CASE |
MIFACE Summaries of MIOSHA Inspections |
Case 109 |
50-year-old construction laborer was killed when a piece of frozen soil broke off during a trench excavation operation and struck him in the back. |
Case 110 |
54-year-old road construction laborer was killed when he was struck by an oncoming vehicle operated by a driver who was intoxicated. |
Case 113 |
47-year-old chain saw operator killed by a tree that fell in an unexpected direction. |
Case 117 |
45-year-old owner of a gutter installation company died after falling 30 feet from a rough terrain forklift platform. |
Case 125 |
38-year-old construction equipment operator died when an explosion occurred while he was cutting pipes on top of a 400 gallon oil storage tank with a Partner K950 gas powered chop saw. |
Case 128 |
79-year-old volunteer helping to install vinyl siding on a church addition died after a 4-tier, 20-foot high tubular welded frame steel scaffold fell and struck his head. |
Case 129 |
49-year-old printer was killed while raising a foyer wall at a residential construction site. |
Case 13 |
54-year-old truck driver was killed when a pre-cast sewer-manhole cone and its base tipped off the forks of a front-end loader pinning him between the bed of his flat bed semi truck and the 2,500 lb cone. |
Case 131 |
34-year-old male construction laborer was killed by an oncoming vehicle after stepping out into the oncoming traffic lane to sweep debris from a travel (live) lane. |
Case 140 |
56-year-old painter was struck in the head by a falling gutter. |
Case 143 |
41-year-old worker was killed when the sides of the trench in which he was working collapsed on him and a fellow worker. |
Case 147 |
29-year-old Hispanic laborer was killed when he was crushed by a trench wall cave-in while installing water service. |
Case 15 |
43-year-old plumber died when trench walls collapsed while locating the tap into the mainline sewer. |
Case 168 |
35-year-old male truck driver emptying his trailer load was killed when a nearby gravel trailer located six feet away collapsed onto his tractor cab. |
Case 18 |
48-year-old heavy equipment operator was killed when he was run over by a fuel truck. |
Case 183 |
37-year-old construction laborer died when he was struck by a resin-impregnated tube during its removal from an underground sewer pipe. |
Case 186 |
55-year-old electrician died when the bridge of a pendant-controlled overhead crane struck the self-propelled elevating work platform in which he was elevated. |
Case 189 |
41-year-old iron worker was critically injured when a steel beam struck his head after he and the 300 pound cantilevered beam he had been sitting on fell approximately 14 feet. He died several weeks later in the hospital. |
Case 19 |
77-year-old truck driver killed when run over by a delivery truck at a construction site. |
Case 190 |
28-year-old ironworker was killed when the frame of a falsework support tower for a skeleton structure for a ramp to a toll plaza under construction collapsed and struck him. |
Case 194 |
45-year-old truck driver/feller/crew leader for a road commission died when he was struck by a falling tree limb as he retreated from the tree after felling it with a chain saw. |
Case 195 |
48-year-old heavy equipment operator/foreman was killed when an elevated 18-foot long, 3,500 pound dump box of a truck that was being supported by a 3/8-inch chain and front end loader dislodged from the chain and fell onto him. |
Case 203 |
75-year-old owner of a plumbing and heating company was killed when he was pinned under a bulldozer, which tipped and landed on him as he was loading it onto a trailer. |
Case 21 |
35-year-old laborer wearing a hard hat was killed when a brick weighing nearly 18 pounds fell approximately 115 feet and struck his head. |
Case 210 |
45-year-old construction business owner died when he was pinned between a dump truck and a box truck used for tool storage. |
Case 218 |
36-year-old Hispanic construction laborer died when an excavation collapsed. |
Case 222 |
51-year-old crew supervisor died as a result of a 6036 Skytrack rough terrain forklift overturn to the side. |
Case 224 |
61-year-old truck driver died when he was struck by a 3,770-pound precast concrete panel that fell from a semi-truck trailer. |
Case 225 |
54-year-old road commission foreman died when he was run over by a backing 2004 Freightliner dump truck. |
Case 229 |
44-year-old roofer died from complications of a head injury sustained in 2008 when the jib of a 30-ton Grove truck crane fell and struck his head. |
Case 237 |
61-year-old male draftsman for a civil engineering firm was conducting survey work in a road's right of way when he was struck and killed by a vehicle. |
Case 24 |
18-year-old carpenter killed when 10-foot excavation wall collapsed burying him. |
Case 244 |
40-year-old male owner of a plumbing, heating and cooling company died when the 12-foot deep excavation he was working in collapsed. |
Case 249 |
50-year-old male carpenter for a home renovation company died when a 6-foot-long by 9-foot-high by 20-inch-wide masonry large boulders/fieldstone wall located in the basement of a 100-year-old home collapsed and fell onto him. |
Case 256 |
61-year-old brick mason died when he was struck by a collapsing 38-foot-high, 100-foot-long tubular welded scaffold that was overloaded with block |
Case 257 |
58-year-old equipment operator/laborer for an excavating and construction company was crushed when the walls of a trench collapsed while he was installing a sewer line to a home under construction. |
Case 289 |
