FACE Reports

A 34-year-old female firefighter was killed after being struck by a pickup truck on an icy interstate. The victim was a seven-year veteran firefighter, working as part of a crew dispatched to an accident.

A machine operator was killed while operating a palletizing machine at an ice cream manufacturing facility.

A 33-year-old window cleaner died after falling from an 8-foot stepladder.

A forklift/baler operator was killed after being crushed between the cage and the mast of the forklift he was operating. The victim was working the first shift at an envelope manufacturer.

A construction worker was killed after he fell off a collapsed, pre-cast concrete floor slab in a 10-story building construction site. The victim and a co-worker were working on the sixth floor, maneuvering the floor slabs into their final position before securing them to the steel framework.

A 17-year-old female laborer died after falling 26 feet from a residential roof onto a stone patio. The victim was working as part of a construction crew replacing the roof, unloading bales of roofing shingles from a construction box that was raised and attached to a forklift.

Two guardrail installers were killed after being struck by a heavy-duty guardrail that was suspended from a chain attached to the post-pulling jack of a truck-mounted post driver.

An adult male sustained fatal injuries when the crane boom he was disassembling buckled and crushed him. The victim was not an employee of the construction company that owned and operated the crane – he was a friend of the owner.

A 48-year-old shipyard welder was injured and later died from burns she sustained when her wire-fed welder ignited atomized hydraulic oil.

A driver was killed after being buried by mulch in his truck’s trailer at a solid waste dump site.