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| 1 | 1 | 38083 38083 | 1 | An employee working for Asplundh Tree Expert Company was performing a regularly | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 2 | 2 | 38083 38083 | 2 | assigned task when the person was struck by an overhead falling object. The empl | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 3 | 3 | 38083 38083 | 3 | oyee was killed. | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 4 | 4 | 45203 45203 | 1 | THE EMPLOYEES WERE OPERATING A "DEMAG" CONTINUOUS CASTER AT THE BETHLEHEM STEEL | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 5 | 5 | 45203 45203 | 2 | CORPORATION, STEELTON PLANT. A POURING GATE ON THE BOTTOM OF A 250 TON, #40 LADL | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 6 | 6 | 45203 45203 | 3 | E MALFUNCTIONED, CAUSING A SPILL OF MOLTEN STEEL (APPROXIMATELY 20 TONS) ONTO TH | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 7 | 7 | 45203 45203 | 4 | E LADLE FLOOR, 75 FEET BELOW. THE SPILL CAUSED SMOKE AND INTENSE HEAT. ONE EMPLO | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 8 | 8 | 45203 45203 | 5 | YEE WAS HOSPITALIZED FOR FIRST AND SECOND SECOND DEGREE BURNS. NINE OTHER EMPLOY | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 9 | 9 | 45203 45203 | 6 | EES WERE TREATED FOR BURNS AND SMOKE INHALATION AND RELEASED. | 2019-07-22 00:19:26 EDT |
| 10 | 10 | 51821 51821 | 1 | An apprentice lineman was operating a digger-derrick to lower a utility pole int | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 11 | 11 | 51821 51821 | 2 | o a hole. Instead of lowering the boom, however, he inadvertently raised it into | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 12 | 12 | 51821 51821 | 3 | a 12-kilovolt overhead power line. This energized the truck, electrocuting the | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 13 | 13 | 51821 51821 | 4 | employee. | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 14 | 14 | 65854 65854 | 1 | A power line worker was taking part in a test operation in conjunction with an e | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 15 | 15 | 65854 65854 | 2 | lectrical equipment manufacturer (General Electric Company). He apparently conta | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 16 | 16 | 65854 65854 | 3 | cted a test lead belonging to the manufacturing company. The lead was energized | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 17 | 17 | 65854 65854 | 4 | at 13 kilovolts, and the employee was electrocuted. | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 18 | 18 | 185231 185231 | 1 | A power line worker working from an aerial lift contacted an overhead power line | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 19 | 19 | 185231 185231 | 2 | . The resulting electric shock caused him to fall. The employee died, either fro | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 20 | 20 | 185231 185231 | 3 | m the electric shock or from the injuries received in the fall. | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 21 | 21 | 501015 501015 | 1 | Employee #1 was apparently attempting to crawl feet-first out of a bin through a | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 22 | 22 | 501015 501015 | 2 | hydraulic gate. His body contacted the electronic eye, bringing down the gate, | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 23 | 23 | 501015 501015 | 3 | which fractured his neck and killed him. According to management, the gate's hyd | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 24 | 24 | 501015 501015 | 4 | raulic valve was in the open position after being shut off earlier that day. The | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 25 | 25 | 501015 501015 | 5 | employer had no lockout procedures or equipment. The equipment had been install | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 26 | 26 | 501015 501015 | 6 | ed in May 1990. | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 27 | 27 | 508580 508580 | 1 | Employee #1 and a coworker were working on oyster rafts. Neither was wearing a l | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 28 | 28 | 508580 508580 | 2 | ife jacket. Their access boat came untied and began drifting away. Employee #1, | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 29 | 29 | 508580 508580 | 3 | a strong swimmer, dove in the water in an attempt to retrieve the boat. He was u | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 30 | 30 | 508580 508580 | 4 | nable to reach the boat before hypothermia set in and he drowned. The coworker w | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 31 | 31 | 508580 508580 | 5 | as a nonswimmer. | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 32 | 32 | 508598 508598 | 1 | While conducting surface supplied air commercial diving operations, 60 feet deep | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 33 | 33 | 508598 508598 | 2 | in saltwater, Employee #1's mouthpiece became separated from his face mask. Whe | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 34 | 34 | 508598 508598 | 3 | n coworkers aboard the boat noticed an