![]() ![]() CONFINED SPACE FATALITY!!! Man dies in South Seattle industrial accident (a man is dead and two others are seriously hurt after they were trapped in an industrial shredder at a metal recycling company - the men were trapped in the shredder by a large piece of metal - the men were performing maintenance on the machine, which was turned off at the time - the men were found inside the machine near a large wheel that sheds metal - airbags were most likely used to lift the piece of metal that pinned them down - the machine was a "Texas shredder," a large piece of industrial equipment that shreds crushed cars, scrap metal and other recyclable materials - investigators aren't sure how the men came to be trapped)ĬONFINED SPACE FATALITY - ENGULFMENT!!! (rescue workers recovered the body of a man, 66, from a bin of soybeans - he had been unloading beans from the bin and found that a crust had formed at the top of the bin - he climbed in to break the crust and fell into the bin - a neighbor tried to help him out of the bin but was not able to get him free - rescue workers were not able to free him before he died)ĬONFINED SPACE DOUBLE FATALITY!!! Turkiye Petrol says two workers killed in Izmit refinery explosion (an explosion which occurred during the cleaning of a tetraethyl lead tank killed two contractors - two other injured workers were treated and five personnel from the security and fire-fighting team were checked in hospital)ĬONFINED SPACE ENGULFMENT FATALITY!!! UPDATE Weyerhaeuser Hit with Largest Safety Fine in BC (WorkSafeBC announces penalty as a result of a New Westminster sawmill death (WorkSafeBC has proposed a penalty of just over $297,000 against gthe mill - this amount includes a $250,000 penalty and a claim cost levy of $47,120.80 - the incident occurred on Novemthe worker was killed when he was engulfed by wood waste material while cleaning out a “hog” machine at the sawmill - tThis machine pulverizes waste-wood products and workers had to climb inside to manually remove waste-wood products and clear out any plugs - investigation concluded that the mill was made aware of safety hazards associated with the hog machine and workers were exposed to the hazard for several years - in fact, twelve individuals in management or supervisory roles were aware that the existing process for clearing the hog posed a significant risk to workers, but the employer made no significant changes to address the hazard until after the fatality - a copy of the investigation, which has been severed as per Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation, is available at )ĬONFINED SPACE ENGULFMENT FATALITY!!! Lowell man killed in farm accident (a 65-year-old farm worker has been killed after becoming trapped in a grain bin filled with corn - he was using an auger to load shelled corn from the bin into a tractor-trailer - he apparently climbed to the top of the bin and either fell inside or entered it while trying to remove some ice that had formed at the top - the action of the corn being removed from the bin by the auger pulled him to the bottom - emergency personnel pulled his body from the bin about three hours later)ĬONFINED SPACE DOUBLE FATALITY ACCIDENT Two workers dead in Stickney (two construction workers died after they were pulled from an underground area at a water treatment plant where they may have been overcome by fumes - the two victims, ages 45 and 47, were pulled from a hole - they later were pronounced dead at a Hospital - no more details)
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