construction Co. Inc., Iowa City, IA 52244 | Worker run over by a dump truck while working as a laborer on a road construction project. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 07/15/10 | Georgia Power Company, Alpharetta, GA 30009 | Worker was working from a bucket in the process of removing a utility pole. An auger was being used to widen the hole and remove the dirt. The auger hit a gas line and exploded, burning the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/05/10 | Ward Trucking Co., LLC., West Chester, PA 19380 | Worker was unloading a skid, lost control, fell and hit his head on the ground. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/06/10 | Sunstreet Mortgage, LLC., Tucson, AZ 85718 | Worker fell and hit his head while trying to climb over a partition wall to gain entry into a locked adjoining office. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/07/10 | City of Wyoming Police Department, Wyoming, IL 61491 | Worker (Police Chief) involved in a motor vehicle accident with civilian driver. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/07/10 | Inket Fisheries, Fort Pierce, FL 39496 | Worker was traveling in a boat and struck an intracoastal channel marker. He was ejected from the boat and struck the pylon head first. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/08/10 | North Central Power, Winter, WI 54862 | Worker was repairing a 7200-volt, two-strand, electric distribution line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/08/10 | Ralph's Machine Shop, Delano, CA 93215 | Worker fell through roof of his business while attempting to fix an air conditioner. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | Alan Blackman, Griffin, GA 30224 | Worker was working on a roof of a fire-damaged building. He was on a ladder and slipped, falling from the upper roof to a lower roof, then to the asphalt 20 feet below. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | Bootz Industry, Evansville, IN 47712 | Worker was operating a forklift when he hit a curb, becoming pinned under overturned forklift. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | California Baptist University, Riverside, CA 92504 | Worker killed in vehicle accident en route to Mammoth, CA. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | City of Chicago Fire Department, Chicago, IL 60601 | Worker fell from an iron rung ladder at the top of a 4-story building while carrying equipment up the ladder. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | Hentges Arborist Group Inc., Fulton, MO 65251 | Worker contacted a power line and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | Innovative Mattress Solutions LLC., Avon Lake, OH 44012 | Worker was unloading mattresses and box springs and was stung by a bee. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/09/10 | W.F. Wilson & Sons, Inc., Laurel, MD 20723 | Worker was struck by the counterweight and revolving superstructure of an excavator when he walked between the excavator and a hillside. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/10/10 | Acne Barricades, K.C., Jacksonville, FL 32221 | Worker was underneath an attenuator truck releasing the cushing bed. He released the bed and it fell on him, crushing him. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/10/10 | Clarence Welti Associates, Inc., Waterbury, CT 06708 | A drill rig lost footing and rolled down a hill, landing on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/10/10 | Clements Dean Building Company, LLC., Talladega, AL 35160 | Worker was removing a roof that was under renovation and fell through a section of galvanized sheet metal, 35 feet to the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/10/10 | Village of Cowden Police Department, Cowden, IL 62422 | Worker (police officer) died of injuries suffered after losing control of a police car which overturned during a chase, ejecting the officer. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/11/10 | Rocky Plumbing, Alvin, TX 77511 | Worker was working 10 feet below street level, cleaning dirt from a newly installed culvert, when the worker fainted. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/11/10 | Sherwin-Williams - Store 1902, Richmond, KY 40475 | Worker sustained fatal injuries after company truck, which worker was driving, was struck by an oncoming train. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/11/10 | WATCO, North Kansas City, MO 64116 | Worker was found slumped over against building. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/12/10 | Burke Repo Outlet, North Webster, IN 46555 | Worker was test-driving a cycle for a customer when he received fatal injuries from a traffic accident. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/12/10 | Superior Boiler Works Inc., Hutchinson, KS 67504 | Worker was sandblasting a metal plate. The plate fell over and crushed him. |
