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Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Incident Alerts (2011 - 2018)

Published: 30 January 2017

ALL FATALITIES are colored RED

Industrial

MINE FATALITY Iowa worker killed in partial mine collapse (mine worker, 52, was pronounced dead after being recovered from a collapse that occurred just before 10 p.m. - he was a mine truck operator who had worked at the mine for 12 years - he was outside his truck in a remote part of the mine, which was not in operation, and was found buried under rock)

FORKLIFT FATALITY Stop & Shop worker killed in accident at Freetown distribution center (worker, 51, died in a fall at a company distribution center - he was killed when he fell between a loading dock and a tractor trailer as the vehicle pulled away from the dock and a forklift then fell on him)

CONFINED SPACE FATALITY – ENGULFMENT Worker dies after being buried under fertilizer at Lakeville workplace (worker, 50, was killed in a workplace accident around 10:20 a.m. - three workers were trying to unload fertilizer from a covered hopper rail car when the hopper got jammed - according to a preliminary investigation, one worker fell into the hopper while trying to break up the jam - that worker then became buried under the fertilizer and died - workers explain in a sad story of what they went through watching their co-worker die)

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