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Reports from the NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program

FACEValue: Equipment operator dies after zero-turn mower overturns

March 29, 2020

A 57-year-old equipment operator was killed while mowing grass at a municipality-owned pump station.

February 23, 2020

A 61-year-old truck driver died after he was thrown back onto a concrete floor when air was released from a pressurized tire sidewall failure.

January 26, 2020

A medical information technology consultant was driving in the far-right lane of a six-lane interstate when he crashed his vehicle.

December 20, 2019

About 9 p.m. on the day of the incident, a 45-year-old police officer on patrol drove into floodwater that had overtaken the road.

November 24, 2019

On the day of the incident, two tower climbers were killed when a 340-foot cellular tower collapsed during upgrading and construction activities.

October 27, 2019

A 61-year-old dump truck owner-operator was electrocuted when his vehicle came in contact with an overhead power line.

September 22, 2019

A 45-year-old warehouse dock coordinator at a water bottling company died after he was crushed by the forks of an automated laser-guided vehicle.

August 25, 2019

A 46-year-old farm mechanic was killed in a plasma torch explosion.

July 28, 2019

A 29-year-old construction worker was killed when the trench he was in collapsed.

June 23, 2019

A 50-year-old roofer died when he fell 18 feet from a residential roof.