FACE Reports

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.

A 23-year-old roofer working from a boom lift died when he was crushed between a horizontal building beam and the lift platform.

A 64-year-old part-time truck operator died when his clothing became entangled in the drive train of a semi-truck tractor.

A 44-year-old apple orchard supervisor died when a tractor and an attached tank sprayer ran over him when he was making repairs to the sprayer.

A 58-year-old miner was crushed to death by the haul truck he had been driving.

In February 2010, a 68-year-old construction site supervisor and heavy equipment operator with 48 years of experience died when he was crushed between a bulldozer’s track and fender.

A 32-year-old journeyman mason died after falling from an unguarded working surface of a mobile scaffold.