absence of air bubbles, they pulled up th | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 35 | 35 | 508598 508598 | 4 | e air base to bring Employee #1 to the surface. He was then resuscitated, but di | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 36 | 36 | 508598 508598 | 5 | ed two days later in the hospital. | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 37 | 37 | 508820 508820 | 1 | Employee #1 and a crew had driven 32 wood piles and were changing the configurat | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 38 | 38 | 508820 508820 | 2 | ion of the handles to drive a steel pile. It was a windy and rainy day. The cran | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 39 | 39 | 508820 508820 | 3 | e operator dried the drum brakes and moved the hammer leads over the deck and lo | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 40 | 40 | 508820 508820 | 4 | wered them onto blocks. The drum brakes were wet again by this time so the opera | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 41 | 41 | 508820 508820 | 5 | tor dried the brakes a second time. He tried without success to seal the brakes | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 42 | 42 | 508820 508820 | 6 | to keep the rain out. The company owner and an inspector were adjacent to the pi | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 43 | 43 | 508820 508820 | 7 | le driver, both involved in other tasks. Apparently, Employee #1 went through th | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 44 | 44 | 508820 508820 | 8 | e beds on the opposite side of the pile guide. The hammer slipped against the we | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 45 | 45 | 508820 508820 | 9 | t drum brakes, striking Employee #1 in the back three times. He was killed. Befo | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 46 | 46 | 508820 508820 | 10 | re the accident, Employee #1 was told not to expose himself by walking through t | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 47 | 47 | 508820 508820 | 11 | he beds, but to walk around them. | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 48 | 48 | 508895 508895 | 1 | Employee #1, a scuba diver, was installing a shackle onto a fixed anchor line in | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 49 | 49 | 508895 508895 | 2 | approximately 120 ft of water when, for some reason his high pressure hose was | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 50 | 50 | 508895 508895 | 3 | severed in two and he drowned. Causal factors contributing to this accident: (1) | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 51 | 51 | 508895 508895 | 4 | both primary and alternate regulators were in need of repair; (2) there was no | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 52 | 52 | 508895 508895 | 5 | flotation equipment with an air source separate from the breathing air supply; a | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 53 | 53 | 508895 508895 | 6 | nd (3) there was no standby diver. In addition, Employee #1 was using borrowed e | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 54 | 54 | 508895 508895 | 7 | quipment that was unfamiliar to him, he was not line-tended, and he was not carr | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 55 | 55 | 508895 508895 | 8 | ying a reserve air supply. | 2019-07-22 00:19:32 EDT |
| 56 | 56 | 508911 508911 | 1 | Employee #1, a sales administrator for the U.S. Forest Service, was attempting t | 2019-07-22 00:19:31 EDT |
| 57 | 57 | 508911 508911 | 2 | o make contact with a U.S. Forest Service contract cutter in an active cutting a | 2019-07-22 00:19:31 EDT |
| 58 | 58 | 508911 508911 | 3 | rea. The employee came down a slope, through dense brush, to within 120 feet of | 2019-07-22 00:19:31 EDT |
| 59 | 59 | 508911 508911 | 4 | the cutter when he received fatal crushing injuries to his pelvis and abdominal | 2019-07-22 00:19:31 EDT |
| 60 | 60 | 508911 508911 | 5 | area. | 2019-07-22 00:19:31 EDT |
| 61 | 61 | 508937 508937 | 1 | While Employee #1 was SCUBA diving in approximately 120 feet of water, using equ | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 62 | 62 | 508937 508937 | 2 | ipment that was marginally/poorly maintained, his high pressure hose was inadver | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 63 | 63 | 508937 508937 | 3 | tently cut and he drowned. Causal factors include: no standby diver was availabl | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 64 | 64 | 508937 508937 | 4 | e to render assistance; Employee #1 was not line tended; Employee #1 was not wea | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 65 | 65 | 508937 508937 | 5 | ring a required personal flotation device; and no supplemental air supply was pr | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 66 | 66 | 508937 508937 | 6 | ovided. | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 67 | 67 | 508945 508945 | 1 | Employees were standing around a barricaded ceiling hole waiting for the manlift | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 68 | 68 | 508945 508945 | 2 | to pick them up at the end of the