7 Workers Who Didn’t Make It Home
There were 4,585 direct workplace fatalities in 2013, and annually more than 50,000 people die from long-term exposure to hazardous substances.
Six hours into his 12-hour shift at a molding company in Michigan, Erik Deighton, 23, was crushed to death by a stamping machine.
He was trying to clear an obstruction in the machine, when it cycled to stamp a part.
Deighton’s death was preventable, had Colonial Plastics invested in modern machine guarding technology that would have kept the machine from running while a worker was near, the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health said in its “Not An Accident: Preventable Deaths 2015” report.