FY 2010 | 08/14/10 | 08/13/10 | Superior Coating VL, Farmersville, TX 75442 | Worker fell 160 feet from water tower. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 02/03/10 | General Plumbing, Inc., Waddell, AZ 85355 | Plumber fell 20 feet through a ceiling to the floor below. Sustained abdominal injuries and severe fractures; died 6 months later, never fully recovering from injuries. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 02/21/10 | Henson Robinson Company, Mossville, IL 61552 | Worker was performing roofing activities and fell 40 feet to the concrete surface below. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 06/16/10 | Smeller Machine, Highland Heights, OH 44143 | Worker was working on a machine which was supported on the forks of a fork truck. The machine shifted and fell off the fixture which was supporting the machine on the forks. The machine fell on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 07/16/10 | Plumb-Air Plumbing Inc., Walnut Cove, NC 27052 | Worker was electrocuted while working underneath a residential home performing plumbing work. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 07/20/10 | Stolt Tank Containers, Channelview, TX 77530 | Worker was cleaning the tank of a diesel truck and was on top the tank car replacing a cap and fell from a height of more than 10 feet. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/04/10 | Boral Bricks, Inc., Marshall, TX 75670 | Worker collapsed with seizures. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/11/10 | Pioneer Contracting Co. Inc., Baltimore, MD 21224 | Two workers were walking on ramp of interstate, when one of the workers tried to cross/step over the jersey wall and fell 23 feet onto two concrete pipes. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/13/10 | Homestead Property, Columbus, OH 43215 | Worker was refurbishing a house and fell from a porch, down four steps onto cement. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/13/10 | Pack's Inc., Morehead, KY 40351 | Worker was electrocuted while installing a drop pole in an office cubicle in a state office building. Worker was wiring the whip for the power pole when the pole was energized. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/13/10 | QuadGraphics, Dickson, TN 37055 | Worker was seriously burned after becoming doused in solvent while operating a forklift near a solvent line. Employee left forklift to cut off solvent supply. Solvent ignited while en route to safety shower. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/16/10 | Michael Jefferys, Washington, DC 20001 | Worker was performing exterior painting and fell 20 feet out of a manlift. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/16/10 | Scarborough Construction Inc., Grand Island, NE 68801 | Worker was working from a manlift. He was working below power lines and raised the bucket of the aerial lift into the power lines where his forehead contacted the power lines. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/16/10 | Self Service, Inc. dba A&H Logging, Stouts Mills, WV 26439 | Worker was felling a tree manually using a chain saw and was struck on the head by a limb from the tree. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/16/10 | Super Mix of Wisconsin Inc., Kenosha, WI 53144 | Worker was caught between rotating drum and loading hopper of a ready-mix truck. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/18/10 | General Mills Inc., Albuquerque, NM 87113 | Worker fell from catwalk or scaffold. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/18/10 | Post Buckley Schuh and Hernigan Inc., Jourdanton, TX 78026 | Worker was found unconscious; probable heat stroke. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | American Wrecking Inc., South El Monte, CA 91733 | Worker was run over by a co-worker at a job site. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | APM Terminals, La Porte, TX 77571 | Worker was standing behind his semi-tractor rig and attached chassis and was pinned against the chassis attached to his truck by another rig and chassis. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | Facilities Solutions Group, LLC., Austin, TX 78754 | Worker was lying down near a location where a job meeting was to be held; worker was non-responsive. Suspected heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | Ruppels Plumbing & Heating, Fort Morgan, CO 80701 | Worker was performing solder work to repair a hot water heater leak and dropped burning solder onto the floor causing an explosion to occur. Worker ran out of the house with severe burns. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | United Personnel, South Deerfield, MA 01373 | Worker was elevated 25 feet in the air on a high-lift rider truck. The truck was knocked over by a second fork truck and the worker struck his head on concrete. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/19/10 | Valley Pools, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 | Reported as an electrocution; however, there is dispute about whether or not worker was electrocuted or became entangled in cord that fell in pool. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/20/10 | Ricks Auto Repair, Barboursville, WV 25504 | Worker was working underneath a vehicle. The vehicle fell off the jack stands that were supporting it, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/21/10 | 08/20/10 | Stock Building Supply, Elkins, AR 72727 | Worker was found pinned under the mast of an overturned 3-wheel powered industrial truck. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 06/24/10 | Rocky Mountain Welding & Fabricating, Pleasant Grove, UT 84062 | Worker struck in head from material falling from crane while fabricating tank in bender. