Worker Dies After Eight-Foot Fall In the first fatality for his company, a North Carolina worker died after a fall from a truck bed. The victim, a 48-year-old Hispanic man, was packing construction debris into a single-axle five-ton dump truck. The crew foreman used a front-end loader with a clamp attachment to pile debris in the truck bed. The foreman spoke mostly English while the crew spoke primarily Spanish. The employer had no health and safety or training program. On the day of the incident, the victim and a co-worker were standing in the truck bed, about eight feet up, taking material […]
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