List of all worker deaths in the US this past week 8-6-11

[Omaha Steve]

http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2011/08/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace.html

Worker Falls Unconscious While Mowing Along Highway

August 5, MADISONVILLE, KY - 54 year old Anthony W. Stevenson of Hopkinsville died after an accident while mowing along the Edward T. Breathitt Parkway. Authorities say for an unknown reason Stevenson slumped over the steering wheel while the mower was in motion. It crossed both lanes of the parkway before he was knocked off and the mower ran over him.


Officer Fatally Injured While Escorting Funeral

August 5, MONTGOMERY, OH - 51 year old Roy Sims of Fort Wright, KY was fatally injured when his motorcycle collided with a hearse. Sims was escorting a private funeral procession when the accident occurred. Sims was a Northern Kentucky University police officer but was off-duty from that position at the time.


Transit Driver Dies of Heart Attack, Bus Left Idling

August 4, EDISON, NJ - Thomas Truex, a New Jersey Transit driver, died of a heart attack Thursday. Truex, of Edison, failed to return from his last stop in Manhattan and after five hours a supervisor went looking for him. He was found slumped over in the passenger seat of the bus. An autopsy determined he died of a heart attack.


Truck Driver Pinned in Equipment

August 4, VINTON, VA - 54 year old Mark Edward Creasy died Thursday after being pinned between the cab of his truck and a trailer filled with wood chips. A sheriff's spokesman said Creasy became pinned as he tried to hook his Peterbilt cab to a trailer at a logging site on Old Fire Tower Lane in Snow Creek. A co-worker found him later that morning.


Semi Driver From Canada Killed in Crash

August 3, WAVERLY, PA - 49 year old Marek Przybyla of Brantford, Ontario was killed when his tractor trailer crashed and caught fire while going off the Waverly exit. He died of burns and carbon monoxide poisoning. According to the Lackawanna County Coroner Przybyla was a diabetic recently placed on insulin and that a blood test will be completed to determine his blood sugar level and metabolic state at the time of the fatal crash.


Truck Driver Crushed Under Giant Hay Bales

August 3, NEWTON, KS - 51 year old Dennis Augustin of Dubuque, IA died Wednesday as the result of being crushed under giant round hay bales. Augustin was getting ready to unload the hay outside of Newton when 13 bales slid off his flatbed, sheriff’s deputies said. OSHA is investigating.

FULL long list at link.

[slackmaster]

1. I thought this was Shark Week

Not Freak Accident Involving Machinery Week.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. It's always Accident Involving Machinery Week in this country - nothing 'freaky' about it

Just business as usual. Here's the latest weekly list from the OSHA website:



It's like that every week - year after year. I can't work up any witticisms, as I've lost numerous family and friends to work-related accidents over the years. I find nothing even remotely fucking funny about fatalities in the workplace.