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Let’s Talk Safety: Acetylene torch operator falls from bridge work, lands on a barge, sustains serious injuries
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Let’s Talk Safety: Acetylene torch operator falls from bridge work, lands on a barge, sustains serious injuries

MCMag Dec 16 2024 172 Views

Employee #1 was using an oxygenacetylene torch to burn off structural steel bridge members, when he fell approximately 20 feet. He landed on a construction […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Employee on a barge crushed by crane counterweight
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Let’s Talk Safety: Employee on a barge crushed by crane counterweight

MCMag Dec 02 2024 156 Views

Employee #1 was involved in material handling operations to unload river silt and mud from the deck of a flattop barge. During the operations, he […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Employee guiding a pile is knocked off by another pile, strikes head during a fall and drowns
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Let’s Talk Safety: Employee guiding a pile is knocked off by another pile, strikes head during a fall and drowns

MCMag Nov 18 2024 187 Views

Employee #1 was getting ready to land a pile being set around a metal ring to form a cofferdam. He had moved his stirrups and […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Employee injured by boat explosion
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Let’s Talk Safety: Employee injured by boat explosion

MCMag Oct 28 2024 213 Views

Employee #1, a battalion chief for a fire department, was at a reported boat fire at a municipal marina. According to Employee #1, there appeared […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Trench collapses in highway and drainage project, two killed
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Let’s Talk Safety: Trench collapses in highway and drainage project, two killed

MCMag Oct 14 2024 222 Views

A highway rehabilitation project included the removal and replacement of concrete pavement, drainage modifications and new concrete barrier walls in the center median. Video inspection […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Three employees and one customer die when boat capsizes
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Let’s Talk Safety: Three employees and one customer die when boat capsizes

Ed Hall Sep 27 2024 261 Views

On January 11, 2002, three employees and one customer of a company manufacturer that manufactures high performance speed boats were testing the performance of a […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Employee asphyxiated in low-oxygen ballast compartment
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Let’s Talk Safety: Employee asphyxiated in low-oxygen ballast compartment

MCMag Sep 06 2024 240 Views

Employee #1, a maritime surveyor, entered a ballast compartment on a barge. The compartment had previously been closed for some time and Employee #1 did […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety:  Free-falling drop hammer crushes employee  
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Let’s Talk Safety:  Free-falling drop hammer crushes employee  

MCMag Aug 14 2024 327 Views

Employee #1 and his employer were building a wooden pier, supported by wooden piles approximately 30 feet long. The piles were driven into a creek […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Worker ignores spotter’s instruction, signals crane operator, sheet pile strikes workers, one fatality
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Let’s Talk Safety: Worker ignores spotter’s instruction, signals crane operator, sheet pile strikes workers, one fatality

MCMag Jul 29 2024 290 Views

Work began on Thursday, August 12, 1993 with the loading of concrete pilings onto trucks for transport and delivery to a customer. The pilings measured […] Read More »

Let’s Talk Safety: Workbench grinder wheel explodes, one fatality  
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Let’s Talk Safety: Workbench grinder wheel explodes, one fatality  

MCMag Jul 12 2024 350 Views

A mechanic needed a workbench mounted grinder and went to the tool room to get one. None were available. He decided to construct a grinder […] Read More »

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