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7 Workers Who Didn’t Make It Home

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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.

For Workers Memorial Week, National COSH released the report, which, among other things, chronicles the work fatalities of seven people who died on the job in 2014.



There were 4,585 direct workplace fatalities in 2013, and annually more than 50,000 people die from long-term exposure to hazardous substances like asbestos and silica, National COSH reported, using U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics information.

“More than 100 workers die every day from workplace traumatic injuries and long-term occupational exposures to toxic substances,” Executive director of National COSH Mary Vogel said in a statement. “We can reduce that number and send more people home safely to their families – if we hold corporate executives accountable with prosecution and higher penalties – and apply the prevention strategies that are proven to save lives.”

 
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