Workplace Fatalities: 20 Horrifying Stories of People Who Died on the Job

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This happens to me also. I figured out that if you link to one of those slideshow articles after you've read it, it links to the back page of it.

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Awesome stories! I witnessed a guy fall from a roof while doing roofing.

I couldnt stop laughing because he was convulsing on the ground and looked like he was break dancing. Crazy day!

Ooooohhhh if you can stomach it check out LiveLeak there are some really good vids of stuff like this there.

I dunno if that makes me evil or not. W/e

True story: several years ago, my sister worked in an office and one day her & another secretary/coworker were moving stuff out of a vacant office. There was a desk with one of those glass toppers (the big sheet of glass that sits on top of the desk surface to protect it), and they decided to move it on their own, so they each picked up an end. As they were carrying it, coworker's end slipped out of her hand, they dropped it, and naturally, the glass broke. A large shard flew up and hit coworker in the neck, and it hit a jugular vein. They called 911, but she bled to death before the ambulance could even get there. My sister and the other ladies in the office couldn't do anything to help her or stop the bleeding, and basically just had to sit there with her while she died. She was in her 20s, married and had 2 kids. Just going in to work at a regular job on a regular day, and some fucking crazy accident kills her.

My sister tried, but she couldn't continue working there after that, and she quit about a week later.

Is it gory? I can't handle gore.

OMG! How tragic. Poor lil gal.

When I was 20 I was pregnant with my son. I was working and going to school at Red Rocks Community College. There was a long corridor that had large glass windows on each side. It was like a long bridge with windows. One day I was standing on the bridge looking out the windows and talking to a friend. Then, this poor man who was working on the roof, fell off the roof and landed on his head. He broke his neck. We called the ambulance. They got there quickly. We watched them work on the poor guy - but sadly he passed away. It took me years to get over seeing that. I felt so bad for the poor man and his family. I still think about them every now and then.

Yeah. Liveleak has other amazing vids that aren't, though. And they have a filter that asks you to click continue before a vid you don't want to see plays.

Both my father and grandfather were pipe fitters and were on the Prudential Tower job in Boston back in the '70's. An ironworker fell 20-30 stories down an elevator shaft and landed right near where my grandfather was welding. On a different job my father lost a couple of his crew when they were working in a trench removing a future cap that they thought was safe to remove, but it had high pressure steam behind it. Both of them were roasted before they knew what hit them. I've had a couple of close calls myself. You never know what kind of situation you might find yourself in in this sort of trade.


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I read that story as Moose at first, then I was like what? a moose ran up his sleeve..