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Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Incident Alerts (2011 - 2018)

Published: 05 December 2016

Industrial

FATALITY Worker dead in serious industrial accident (worker, 49, was killed after the accident at the factory involving a 200 ton metal press - no further details have yet been officially confirmed, and the company has offered no comment)

MINE FATALITY Worker killed 800 feet below ground at Jeffco mine (miner has died in a work-related accident at a coal mining facility - the victim was conducting maintenance on a piece of equipment when it collapsed on him - other mine workers administered first aid and then carried the victim to paramedics waiting at the surface - he was pronounced dead when he arrived on the surface)

ELECTRICAL WORKER FATALITY Electrical worker killed as swirling storm moved in (electrical worker, 29, trying to help amid a windstorm was killed after being struck by a falling tree - at a time when wind gusts were raging to as much as 60 mph he was part of a crew sent down from the city to help troubleshoot - while climbing a utility pole, he was struck by a falling tree - he was taken to a Hospital and was pronounced dead a short time later)

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