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 An
Analysis of Fatal Events in the Construction Industry 2001
(Construction Resources Analysis, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville)
An
Analysis of Fatal Events in the Construction Industry 2000(Construction
Resources Analysis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
An
Analysis of Fatal Events in the Construction Industry 1997(Construction
Resources Analysis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
American Federation of State
County and Municipal Employees Members Killed on the Job
(searchable list of more than 400 fatalities)
Census
of Fatal Occupational Injuries (U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics)
Clouds
of Injustice: Bhopal Disaster 20 Years On (Amnesty
International, November 2004)
Deaths
and Injuries Involving Elevators or Escalators (Center
to Protect Workers’ Rights, March 2004)
Fatal
Injuries Among Volunteer Workers --- United States, 1993--2002
(Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, August 5, 2005)
Fatal Injuries to Civilian Workers in
the United States, 1980-1995 (National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health, 2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries --- United States, 1980--1997 (Centers
for Disease Control, 2001)
Fatal
Occupational Injuries to Foreign-Born Workers by Selected
Characteristics, 1994-99 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
 Fatality
Assessment and Control Evaluation Program in New York State
(New York State Department of Health)
Industrial
Deaths Support and Advocacy Non-profit voluntary association
that provides emotional support and practical assistance to
the familes of those who have lost their lives as a result
of occupational accidents or disease (Australia)
New
York State Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries 1992 - 2000
(New York State Department of Health)
The
Radium Girls Story The grisly consequences of U.S.
Radium Corporation's deadly deception (1996)
The Triangle
Factory Fire (The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist
Company in New York City, in 1911,which claimed the lives
of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters
since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This incident
has a great significance to this day because it highlighted
the miserable working conditions to which unskilled industrial
workers can be subjected. To many, its horrors epitomize the
evils of the extremes of industrialism. The tragedy still
dwells in the collective memory of the nation and of the international
labor movement. The victims of the tragedy are still celebrated
as martyrs at the hands of industrial greed. — Cornell
University School of Industrial and Labor Relations)
Treatment
Guideline for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (California
Industrial Medical Council, 1997)
United
Support and Memorial for Workplace Fatalities
Workers
Memorial Day (AFL-CIO)
Workplace
Disasters (Hazards Magazine)
Youth
Fatalities (U.S. National Institute for Occupational
Safety and Health)
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Fatalities and catastrophes news |
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Coal
Mine Operator Sentenced to Prison: Safety Violations Cited
in Fatal Blast in 2003 —PIKEVILLE,
Ky. -- In a rare move, a federal judge sentenced a former
coal mine operator yesterday to 60 days in prison for safety
violations that led to an explosion in 2003, killing a miner
and injuring two others.(Nashville Courier-Journal, May
3, 2005
Bhopal
Victims Not Fully Paid, Rights Group Says
— Almost 20 years after the world's worst industrial disaster,
a gas leak from a Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal
that immediately killed 7,000 people and sickened several thousand
others, the victims are poorly compensated and the companies
have gone unpunished, a new study by Amnesty International said
on Monday. (New York Times, November 30, 2004) See also Clouds
of Injustice: Bhopal Disaster 20 Years On (Amnesty International,
November 2004)
Punishment
for ‘Cavalier' Act: Prison Time in Scaffold Deaths
— Calling the collapse of an illegally constructed scaffold
that killed five immigrant workers a "tragic certainty"
rather than an accident, a Manhattan judge yesterday sentenced
the man responsible for the deaths to at least 3 1/2 years in
prison. State Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller said she imposed
the 3 1/2- to 10 1/2-year sentence on Philip Minucci, 32, of
Commack, to reflect "the magnitude of the tragedy"
and as a deterrent. "This sentence will, I trust, serve
as a warning to others who, in pursuit of their own economic
interests, care to be cavalier about the lives of others,"
the judge said. Uviller said the case had given her an education
in how "astonishingly ineffectual" the federal government
has been in protecting workers' lives. (Newsday, January 15,
2004)
A Landmark of the Unspeakable: Honoring the Site Where 146
Died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire — A silver
bell tolled 146 times yesterday outside a building at the corner
of Greene Street and Washington Place in Manhattan. The bell
rang out, as it has every March 25, in remembrance of Nettie
Rosenthal, Julia Rosen, Sophie Salemi and the 143 other people
— mostly women, mostly immigrants — who died at the
building 92 years ago. The fire, the worst factory fire in New
York City's history, shocked a nation into action. It brought
about a wide array of new fire safety laws and spurred the labor
movement's effort to unionize garment workers.  (New York Times, March 26, 2003)
Farm Death Sparks Manslaughter Charge — Yolo
County prosecutors have filed what is believed to be the California's
first involuntary manslaughter case against a grower in the
death of a farm worker who was killed on the job. The case was
filed against a Woodland-area grower who is facing four years
in prison and $650,000 in fines if he is convicted on all three
counts in the landmark case. Deputy District Attorney Kyle Hedum
said the filing is "quite rare, but it's going to be more
and more common" -- due to a statute that elevates to a
potential felony any serious Labor Code violation that results
in a worker's death. Another four farm worker deaths in the
Central Valley and Northern California are under investigation,
according to Hedum, a staff lawyer with the California District
Attorney's Association who is working as a "circuit rider"
for the agency, helping 34 counties investigate agricultural
as well as industrial fatalities. "These guys have been
getting killed left and right up here for the last 20 years,"
Hedum said. "The more I'm out here, the more I'm going
to hear about these things." (Sacramento Bee, December 18, 2001)
'98
Explosion at Gasworks Still Shadows Esso Australia
— Try as it might, Exxon Mobil cannot seem to keep a 1998
gasworks accident in Sydney, Australia — and the way it
responded — from coming back to bite it again and again.
Mediation hearings are scheduled to get under way in an effort
to settle a large class-action lawsuit that has been filed against
the company's Australian arm, Esso Australia, by business and
residential gas customers and workers. A series of explosions
and fires at the Longford gas processing plant outside Melbourne
on Sept. 25, 1998, killed two workers and injured eight others.
Esso's black eye over the affair grew darker at each stage as
serious safety lapses at the plant were disclosed and the company
tried to sidestep responsibility. The sentencing judge in the
criminal case, Philip Cummins, minced no words about the company's
culpability. "The events of Sept. 25, 1998, were the responsibility
of Esso; no one else," Judge Cummins wrote. "Their
cause was grievous, foreseeable and avoidable." What happened,
he wrote, "was not mere accident — to use the term
`accident' denotes a lack of understanding of responsibility."
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