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 07/29/10 | All Hours Plumbing, Albuquerque, NM 87123 | A plumber was electrocuted while performing repairs under a home. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/13/10 | Grannis Construction, Detroit Lakes, MN 56505 | Worker fell from catwalk while removing a hopper on a silo. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/16/10 | Platt Hill Nursery Inc., Bloomingdale, IL 60108 | Worker was eating lunch and swallowed a bee. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/18/10 | Delta Air Lines, Inc., Dept. 025, Atlanta, GA 30320 | Worker was operating a baggage tug and was ejected. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/18/10 | Tom's Tire and Lube, Bronte, TX 76933 | Worker was inflating a mounted semi-trailer tire and was struck on the crown of the head by the exploding tire. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/19/10 | Humboldt Redwood Co/ Grove Construction, Scotia, CA 95565 | Worker sustained fatal injuries after becoming pinned under a tree. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/19/10 | Nashville Electric Services, Nashville, TN 37246 | Worker electrocuted after making contact with live wire while moving lives from an old pole to a new one. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/19/10 | Sam Mazzola, Columbia Station, OH 44028 | Worker was attacked by a bear that he was feeding/training. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/20/10 | Amberling Companies Inc., Youngstown, OH 44512 | Worker was working on a security light and fell from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/20/10 | PG&E, Tuolumne, CA 95379 | Worker was setting up a truck to auger a hole for a power pole. While raising the drill, boom made contact with 17 KV overhead power line. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/20/10 | Western Sales, Bunker Hill, KS 67626 | Worker was performing salvage operations of an oil field tank battery following an explosion from a lightning strike. During the salvage operations, there was hissing noise followed by an explosion, fatally injuring the worker. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/21/10 | Genesis Wireless, Braham, MN 55006 | Worker sustained fatal injuries after being struck in the head as a 4-wheel crane, which worker was in the back of, fell over while erecting a cell tower. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | Bechel Brothers Inc., Blair, WI 54616 | Worker was unloading products from a truck. While working from the top of the truck, fell and cracked head open. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | Foltz Welding Ltd., Vernon, IL 62892 | Worker was struck on the head by a pipe that was being moved. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | Marzetti Co., Columbus, OH 43213 | Worker was struck by a forklift and hit into a compressor. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | Moen Steel Erection, Sioux Falls, SD 57104 | Worker was connecting a 36-foot steel beam to imbeds on a poured concrete wall. The beam was being held by two clips. The worker was sitting on top of the wall, the clips failed and the beam fell pullling the worker off the wall. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | R.L. Brink Corp., Rushville, IL 62681 | Worker was engaged in road work and was struck by a vehicle. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/23/10 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Bartlett, IL 60103 | Research assistant hit by train while studying the effects of the forest preserve on the surrounding wildlife. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | Chicago Architectural Metals Inc., Chicago, IL 60611 | Worker climbed over a guardrail and fell through a floor hole. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | Goodmen Treemen, Westlake, OH 44145 | Worker was cutting down wind damaged trees and a 60-foot tall tree fell on him. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | HMHS International, Inc., Kansas City, MO 64131 | Worker was moving a large metal shelving unit and drove one wheel of the powered industrial truck off the edge of the dock platform. Worker attempted to jump clear as the truck began to fall and struck and pinned to the concrete surface by the protective cage of the truck. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | JMF Company, Bettendorf, IA 52732 | Worker crushed to death by a load of copper tubing after losing his balance when load came off the hook as it was being loaded on a flat bed semi. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | Robert Cobb Inc., Bessemer, AL 35020 | Worker was part of a litter crew that was working along a roadway and was struck by a car. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | Spray Polyurethane Foam, El Paso, TX 79927 | Worker was applying acrylic roof coating on a building roof and the section of the roof gave way due to corrosion. Worker fell through the roof and landed on a concrete surface 30 feet below. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/24/10 | Steve Wills Trucking & Logging, CA | Worker sustained fatal injuries after being hit by a log that became unsecured. