Preventing Worker Fatalities: NIOSH releases new fact sheet to help reduce accidents

摘要

In Puerto Rico, a landscape worker was riding in the cargo compartment of a pickup truck when he fell from the moving vehicle to- the pavement. He hit his head, lost consciousness and died at the hospital four days later. In Florida, a landscape company employee was removing a large tree limb that had fallen onto the roof of a building during a storm. The limb, which was partially hanging off the roof, suddenly seesawed and knocked the employee to the ground. He fell approximately 17 feet, hit his head on the concrete sidewalk and died instantly.