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This List of Ways People • FY 2011,11/27/10,11/20/10, "American Products, Honolulu, HI 96819", Worker was
Fireworks Mfg Co. Inc., Utica, NY 13502", pulling frozen food boxes for customer
Are Dying at Work Will Worker was struck by fireworks during a orders while standing on a wooden pallet
fireworks show. lifted up by a company forklift truck. The
Make Your Stomach • FY 2011,11/27/10,11/22/10, "Wolf Creek forklift operator lowered the forklift, with
Churn Ski Lodge,, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147", Ski worker still on pallet, to approximately 10
patrol employee was killed in an feet above the concrete floor, and began
avalanche.FY 2010,10/02/09,09/25/09, backing up. Operator heard something fall
Continued from Page 78 "Tyson Foods - River Valley Animal Foods, and found the worker lying face down on
Scranton, AR 72863", Decedent was the concrete floor.
• FY 2012,6/30/2012,6/22/2012, "Village of dumping a load of offal from a tractor trailer. • FY 2011,01/22/11,01/10/11, "J & J Ag
Central City - Public Works Department, He was in the process of dumping offal into Products Inc., Clewiston, FL 33440",
Central City, IL 62801", Worker was killed a bin when the tailgate malfunctioned. Worker was electrocuted while spraying a
when a burning tree limb fell on his head. Decedent was freeing the tailgate, it broccoli field when he raised the tractor's
• FY 2012,8/4/2012,7/30/2012, "Bimbo released, and the load swept the decedent spray boom and hit an overhead power
Bakery, Galt, CA 95632", Worker was into the offal bin. Decedent drowned in line.
crushed by a rack of baked goods. the bin. • FY 2011,01/01/11,12/28/10, "Bontrager
• FY 2012,8/25/2012,8/22/2012, "David • FY 2010,10/02/09,09/28/09, "Jacoby Feed Excavating, Massillon, OH 44646", While
Girard Vineyard, Placerville, CA 95667", & Seed, Melvin, TX 76858", Employees working in a 15 to 20 feet deep trench, the
Worker at a vineyard was crushed in a wine were installing a tilt-wall into a trench. walls collapsed, burying two workers. One
press. Decedent was inside the trench when the worker was rescued and hospitalized, but the
• FY 2010,10/30/09,10/26/09, "Val-O-Mo earth collapsed. other worker was buried completely and
Farm, Inc., Elmwood, WI 54740", "Worker • FY 2010,10/02/09,09/28/09, "Zachary died.
was operating a skid-steer cleaning out a Construction Corp., Mansfield, LA 71052", • FY 2010,06/19/10,06/16/10, "Stuart & Kim
dairy cattle barn near an outdoor manure Decedent was walking across a tank and Sorenson Feed and Grain LLC., Zachow, WI
slurry pit. The skid-steer and the worker fell fell through a hatch into a tank of boiling 54182", Worker was in a grain bin
off the end of the push-off platform into the water. He either drowned or died of thermal breaking loose bridged grain that was not
manure slurry pit, trapping the worker in the burns. flowing and was buried in the corn.
vehicle. Worker died of suffocation due to • FY 2010,10/02/09,09/30/09, "Weight Farm, • FY 2010,07/31/10,07/28/10, "Haasbach
inhalation of manure. Bellfonte, PA 16823", Decedent was inside a LLC, Mt. Carroll, IL 61053", Worker was
• FY 2013,2/23/2013,1/14/2013, "Kaba Ilco silo loading the feeder from a ladder. He engulfed in corn.
Corporation, Forsyth, NC 27009", Worker became wedged within the ladder cage in • FY 2010,10/23/09,10/20/09, "Sutherland
crushed and killed when a cart carrying a fetal position and suffocated. Builders Inc., Penn Yan, NY 14527",
2,000 pounds of zinc tipped over on top of • FY 2010,10/09/09,10/05/09, "Marine Worker was struck/crushed by walls and
him.FY 2011,10/30/10,10/27/10, "Notre Fabrication and Repair, Houma, LA 70360", roof of a building after a dump truck fell
Dame University, Notre Dame, IN 46556", Worker was performing welding duties onto the building.