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/25/10 | Adam Tree Service, Inc., Greenwood, CO 80121 | Worker was working in an aerial lift on a boom truck. The boom snapped in half and the worker fell with the boom. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/25/10 | Airmech, Inc., Murrieta, CA 92563 | Worker crushed to death after getting pinned in a roll-up door that was closing. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/26/10 | Mike Davis Concrete, Arlington, TX 76001 | Worker was laying concrete and collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/26/10 | Simplex Grinnell LP., Akron, OH 44333 | Worker was re-locating sprinkler heads, working from a 10-foot step ladder, and fell four to six feet to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/27/10 | Americold Logistics LLC., Russellville, AR 72802 | Worker was using a stand up forklift to pull an order of frozen chicken from a 5 tier rack with 3 pallets per location. Worker was found on the floor covered with bags and cases of frozen chicken. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/27/10 | Hillsdale Elevator Company, Geneseo, IL 61254 | Worker was unclogging auger openings in a grain bin. The grain that was caked on the walls fell on the worker, engulfing him. |
FY 2010 | 08/28/10 | 08/28/10 | Griffin's Waste Services, Inc., Indianola, MS 38751 | Worker was caught between a waste collection truck and a trash bin. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 07/05/10 | Skyline Produce LLC, Hatch, NM 87937 | Worker was riding a pallet on the forks of an industrial truck when his foot was caught between the pallet and stationary object. Worker died of a reported embolism at a medical facility. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/13/10 | Good Shepherd Medical Center dba Champion EMS, White Oak, TX 75693 | Worker was found sleeping at the ambulance station, carbon monoxide poisoning. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/13/10 | Prestonwood Baptist Church, The Colony, TX 75056 | Worker was assembling industrial racks and fell five feet to the ground below, striking his head on the concrete floor. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/24/10 | PR Management Corp. dba Panera Bread, Bedford, NH 03110 | Worker slipped in the kitchen area. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/26/10 | Chapparl Energy, Clinton, OK 73601 | Worker was running electrical lines through metal conduit and collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/26/10 | D.R. Mozeley, Inc., Charlotte, NC 28216 | Worker was run over by co-worker while making grade measures. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/26/10 | Sonoco Recycling, Inc., Salisbury, NC 28144 | Worker suffered fatal injuries after getting caught between forklift mast and 1600 lbs of baled cardboard. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/26/10 | Timber Roof Service, Gualala, CA 95445 | Tree service worker suffered fatal injuries after falling 63 feet from a tree and landing on previously cut limbs and branches. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/27/10 | DJE Leasing, Inc., Phoenix, AZ 85043 | Worker was fatally injured after getting caught in between while connecting a second trailer to a lead trailer. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/27/10 | Kansas City Southern Railroad, Port Arthur, TX 77640 | Worker was found near an electrical enclosure, unresponsive. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/29/10 | Sorey Tire, Inc., Forest, MS 39074 | Worker was installing a tire on a truck. The tire exploded, striking the worker. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/30/10 | Complete Land Sculpture, Dallas, TX 75220 | Worker was performing maintenance work on a water pump and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/30/10 | Stebbins Engineering, Watertown, NY 13601 | Worker was hung by a safety strap while working on an extended boom lift, after the boom snapped. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/31/10 | BEJT, LLC., Paterson, NJ 07522 | Worker was crushed by an industrial truck that fell on him. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/31/10 | Nemeth Contracting, White Oak, PA 15131 | Worker was standing on the edge of the roof and fell 60 feet. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 08/31/10 | Rick's Electric, Burwell, NE 68823 | Worker was tracing an electrical short and contact was made with the live circuit. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/01/10 | Allens Air Conditioning. Phoenix, AZ 85008 | Worker was electrocuted after making contact with a 110-volt doorbell transformer while performing A/C service. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/01/10 | Dominos Pizza, Hyde Park, MA 02136 | Worker was stabbed and murdered at delivery site. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/01/10 | J & E Electric, Murfeesboro, TN 37128 | Worker was electrocuted after cutting into an energized electric line while working in the attic of a residence. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/01/10 | Transworld Plastics Films, Inc., Rochelle, IL 61068 | Worker was operating a machine and was pulled through the machine. