For the morbidly curious...

[OuTpaTienT]

I don't remember how I found my way here, but for the past 45 minutes I've been fascinated with this site:
California FACE Reports Index

Some of the better ones:
Carpenter dies in fall from ladder when circular saw slashes his neck
Laborer dies when he falls into a process tank of heated nickel acetate.
Welder crushed by hydraulic door on scrap metal shredding machine.
Electrician apprentice crushed by scissor lift

[Atomic Rooster]

That site is boring. There's no pictures!

[Chuckiechan]

As the saying goes, "Every safety regulation was paid for in someones blood."

That's another reason why employers are so happy to hire immigrant labor. They won't complain about unsafe work sites, they don't demand safety equipment, and those that can read won't be seen reading OSH regulations in the job shack!

[Brainchild]

A 52 year-old welder was crushed to death by a hydraulic door on a scrap metal shredder. The victim was attempting to remove a jammed piece of metal from the hydraulic door when the incident occurred. The system’s energy had not been released and the controls were not locked, blocked, or tagged out before the victim attempted to remove the jam.

DUH!
Looks like most all those accidents were born of carelessness bordering stupidity.

[Gomer]

Looks like most all those accidents were born of carelessness bordering stupidity.

Even the smartest people in the world can have a lapse of judgement. Many factors probably played into these accidents.

Lack of sleep, hunger, heat, cold, PRESSURE, stress etc.

One summer at the lumberyard I was working in the sheet insulation area. Climbing high, moving large bundles of 4x8 sheets in a steaming hot warehouse. A combination of the heat, dehydration, and fumes caused me to go a bit loopy. I started having tunnel-vision, and instead of getting concerned, at first I was just thinking "hey, this is pretty cool!" It wasn't until I started getting dizzy and nauseous that I realized something was wrong.

[Gomer]

The cause of death, according to the autopsy report, was total body fragmentation

That'll do it every time.

[Chuckiechan]

Job sites are generally noisy, busy places. People are dwarfed by most of the engineering equipment. Most union jobs have go and no go areas to keep people from getting killed. Drivers do a lot of reversing and don't lool back for what is not supposed to be there.

The safest jobsites are union job sites. Non-union site are usually not as safe and yet rarely even require hard hats.

[Brainchild]

Even the smartest people in the world can have a lapse of judgement. Many factors probably played into these accidents.

Yeah maybe but there always those guys that will crawl under a car to change the oil with it only on a bumper jack

[RedFury]

Warehouse laborer falls and dies after being lifted by a forklift to retrieve boxes. (92CA015)

I think this is the guy from Theo's German Forklift Saftey video!

[OuTpaTienT]

I've done that on a forklift. Our one of our heaters was way up near the roof and it needed the pilot-sensor-do-hicky replaced. This was in Denver so we needed every heater we had just to not freeze. Forklift seemed to be the only way up there. I was manager and wouldn't let any of my guys do it, so I had to. Put a palatte on the forks, used some strapping to secure it to the forks, no cage or anything fancy like that, then up I went, ...and up, ...and up! As high as the forklift would go was just barely enough for me to reach the heater and work on it.