Worker was in a scissor lift filming a aboard a marine vessel. An electrode from • FY 2010,09/11/10,09/08/10, "Woodwork
football practice when the lift tipped over. his welding equipment contacted the Manufacturing & Supply, Hutchinson, KS
(High winds were reported.) sweat on his neck, causing an electric 67501-5373", Worker discovered a fire in a
• FY 2013, 2/23/2013, 2/13/2013, shock. sawdust collection system and attempted to
"Professional Service Industries Inc., Belle • FY 2010,10/09/09,10/06/09, "Ace Flooring, extinguish the fire by opening the dump
Glade, FL 33430", Employee died after Inc., Mesa, AZ 85205", The worker was doors on the bottom of the sawdust collector
being thrown from and run over by crushed under a 12-foot long, 3-inch and a flash fire occurred, enveloping the
bulldozer. diameter carpet roll. worker in flames/burning sawdust.
• FY 2011,11/13/10,11/10/10, "Lassen Forest • FY 2010,10/09/09,10/07/09, "Buckhorn, • FY 2010,09/11/10,09/07/10, "Unknown
Products, Red Bluff, CA 96080", Worker Inc., Springfield, MO 65803", Worker was Contractor, Risingsun, OH 43467", Worker
fell into a wood chipper. cleaning the hardened plastic from the mold. was pulled into a tree chipper machine.
• FY 2011,12/18/10,12/01/10, "Bob Davis He was standing in between the mold plates • FY 2010,08/28/10,08/16/10, "Platt Hill
Paint & Drywall, Inc., Galveston, TX when the machine started and was crushed Nursery Inc., Bloomingdale, IL 60108",
77554", Worker was operating an aerial lift between the mold plates. Worker was eating lunch and swallowed a
to perform painting on a 4-story • FY 2010,10/09/09,10/07/09, "Pages Creek bee. []
condominium, when he was pinned between Marine Services, Inc., Wilmington, NC
the building and the control station in the 28411", The worker used a set of 2-ton From the Pages of “Did You Know?”
elevated working platform. His body underslung hoists to raise a boat on a trailer. by Rob McConnell:
pushed against the joystick that The boat fell, crushing the worker
controlled the lift, causing it to push him between the boat and the left rear of the DYK...Astronomers believe that a new star
even more against the building, which trailer. is born every 18 days.
eventually caused his death. • FY 2010,10/09/09,10/07/09, "Werner DYK...If you draw a line through the Sun’s
• FY 2011,11/20/10,11/15/10, "John Charles Construction, Inc., Norfolk, NE 68701", middle it would be 865,000 miles long (1.5
Traverso dba Traverso Tree Service, Worker was washing flights on an auger million km).
Concord, CA 94521", Worker died after of a concrete machine and was pulled into DYK...It takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43
being partially pulled into a wood chipper. the flights of the auger. minutes for our Moon to complete one full
Foot/ankle got caught in rope and pulled him • FY 2010,10/16/09,10/12/09, "Reilly orbit around Earth.
in. Died from head injury when his head Construction Co. Inc., Ossian, IA", The DYK...The Moon orbits Earth at a speed of
hit the gate on the chute. No contact with worker was replacing a pivot pin on the 2,288 miles per hour (3,683 kilometers per
blades. equalizer bar under a bulldozer. The hour).
• FY 2011,11/20/10,11/16/10, "Basic Energy bulldozer was supported with jack stands. DYK...The moon orbits the Earth once every
Services,, Quitman, LA 71268", Worker was The worker was under the bulldozer when 27.322 days.
standing by at a well platform while it fell off the jack stands and crushed him. DYK...The Moon travels around the Earth
circulation and cleaning was being • FY 2010,10/23/09,10/17/09, "Wong about 13 times a year.
performed in the well. A tube rushed up and Potatoes Inc., Merrill, OR 97603", The DYK...The next full moon on Halloween
out of the well. As everyone ran for cover, a worker was run over by a trailer while will occur in 2020.
portion of the tube struck the worker in harvesting onions.
the head and killed him. • FY 2010,04/17/10,03/13/10, "Choyce Available at www.robmcconnell.ca
