Fatal Facts from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) web site (http://www.osha.gov). Click here for a direct link to the Fatal Facts listing.
Availability: The OSHA web site and the direct link are both active (as of May 2002).
The following case studies can be found in OSHA’s Fatal Facts listing on their website. The web site contains information on all of the OSHA standards and about OSHA itself. Additional information can be found under “Technical Manual.”
| A | Electrocutions during construction (Fatal Fact Number: 49, 40, 17, 57, 11) |
| B | Electrocutions during Ground Core sampling (Fatal Fact Number: 33) |
| C | Electrocutions during Power Line work (Fatal Fact Number: 28, 44) |
| D | Electrocutions during Electrical Maintenance (Fatal Fact Number: 30, 60) |
| E | Fatalities during excavation (Fatal Fact Number: 59, 41, 31, 55, 52, 61, 13) |
| F | Fatalities during confined space entry (Fatal Fact Number: 25, 36, 39) |
| G | Fatalities due to poor selection of materials (Fatal Fact Number: 8) |
| H | Fatalities due to Explosions (Fatal Fact Number: 72, 53, 3) |
| I | Fatalities due to Fire (Fatal Fact Number: 69) |
| J | Fatalities due to slips and falls, construction/demolition (Fatal Fact Number: 24, 47, 70) |
| K | Fatalities due to slips and falls (Fatal Fact Number: 14, 27) |
| L | Fatalities due to falling objects (Fatal Fact Number: 10) |
| M | Fatalities due to poor equipment maintenance (Fatal Fact Number: 45) |
| N | OSHA Technical Manual: Section IV: Chapter 4; Industrial Robots and Robot System Safety |
| O | Leg Partly Severed by Forklift Prong |