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Parent Category: Safety Info Posts

Category: Incident Alerts (2011 - 2018)

Published: 09 March 2018

Industrial

LOTO FATALITY Landfill Employee's Death In Shredder Appears Accidental (Sheriff's deputies are continuing to investigate the gruesome death of a 46-year-old employee at a privately owned landfill - shortly after 10 a.m. a worker went to clear a jammed trash-shredding machine - after he repaired the machine, HE CALLED OUT TO HIS CO-WORKERS TO RE-START IT - a couple of hours went by before the employees realized they hadn't seen their co-worker since he left to repair the machine - they began searching through the shredded debris that had been deposited in the landfill and discovered his remains)

CONFINED SPACE AMPUTATIONS Man loses legs in workplace accident at Alhambra Foundry, company fined nearly $300K (a foundry has been fined $283,390 for workplace safety, and health violations following an accident that resulted in the amputation of an employee’s legs - Cal/OSHA cited the company for similar violations eight years ago - on Aug. 28, two workers at the foundry were cleaning and unblocking a 38-feet-long auger screw conveyor at the bottom hopper of an industrial air filtration device without effectively de-energizing or locking out the equipment - one of the workers re-entered the 20-inch square opening after the cleaning was done to retrieve a work light from inside the confined space, when a maintenance worker 45 feet away energized the equipment to perform a test -the moving auger screw pulled the worker into the screw conveyor - both his legs had to be amputated to free him)

CRANE FATALITY Maine mill worker dies in a workplace accident (worker, employed at the sawmill since 2013, died in a workplace accident during maintenance on a log yard crane outside of the mill)

FORKLIFT FATALITY Vehicle Falls Off Forklift, Kills Worker At Recycling Center (a vehicle being moved on a forklift fell off and landed on a worker at a recycling center just before 8 a.m. - worker died at the scene - wind did not appear to have contributed to the accident)

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