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| FACEValue: Tree trimmer suffers fatal neck injury on wood chipper feed table | | A 33-year-old groundsman working on a tree-trimming crew died when a climber’s rope was pulled into a wood chipper. The victim had worked as a tree climber and groundsman for the company for eight years. | | 01 April 2013 | | Read More |
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| Construction worker dies after fall from ladder | | A 46-year-old helper in a small construction business was fatally injured when he fell from an extension ladder onto a concrete block foundation retaining wall. | | 01 March 2013 | | Read More |
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| FACEValue | | A self-employed handyman was electrocuted while trimming tree branches in a residential front yard. The victim was hired by a homeowner to trim the branches of a tree growing into utility lines. | | 01 February 2013 | | Read More |
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| FACEValue: Plumber dies after trench wall collapse | A plumbing contractor died after an unprotected trench he was working in collapsed. The victim was an independent plumber subcontracted to install a sewer line connection to the sewer main for a single-family
residence. | | 01 January 2013 | | Read More |
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| Face value: Equipment operator dies after being burned | | A 67-year-old machine operator died from burns when a fire ignited between the engine and cab of a bulldozer. The victim had been working at the company as a full-time heavy equipment operator for about 30 years. | | 01 May 2012 | | Read More |
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| Bulldozer kills operator standing on track | | A 33-year-old equipment operator was killed after he was pulled beneath a 45-ton bulldozer. The victim worked for a company that employed about five full-time workers and hired approximately 70 additional contract laborers. | | 01 April 2012 | | Read More |
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| Cement truck driver backed over by loader | | A 45-year-old employee of a ready-mixed cement company was fatally injured when he was backed over by a skid-steer loader. | | 01 March 2012 | | Read More |
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| Construction foreman dies after being struck by steel beam pile | | Construction foreman dies after being struck by steel beam pile | | 01 February 2012 | | Read More |
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| Worker killed after fall into manlift shaft | | A 56-year-old cleanup worker at a food mill was killed when he fell into a manlift shaft. | | 01 January 2012 | | Read More |
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| Body of compost facility worker found in digester tube | | A 50-year-old man died at a solid waste facility while working as a picker on a tipping floor, separating compostable from non-compostable trash. | | 01 December 2011 | | Read More |
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| Land surveyor struck and killed by passenger vehicle | | A 47-year-old land surveyor died after being struck by a passenger vehicle as he walked along the road. | | 01 November 2011 | | Read More |
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| Millworker killed after falling down shaft | | A 57-year-old cleanup worker at an animal feed processing plant was killed after falling into a manlift shaft. | | 01 September 2011 | | Read More |
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| Road maintenance worker killed by wheel that seperated from truck | | A 23-year-old public employee was killed after being struck by a wheel and tire assembly that separated from the axle of a flatbed truck being pulled by a tractor-trailer truck. | | 01 August 2011 | | Read More |
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| Part-time farmer dies after tractor rollover | | A 57-year-old farmer died of injuries he sustained when the tractor he was operating overturned while transporting a round hay bale. The victim was a self-employed mechanic and part-time farmer who had been farming the property his entire life. | | 01 July 2011 | | Read More |
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| Logger killed under rigging after carriage drops | | A 45-year-old logger working as a choke setter in a skyline yarding operation was killed after being crushed by the skyline carriage. The logging operation was a standing skyline yarder system, where the skyline was spooled off the yarder and attached to a tailhold anchor at the back end of the unit. | | 01 June 2011 | | Read More |
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