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/02/10 | J.D. Parker & Sons Co., Inc., New Port Richey, FL 34652 | Worker was run over by truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/02/10 | Yecta Inc. dba Morningside Plumbers, Inglewood, CA 90302 | Worker suffered fatal injuries (burns) consistent with electrocution while working 35 to 40 feet into a crawl space while attempting to repair water heater. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/03/10 | Back Nine Club, LLC, Lakeville, MA 02747 | Worker was operating a riding lawn mower. The lawn mower went into a pond, pinning the worker under it. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/03/10 | Embry Shaw dba 220 Electric Inc., Hammond, LA 70401 | Worker was in the process of installing a backup generator and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/04/10 | 09/03/10 | Tridelta Systems, LLC, Graceville, FL 32440 | Worker was performing welding repairs on the log selector gate and was crushed by the gate. The equipment was not properly locked and tagged out for maintenance. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 08/27/10 | Gallo's Nursery, Hacienda Heights, CA 91745 | Worker received fatal head injuries while loading a tractor on a trailer for hauling. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/02/10 | Knochel Bros, Inc., Phoenix, AZ 85024 | Worker received fatal injuries after being run over by a road grader. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/03/10 | D & D Westlake, Fresno, CA 93650 | Worker had been cleaning out a trench to install sprinkler lines and was later found unresponsive. Death under investigation. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/03/10 | MN Power, Duluth, MN 55802 | Worker was found unresponsive after taking pictures at a new maintenance building. Electrical burns found on body during autopsy. Possible electrocution. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/04/10 | Everett Acres, Inc., Princeton, FL 33032 | Worker's tractor rolled into a canal. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/06/10 | Neighbor Well Service, Duson, LA 70529 | Worker was performing maintenance on a rig. The rig's floor came down, striking the worker on the head. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/06/10 | Ringo Drilling 1, L.P. Rig #18, Ozona, TX 76943 | Worker was installing a drain pipe to a tank and collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative, Inc., Luling, TX 78648 | Worker was removing a large tree that caused outages. Worker was in the bucket and made contact with a live line at shoulder or hand. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Iron Industries, Hanford, CA 93230 | Worker received fatal injuries from equipment roll-over while trying to set a beam on top of small building. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Lauderhill Ten Management Corporation, Inc., Lauderhill, FL 33313 | Worker was operating a mower and mowing grass near a canal. The lawn mower rolled into the canal, worker drowned. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Lonesome Dove Concrete Pumping, Great Falls, MT 59404 | Worker was caught between two trucks and crushed. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Oakley Missouri, Inc., Hayti, MO 63851 | Worker was greasing the bearings on a conveyor and fell 50 feet from a catwalk. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/07/10 | Unknown Contractor, Risingsun, OH 43467 | Worker was pulled into a tree chipper machine. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/08/10 | New Coat Sealing, LLC., Robinson, IL 62454 | Worker was flagging traffic and was struck by a truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/08/10 | Woodwork Manufacturing & Supply, Hutchinson, KS 67501-5373 | Worker discovered a fire in a sawdust collection system and attempted to extinguish the fire by opening the dump doors on the bottom of the sawdust collector and a flash fire occurred, enveloping the worker in flames/burning sawdust. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/09/10 | American Suncraft Indian Heights, Kokomo, IN 46901 | Worker was working on a water tower when he fell resulting in fatal injuries. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/09/10 | Skanska-Koch, Brooklyn, NY 11211 | Worker was pinned by aerial lift and beam. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/09/10 | Westscapes, Inc., Hanford, CA 93230 | Worker collapsed after unloading 11-gallon plants and 15-gallon trees from truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/09/10 | Yakama Forest Products, White Swan, WA 98952 | Worker was working on a planer and was pinned by the door used to access the cutting heads. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/10/10 | Ralph Surles Company, Jacksboro, TX 76458 | Worker was in the process of assembling a steel double billboard. One billboard fell onto another, pinning the worker between the signs. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/11/10 | Gorski Trash Removal, Inc., Penns Park, PA 18943 | Worker was performing maintenance on the back of a trash truck. The support gave way and the tailgate came down on the worker. |
