Killed on the Job: True Stories of Workplace Fatalities And How They Can Be Prevented

When a young husband and father said goodbye to his family to go to work on a February morning, he could not have guessed he would never come home again. He reported for work as usual at the housewares manufacturing plant in his town. Shortly after he started his shift, he tried to remove an obstruction in a plastic molding machine. He got caught in the machine and was crushed to death. Horrified workers had pulled him from the machine by the time the ambulance crew and fire department arrived with the Jaws of Life. But the 25-year-old victim had no chance of surviving. He won’t be coming home to his wife and three children – ever again. More than 5,000 similar sad stories are told each year in the United States. Workers are crushed by machines, hit by moving vehicles and burned by chemicals. They tumble from scaffolds and suffocate in utility tunnels. They leave behind grieving co-workers, friends and families.