Worker Safety
Catherine Rylatt on Protecting Young Workers from Tragedy
Im here today to talk about an incident that happened in Mt. Carroll its a small town in northwestern Illinois where my 19-year-old nephew, Alex Pacas, was engulfed in grain and suffocated, along with 14-year-old Wyatt Whitebread. Read more...
Debi Koehler-Fergen on the Importance of Workplace Safety Standards
I lost my 26 year old son, Travis Wayne Koehler, to a workplace accident that should never have happened. It was completely preventable. Read more...
Diane Lillicrap on the Importance of Workplace Safety Standards
My son Steven was 21 years old when he was involved in a fatal injury in St. Louis. He was working for a contractor at the time, he was disassembling a 100-ton crawler crane. Read more...
Holly Shaw-Hollis on the Importance of Workplace Safety Protections
On September 7, 2002, my husband Scott Shaw was working on a barge on the Schuylkill River, in Philadelphia. He was walking from one barge to another, on old tires, with no life vest and fell in. Read more...
Jennifer Ornelas and Katherine Rodriguez on the Importance of Workplace Safety
Our father, Ray Gonzalez, died on September 2, 2004, in a work-related incident. He and two other coworkers were on a scaffold, working on a water pump, when the seal on the pump ruptured, and all three of them were severely burned. My father Ray had second and third-degree burns... Read more...
Marychris Rodriguez on the Crucial Nature of Workplace Safety Protections
I am speaking on behalf of my son, Vicente Rodriguez. On May 20, 2009 my son was hired by subcontractor to do the load out for the Tom Jones show inside a theater at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. Read more...
Tonya Ford on the Importance of Workplace Safety Protections
Im speaking for twenty-five nieces and nephews for my uncle Bobby. He was employed and fell from a belt-operated man-lift on January 29th 2009. Read more...
Wendy Shurelds on the Crucial Nature of Workplace Safety Protections
My mom, Yvonne Shurelds, died at DTR Industries in Bluffton, Ohio, operating a lift truck and she was not properly trained to operate a lift truck. It was not part of her regular job duties she was told that she had to operate this lift truck due to... Read more...