Hospital workers are certainly not unaccustomed to death, but when a fellow worker dies in an incident there, shock waves reverberate throughout the facility. Of course, a healthcare workplace isn't really any different from any other settings. Workers can trip, fall, be exposed to deadly chemicals or moving machinery. The food service, office, maintenance and medical areas all have worker hazards. So does the laundry facility, as illustrated by this fatality investigation report: A 28-year-old man who was loading sheets in to a large industrial washing machine died after being pulled into a rotating drum. The worker and his supervisor had previously loaded […]