More than one-third of the deaths each year attributed to forklifts are pedestrians. OSHA, on May 20, announced it had cited Nicholson Terminal & Dock Co. with nine violations, including two willful and seven serious. On Nov. 19, 2013, a worker was struck and killed by a 62,000-pound-capacity forklift carrying a 40,000-pound steel coil. As
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Read more →It’s been called America’s worst industrial disaster. The construction of a three-mile-long tunnel to carry the New River through Gauley Mountain in West Virginia cost as many as 2,000 workers their lives. At least 764 of the 1,213 men who worked underground at Hawks Nest for at least two months died within five years of
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