FY 2010 | 09/11/10 | 09/11/10 | Industrial Piping, LLC, Pryor, OK 74361 | Worker was working from an elevated platform and was descending a ladder from the platform. Worker was found later hanging in his harness. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 08/17/10 | Scott Walston Construction, Visalia, CA 93279 | Worker suffered fatal head injuries after falling 10 feet from a ladder while climbing to retrieve some material. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 08/26/10 | Jack Crump Tree & Moving Service, Pilot Mountain, NC 27041 | Worker was electrocuted after making contact with an overhead power line while securing a de-limbed tree from a boom truck basket. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 08/30/10 | Swanson Glass Inc., Iowa City, IA 52242 | Worker suffered fatal injuries while operating a reciprocating saw on a ladder, losing his balance and falling 24 feet to a concrete slab. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/08/10 | Seaboard Wellhead Control, Inc., Houston, TX 77047 | Worker was struck by a pallet with a load weighing 2000 lbs. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/11/10 | Johnson Feed, Inc., North Sioux City, SD 57049 | Worker was washing trucks from an elevated platform 9 feet high and was found lying at the bottom of the platform. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/13/10 | Fast Trek Steel Inc., New Haven, CT 06510 | Worker was struck by a steel beam that fell from a building to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/13/10 | Lowe's Home Improvement, Searcy, AR 72143 | Worker climbed a rolling stepladder to retrieve stock from an overhead rack. He lost his balance and fell, striking his head on a beam and landing on the concrete below. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/13/10 | Wayne's Tree Removal, Simsbury, CT 06070 | Worker was engaged in tree removal activities. The tree snapped in half at the base; the worker was still attached to the tree as it fell to the driveway. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/14/10 | Clark's Heavy Equipment & Oil Field Service, Minot, ND 58701 | Worker was performing maintenance on skid steer and was later found pinned between the lifting arms and the cab of the skid steer. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/14/10 | Proscape Holdings, LLC., Plantation, FL 33324 | Worker using a riding lawn mower rolled over into a lake and drowned. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/14/10 | Riley Stripping, Bond & Black Top, Livermore, CA 94550 | Worker suffered fatal injuries after being crushed between two farm vehicles. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/14/10 | Valley Prestress Products Inc., Grand Prairie, TX 77050 | Worker was test-starting an engine to put in sidewinder. The fan blade came off, striking the worker on the chest and head. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/14/10 | Vulcraft Carrier Corporation, Aberdeen, MD 21005 | Worker was struck by two bar joists that fell from a load of steel bar joists on a flatbed truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | Hatcher Roofing, New Philadelphia, OH 44663 | Worker was tearing off and installing a new roof. He stepped backward off the roof, falling 12 feet to a concrete patio. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | Honey Fix-It, Media, PA 19063 | Worker was painting a fascia board and fell from an extension ladder. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | Park N Fly, Coppell, TX 75019 | Worker was servicing a van. The van rolled off of the ramps, pinning him between the muffler, transmission of the van, and the auto creeper. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | RockTenn, Norcross, GA 30071 | Worker was assigned to operate a commercial printer. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | United Parcel Service, Inc., Des Moines, IA 50321 | Worker suffered fatal injuries after being struck by a moving semi truck while loading/unloading freight. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/15/10 | Wright Tree Service, McAlester, OK 72331 | Worker was trimming a tree limb 25 feet high. The limb sprung back and struck him on the chest. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/16/10 | Dallas Metal Works, LLC, Pensacola, FL 32505 | Worker was replacing a metal roof and fell through a skylight. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/16/10 | LeBron's Construction, Springfield, MA 01107-1039 | Worker was in the process of reroofing and fell from the second story roof. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/17/10 | Gavilon Grain LLC, Morral, OH 43337 | Worker was working inside a grain silo in removal of the grain by manually moving wood slats covering the discharge auger. Worker was standing on the grating and was unhooking a sensor cable from the grating. The grating came loose; the worker fell and was pulled into the operations discharger auger. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/17/10 | Lindsey Masonary Co., Inc., Overland Park, KS 66062 | Worker fell 30 feet after the scaffold collapsed. |