day. The employees had been told to stay off | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 69 | 69 | 508945 508945 | 3 | the metal roof decking and to stand on the platform constructed for them. The co | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 70 | 70 | 508945 508945 | 4 | rrugated metal pan pulled away from the bolts holding it to a 6 in. channel. The | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 71 | 71 | 508945 508945 | 5 | roof decking, which is probably 50 years old, gave way. Three employees fell; t | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 72 | 72 | 508945 508945 | 6 | wo were wearing harnesses and their lanyards were attached to the barricade. Emp | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 73 | 73 | 508945 508945 | 7 | loyee #1 who had a body harness and lanyard, but was not tied off to the barrica | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 74 | 74 | 508945 508945 | 8 | de, fell 15 ft onto a convex box. The box broke his fall, but he fell another 35 | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 75 | 75 | 508945 508945 | 9 | ft to the concrete. Employee #1 sustained a broken hip and ribs and a kidney wa | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 76 | 76 | 508945 508945 | 10 | s removed during surgery. If Employee #1's lanyard had been connected to the bar | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 77 | 77 | 508945 508945 | 11 | ricade, he would not have fallen. The other employees who fell did not sustain a | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 78 | 78 | 508945 508945 | 12 | ny injuries. | 2019-07-22 00:19:28 EDT |
| 79 | 79 | 508960 508960 | 1 | Employees #1 through #5, who were in and around a 440-barrel glycol knockdown ta | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 80 | 80 | 508960 508960 | 2 | nk, were injured by a flash fire. They were all hospitalized. | 2019-07-22 00:19:27 EDT |
| 81 | 81 | 509075 509075 | 1 | Employee #1, of the National Park Service, was assisting a climber on Mt. McKinl | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 82 | 82 | 509075 509075 | 2 | ey. They were trying to exit a ridge at the 16,000 ft line when they were trappe | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 83 | 83 | 509075 509075 | 3 | d by high winds. Both froze to death. Employee #1 was found six days later wedge | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 84 | 84 | 509075 509075 | 4 | d between rocks he apparently tried to use as protection. | 2019-07-22 00:19:30 EDT |
| 85 | 85 | 509091 509091 | 1 | A new dock was to be constructed in Skagway, AK, as the old dock was removed. Ea | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 86 | 86 | 509091 509091 | 2 | rly in the construction process, an undersea mudslide occurred that took out the | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 87 | 87 | 509091 509091 | 3 | construction site. Employee #1 was trapped by falling debris and drawn into the | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 88 | 88 | 509091 509091 | 4 | ocean and drowned. | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 89 | 89 | 509109 509109 | 1 | At 7:20 p.m. on January 27, 1995, at the end of a work shift, several longshorem | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 90 | 90 | 509109 509109 | 2 | en were leaving a tramper vessel and using a rope jacob's ladder to reach the de | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 91 | 91 | 509109 509109 | 3 | ck of a transport (tug) vessel. Employee #1 was approximately 6 ft down the ladd | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 92 | 92 | 509109 509109 | 4 | er when he released his hold and fell approximately 15 ft to the tug deck, strik | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 93 | 93 | 509109 509109 | 5 | ing his head on a metal housing attached to the tug's wheelhouse. He was killed. | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 94 | 94 | 509117 509117 | 1 | At approximately 9:30 a.m. on November 25, 1996, Employee #1, a 24-year-old male | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 95 | 95 | 509117 509117 | 2 | , was working aboard the F/V Stormbird. The vessel had been participating in a t | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 96 | 96 | 509117 509117 | 3 | anner crab opening and was docked at the city pier in Old Harbor, Kodiak Island, | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 97 | 97 | 509117 509117 | 4 | AK. Employee #1 was making a commercial SCUBA dive, attempting to untangle crab | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 98 | 98 | 509117 509117 | 5 | lines from the vessel's propeller. He entered the water shortly after 9:00 a.m. | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 99 | 99 | 509117 509117 | 6 | and was in the water only 10 to 15 minutes before he surfaced and yelled for he | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
| 100 | 100 | 509117 509117 | 7 | lp. When he submerged, the crew began using grappling hooks and fishing line to | 2019-07-22 00:19:29 EDT |
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