57-year-old excavating crew supervisor died when he was crushed by a moving Volvo EC 360 excavator. |
Case 302 |
27-year-old road surveyor died when he was struck by a vehicle entering a work zone. |
Case 310 |
41-year-old carpenter died when the steel guardrail he was carrying was struck by a vehicle, causing him to be propelled into an outrigger of a nearby piece of equipment. |
Case 320 |
61-year-old co-owner of a concrete company died when he was struck by a vehicle backing out of a garage at a high rate of speed and dragged approximately 100 feet. |
Case 323 |
56-year-old public works laborer died when an 8-foot excavation wall collapsed while he was repairing a leaking water main. |
Case 324 |
33-year-old carpenter/laborer died from head injuries sustained when struck by a 3-inch by 0.131 smooth nail from a Model F350S Paslode nail gun. |
Case 337 |
25-year-old laborer for an excavation company died when he was backed over by a Takeuchi TL 130 skid steer. |
Case 341 |
45-year-old paver/construction laborer died due to compressional asphyxia when the raised truck bed on a 1986 Chevrolet utility dump truck he was working under came down and pinned him between the truck bed and truck chassis. |
Case 346 |
50-year old general construction laborer died when he was struck by a structural steel I-beam/guardrail assembly that fell from a flatbed trailer. |
Case 35 |
23-year-old millwright killed when a part he was unloading from the bed of a semi trailer fell onto him. |
Case 362 |
21-year-old roadway construction traffic regulator died when he was struck by a pickup truck operated by a motorist. |
Case 364 |
59-year-old excavating company owner died in a trench collapse. |
Case 365 |
42-year-old county road commission foreman died when he was run over by a Cat Model 140M2 road grader. |
Case 384 |
38-year-old supervisor died when a floor collapsed on top of him during demolition activities. |
Case 387 |
40-year-old labor/operator for a site preparation contractor died when he was struck by a JCB 214e Series 4 backhoe loader bucket when the backhoe loader slid down the bank of an excavation. |
Case 390 |
44-year-old Hispanic laborer died when he was struck by a van entering a highway work zone. |
Case 393 |
55-year-old tree helper/grounds person died when he was struck by a tree branch during a tree trimming operation at a golf course. |
Case 394 |
47-year-old Hispanic pipe layer died in a trench wall collapse. |
Case 397 |
62-year-old Caterpillar Model 320 excavator operator died when a 45-47 foot long, 25-inch diameter oak tree fell on the cab of the excavator. |
Case 399 |
42-year-old excavator operator was struck by a falling tree and died from complications of blunt head trauma. |
Case 40 |
35-year-old electrician was killed while changing lights in an overhead traffic signal when the boom supporting the vehicle-mounted aerial work platform he was working from was struck by a semi-truck. |
Case 400 |
45-year-old foreman of a sign hanger crew died while taking a picture of a finished business mileage sign. |
Case 443 |
38-year-old foreman died when he was crushed between an elevated aerial lift basket and a piece of angle iron. |
Case 454 |
39-year-old Hispanic owner of a landscape/paver business died when a saw kicked back and struck his neck. |
Case 480 |
54-year-old Hispanic landscaping laborer died when the roof of a carport/garage combination being demolished fell onto him. |
Case 481 |
30-year-old laborer died when a 7-8-foot deep trench wall collapsed. |
Case 491 |
20-year-old asphalt construction worker died when he was struck and run over by an asphalt truck driving in reverse. |
Case 492 |
57-year-old construction operating engineer died when he was struck by a vehicle entering the work zone during a night shift work operation. |
Case 493 |
48-year-old construction laborer died when he was struck by a 2" x 10" x 16' wood scaffold plank that fell from the roof of an eight-story building. |
Case 494 |
39-year-old laborer died in a trench collapse. |
Case 495 |
50-year-old construction laborer was struck by a cast iron plate at the end of a traveling grate spreader stoker chain being dismantled. |
Case 496 |
20-year-old drilling company technician died when he was struck by a vehicle while working in the front yard of a residence. |
Case 5 |
45-year-old grade checker died after being struck by a dump truck tailgate. |
Case 50 |
43-year-old craft foreman crane operator was killed when the butt section of the jib on a Manitowoc 250 Luffing crane fell on him. |
Case 511 |
44-year-old underground equipment locating field manager died when he was struck by a vehicle while taking a drilling depth measurement in an active roadway. |
Case 512 |
62-year-old journeyman electrician died when a 40-gang meter bank fell away from a wall and landed on him. |
Case 64 |
61-year-old inspector died when he was run over by large off-road dump truck at a roadway construction site. |
Case 68 |
73-year-old male construction laborer was killed when an unsupported concrete block wall collapsed onto him. |
Case 78 |
44-year-old laborer was killed when the scaffold platform he was working from fell, and the 183-pound hoist motor he had been using to raise and lower a corner of the platform fell on him. |
Case 82 |
18-year-old construction laborer died when a steel joist girder he was preparing to be lifted by a crane fell onto him. |
Case 93 |
24-year-old construction worker was buried when an excavation in which he was working collapsed onto him. |
Case 2022-003 |
35 year-old laborer dies after being struck by a bulldozer. |
Case 2022-013_014 |
Company Owner and Laborer Crushed in Trench Collapse |