FY 2010 | 09/18/10 | 09/17/10 | Midwest Fence Corporation, Forest View, IL 60402 | Worker was performing repair operations on an impact attenuator and was struck by a truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 08/18/10 | M & R Construction Co., Arkadelphia, AR 71923 | Worker was operating a backhoe at a gravel pit to load gravel into the bed of a dump truck. Worker exited the backhoe that was still running and got beneath the front bucket of the backhoe. The bucket fell, crushing the worker. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 08/31/10 | Anderson Columbia Co., Crystal River, FL 34429 | Worker was doing electrical work and was exposed to an arc flash. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Alameda Tower, Los Angeles, CA 90021 | Worker sustained fatal injuries after being hit by a trailer on company property. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Becnel Family Vineyards, Healdsburg, CA 95448 | Worker suffered fatal injuries in a roll-over accident while backing down a hillside. Worker not wearing seatbelt. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Evergreen Turf, Inc., Chandler, AZ 85286 | Worker sustained fatal injuries after being crushed by forklift that he was operating. The forklift lost control in a skid down a hill, throwing the worker who was not wearing a seatbelt. The forklift landed on and crushed the worker. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Mussop, Inc., El Dorado, AR 71730 | Worker worked as part of an industrial cleaning crew. After leaving the work site, he collapsed, exhibiting signs of heat stroke. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Rabalais I & E Constructors, Corpus Christi, TX 78460 | Worker was working from a scissor lift installing conduit and came in contact with overhead crane rail conductors that were energized. Worker was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/17/10 | Work Source, Los Angeles, CA 90010 | Worker fell, hitting her head on cabinet before hitting floor. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/19/10 | Huellinghoff Brothers, Inc., Jerseyville, IL 62052 | Worker was delivering a load of propane. A piping failure occurred causing a leak, a series of explosions, and a fire. Worker was caught in fire. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/19/10 | J. B. Hunt Gas & Oil Drilling, LLC, Rankin, TX 79778 | Worker was in the process of running casing. A high pressure hose burst, striking the worker and knocking him down the rig steps, 20 to 25 feet. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/19/10 | T.B.H. Corp., Destin, FL 32541 | Worker was conducting pH balance tests of an indoor pool and had a heart attack. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/20/10 | AT&T, Columbus, OH 43215 | Worker was working at a network junction box. He was pinned between his work van and the junction box after the vehicle rolled forward. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/20/10 | Davco Electrical Contractors Corporation, Port Orange, FL 32129 | Worker was digging up an underground electrical conduit. He reached into the ground, grabbing the conduit and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/20/10 | Riceland Foods, Inc., McGehee, AR 71654 | Worker was assisting with vacuum operation and fell into the boot pit, 20 feet. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/22/10 | Tri State Roofing, Woodland Park, CO 80863 | Worker fell from a roof. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/23/10 | Aguirre's Electric Service Inc DBA Aguirre's Green, Windcrest, TX 78239 | Worker was installing a light fixture, received an electrical shock, and fell from a ladder. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/23/10 | Dish Network Services LLC, Naper, NE 68775 | Worker was installing a satellite dish and received an electric shock from an unknown source. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/23/10 | Grant and Hagan Farms, Eden, ID 83325 | Worker was on a pallet supported by a forklift working on a potato storage door and was crushed, falling to the ground. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/23/10 | L & K Contracting Company, Inc., Enterprise, AL 36330 | Worker was in a 12-foot deep section of a trench in the process of lowering and connecting a section. A large portion of the wall gave way, covering the worker up to his shoulders. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/24/10 | Directorate of Public Works, Fort Hood, TX 76544 | Worker was changing out a ballast and capacitor for an outdoor floodlight with 277 volts and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/24/10 | John R. Jurgensen Company, Fairfield, OH 45014 | Worker, during highway paving operations, was backed over by a loaded dump truck. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/24/10 | Marks Electric, Washington, DC 20020 | Worker was conducting testing and exposed to 270-volt supplied conductors contained in an electrical box and was electrocuted. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/24/10 | Supreme Service Specialty, Broussard, LA 70518 | Worker was using a pressure testing device. Tool inside went one direction and the vessel went in another, striking the worker's torso. |
FY 2010 | 09/25/10 | 09/25/10 | Pioneer Oilfield Trucking, Inc., Eagle Pass, TX | Worker was in the process of backing up a trailer to another trailer to unload a rig. Worker was crushed after one of the trailers backed up pinning him against the opposite trailer. |