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Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Incident Alerts (2011 - 2018)

Published: 20 December 2016

Industrial

OIL RIG 1 dead, 9 missing in Azerbaijan offshore oil rig accident (one oil worker has been reported killed and nine more are missing after part of their offshore oil platform broke off in strong winds - a 150-meter (490-foot) section of walkway fell into the sea amid 90 mph (145 kph) winds and says 10 workers are missing - five of the victims had been working on the installation and another five were in a cabin that was torn off the structure)

TRAIN AMPUTATION Pan Am Railway worker loses arm in Glenville accident (worker, 22, had his arm cut off by a train shortly before 5 a.m. - he had slipped on some ice, causing his arm to go across a rail where it was run over by the train - his arm was cut off below the shoulder and was recovered and sent with the victim to a Medical Center - worker was stationed alongside the tracks near a switch that controls the rails at the time of the accident, and the train was moving at a slow rate of speed)

CRUSHING FATALITY @ LANDFILL Worker Crushed to Death in San Juan Capistrano Land Fill Accident (construction worker, 38, was crushed to death at a landfill about 3 p.m. - investigators found a wrench and hydraulic fluid near the accident scene, leading them to suspect that he might have been working on the hydraulic lift of the dump truck before he got crushed under it)

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