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A 27-year-old worker at a tree care company was struck and killed by a 38-pound tree branch.

A 28-year-old laborer was operating a horizontal drum industrial washing machine when he was crushed and killed.

A 46-year-old equipment operator working for a trenchless utility installation contractor died when a horizontal auger boring machine overturned and crushed him.

A laborer at a snow removal company was killed after being crushed between the lift arms and chassis of a small skid-steer loader.

A 23-year-old laborer was electrocuted, and two co-workers suffered severe shocks, when a 32-foot aluminum ladder on a platform hoist came in contact with energized overhead power lines.

A 52-year-old truck driver was struck and killed by a double-axle gravel train semi-tractor trailer.

A 62-year-old paint maker died from exposure to dichloromethane (methylene chloride) while using a paint stripper to clean the inside of a tank.

A 53-year-old female convenience store cook was working in an unopened store preparing donuts when a fire started near the entrance. She died of smoke inhalation.

A farm laborer in his 20s, standing in a pool of water in a potato field, was electrocuted and died when he touched the energized cross-brace of an operational self-propelled irrigation system.

A 61-year-old millwright with more than 30 years of experience was killed, and two others were injured, when trying to disassemble a hydraulic accumulator to rebuild it.