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Fatality
Thursday
Mar 15 |
Mineral Heights, Jamaica: A temporary worker died in an accident at a wastewater treatment plant More information |
Thursday
Mar 15 |
Brush, CO: A warehouse worker died after being buried beneath a 20-foot mound of pinto beans. More information |
Thursday
Mar 15 |
Sotkomo, Finland: Elevated hydrogen sulphide concentrations were detected near the body of a metals plant worker. More information |
Thursday
Mar 15 |
Dakota City, NE: A worker at a food processing plant died when equipment he was operating collapsed. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 13 |
Majalgaon, India: An engineer and a fitter died in an explosion of the boiler at a sugar processing factory. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 13 |
Moranbah, Australia: An explosion killed a worker who was welding on top of a large waste oil reservoir at a recycling waste management business. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 13 |
Knoxville, TN: A worker at a plant making materials used by commercial printers died when hit by a truck. More information |
Monday
Mar 12 |
Lenz, Austria: 2 metalworkers at an aluminum foundry died when a colleague turned on the giant industrial oven they were cleaning. More information |
Monday
Mar 12 |
Cumbria, UK: A worker was killed and another injured when a crane in use at an industrial park dropped its load. More information |
Sunday
Mar 11 |
Hunter Valley, Australia: A worker at an engineering firm was crushed to death when a hopper fell off a forklift. More information |
Saturday
Mar 10 |
Scarboro, WV: A coal miner operating a continuous mining machine was killed. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 07 |
Ayyanar, India: 1 person was killed and another seriously injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 07 |
Nagulapalli, India: 4 workers died and several others sustained injures in a blast in a firecracker factory. More information |
Wednesday
Mar 07 |
Bartow, FL: A diesel-laden tanker truck burst into flames after being struck by a freight train, killing the tanker driver. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
Memphis, TN: 1 of 3 people injured by a flash fire while working on a flare drum at an oil refinery later died. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
Summerville, SC: An asphalt plant worker died of his injuries after getting caught in machinery. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
For McMurray, AB: A power plant worker bled to death after being struck in the leg by a ruptured steam line. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
Calvert, AL: A construction worker was killed at a site for a new stainless steel products plant. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
Eleusina, Greece: A Greek tanker carrying more than 2,000 tons of oil has sunk off the port of Piraeus, with its captain on board. More information |
Tuesday
Mar 06 |
Deeside, UK: A worker who fell from a ladder at an engineering company died from his injuries. More information |
Monday
Mar 05 |
Umatilla, OR: A worker died in an accident at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Sunday
Mar 04 |
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo: More than 200 people were killed when a series of huge explosions rocked a weapons depot. More information |
Sunday
Mar 04 |
Kangpokpi, India: Fire gutted 25 lodgings, which housed labourers at a plywood factory, leaving 1 dead. More information |
Sunday
Mar 04 |
Taltal, Chile: An explosion in a copper mine killed 1 person and injured another. More information |
Saturday
Mar 03 |
Kanglatongbi, India: A sudden fire broke out at a wood factory, killing a worker and injuring 4 others. More information |
Saturday
Mar 03 |
New Lenox, IL: A major oil pipeline will be shut down for several days after a spill and fire caused by a freak car accident that killed 2.
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Friday
Mar 02 |
Flowery Branch, GA: A worker died after being pulled into machinery at a wire making factory. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Harlem, GA: A pecan plant worker died from a head injury when an air compressor exploded. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Clark Freeport, Philippines: 4 workers died and 4 were injured when a 30-foot wall being built at a pharmaceutical plant collapsed in a high wind. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Vilnius, Lithuania: 2 workers have died at a Polish-owned oil refinery after a vacuum tank exploded. More information |
Friday
Mar 02 |
Boyd County, KY: A worker at a company that crushes rock and slag for a steel plant died in a converyor belt accident. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Karachi, Pakistan: A worker died and 8 others fell unconscious when lethal gas leaked at a confectionery plant. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Struthers, OH: 2 sewer plant workers who suffered severe burns after a methane explosion died from their injuries within the next 6 weeks. More information |
Thursday
Mar 01 |
Natakai, India: An ice factory owner died and 2 others were injured when a gas cylinder used for refrigeration exploded. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 29 |
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: A factory worker sleeping behind sheets of heavy glass propped against a wall was cut to death when the wall collapsed. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 29 |
Houston, TX: A worker died when an object fell from a railroad car and hit him at a warehouse storing steel. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 28 |
Vrede, S. Africa: 1 person died and 2 were injured in a fiery explosion that gutted a fuel station and damaged a tire company next door. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 28 |
Shijiazhuang, China: An explosion at a pesticides factory killed 25 people and injured 46 others. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 28 |
Makhachkala, Russia: A major fire aboard a Russian oil tanker that involved deck equipment has killed at least one sailor. More information |
Tuesday
Feb 28 |
Ballygowan, UK: A fatal accident was reported at a manufacturing plant. More information |
Monday
Feb 27 |
Hudson, WI: A tanker truck carrying nearly 7,500 gallons of fuel crashed and burned, killing the driver. More information |
Friday
Feb 24 |
Pooler, GA: A warehouse worker attempting to stop the sexual assault of a co-worker was shot to death at work. More information |
Friday
Feb 24 |
Yeshwantpur, India: A garment worker fell to her death from the 3rd floor of a factory during a fire drill. More information |
Thursday
Feb 23 |
Sherman, MS: A worker died when he was caught by machinery at a factory making foam rubber products. More information |
Thursday
Feb 23 |
Gatlinburg, TN: A worker was killed when a ditch collapsed at a wastewater treatment plant, the site of a double fatality last April. More information |
Thursday
Feb 23 |
Port Kembla, Australia: A man working with a remote control crane at a copper manufacturing plant was found crushed to death under about a ton of copper pipe. More information |
Thursday
Feb 23 |
Nanjing, China: Toxic gases at a steel factory killed 3 workers and injured 10. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Suez, Egypt: 4 people died and 5 were injured when the floor beneath them collapsed during a fire in the lubricating oil section of a refinery. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Newark, NJ: A worker unloading a ship was crushed to death between 2 railroad-car-sized metal containers. More information |
Wednesday
Feb 22 |
Ponce Enriquez de Azuay, Ecuador: A mine explosion killed 5 miners and injured 15 more. More information |
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