The following tables contain links to fatality investigation reports
of incidents where young workers under the age of eighteen were
killed. The first table contains a list of cases investigated by
NIOSH; the second table contains a list of cases investigated by
state investigators in state FACE programs.
| 86-27 |
Part-time Laborer Electrocuted in Ohio |
| 86-32 |
General Laborer Electrocuted in North Carolina |
| 88-35 |
Assistant Pool Manager Electrocuted |
| 89-46 |
Five Family Members Die After Entering
Manure Waste Pit on Dairy Farm |
| 92-32 |
Commercial Fisherman Drowned After Fishing
Vessel Capsized—Alaska |
| 96-19 |
Sixteen-year-old Electrical-Contractor
Laborer Electrocuted—Texas |
| 98-15 |
9-Year-Old Child Helping With Blueberry
Harvest Dies After Being Run Over by Cargo Truck on Field Road |
| 98-16 |
Roofer Helper Dies After Falling 16½ Feet
From Roof to Concrete Basement Way—Kansas |
| 99-02 |
Youth Dies in Trench Collapse—Arizona |
| 99-05 |
15-year-old Campground Laborer Dies After
Striking a Camper Trailer Hitch While Operating a Utility Vehicle—Ohio
|
| 99-06 |
16-Year-Old Ride Attendant Dies After Being
Caught and Dragged By Amusement Park Ride—Connecticut |
| 2000-03 |
Youth Laborer Dies in Trench Collapse—Michigan
|
| 2000-04 |
Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Dies After a
Stored Piece of Hoisting Apparatus Fell on Him at an Automobile Repossession
Yard—Pennsylvania |
| 2000-06 |
Sixteen-Year-Old Farmworker Dies in a Cotton
Packing Machine After Being Covered with a Load of Cotton —Georgia |
| 2000-07 |
Three Tower Painters Die After Falling
1,200 Feet When Riding the Hoist Line—North Carolina |
| 2000-08 |
Seventeen-Year-Old Window Washer Dies After
Falling 180 Feet Due to a Rigging Anchor Failure—Pennsylvania |
| 2000-09 |
Sixteen-Year-Old Laborer At a Building
Supply Center Crushed by Forklift That Tipped Over—Ohio |
| 2000-14 |
Sixteen-Year-Old Mechanic’s Assistant Died
After Being Run Over By the Rear Wheels of a Tub Grinder —Connecticut |
| 2000-16 |
A 16-year-old Died After Falling 27 Feet
at a Residential Construction Site—Alabama |
| 2000-17 |
17-year-old Lifeguard Dies After Falling
Into a Nearly Empty Swimming Pool |
| 2000-18 |
A 15-Year-Old Male Farm Laborer Dies After
the Tractor He was Operating Overturned Into a Manure Pit—Pennsylvania |
| 2000-19 |
Sixteen-Year-Old Produce-Market Worker
Dies From Crushing Injuries After Being Caught in a Vertical Downstroke
Baler—New York |
| 2000-21 |
Fourteen-Year-Old Youth Pulled Into Operating
Wood Chipper—Florida |
| 2000-22 |
Seventeen-Year-Old Laborer at Salvage Lumber
Operation Crushed by Forklift That Tipped Over—New York |
| 2000-23 |
A 16-Year-Old Roofer Helper Dies After
28-Foot Fall Down an Unguarded Elevator Shaft Opening—Pennsylvania |
| 2001-04 |
Fifteen-Year-Old Laborer Dies After Falling
Through a Skylight—Florida |
| 2001-07 |
Fourteen-Year-Old Laborer Dies After Falling
Through a Skylight—Alabama |
| 2001-10 |
Seventeen-Year-Old Part-Time Road Construction
Laborer Dies After Being Run Over by a Water Truck—Indiana |
| 2001-13 |
Fourteen-Year-Old Rental Equipment Worker
Dies from Asphyxiation After Becoming Entangled in an Electric Chain
Hoist—Colorado |
| 2002-02 |
Seventeen-Year-Old Warehouse Laborer Dies
After the Forklift He Was Operating Tipped Over and Crushed Him—Arizona |
| 2002-10 |
Youth Farm Worker Dies After Falling Into
Operating Feed Grinder/Mixer—Ohio |
| 2003-07 |
Two Hispanic Construction Laborers (Ages
Fifteen and Sixteen) Die After Trench Collapse—South Carolina |
| 2003-13 |
18-year-old Dies After Being Entangled
In A Portable Mortar Mixer—South Carolina |
| 2004-03 |
Seventeen-Year-Old High School Student
Working as a Warehouse Laborer in Work-Based Learning Program Dies
After Forklift Tips Over and Crushes Him—Tennessee |
| 2004-06 |
Sixteen-Year-Old Hispanic Youth Dies After Falling
From A Job-Made Elevated Work Platform During Construction—South Carolina |
| 2004-08 |
Fifteen-Year-Old Hispanic Youth Dies After Entering the
Hopper of a Bark Blower—Maryland |
| 2005-05 |
Hispanic Youth Dies in Densifier at a Plastics Recycling Plant—Tennessee (Revised September 6, 2006) |
| 01AK027 |
AK |
A 14-year-old Laborer Crushed Under 5-ton
Beam |
| 92CA017 |
CA |
Courtesy clerk at grocery store falls from
a ladder and dies in California |
| 04CA007 |
CA |
A Youth Dies When a Forklift Rolls Over on Him |
| 05CA005 |
CA |
A 17-year-old Hispanic Laborer Died when Crushed by Concrete and Stone Castings |
| 94CO006 |
CO |
17-year-old Worker at a Plastic Products
Manufacturing Plant Died as a Result of an Overexposure to Tetrachloroethylene
(also known as Perchloroethylene) |
| 95CO054 |
CO |
A Car Wash Employee is Electrocuted While
Working on Equipment |
| 95IA021 |
IA |
Youth falls from ladder and dies while
changing light bulb -- Iowa |
| 95IA009 |
IA |
12 Year Old Boy Dies from a Tractor Rollover
in a Roadside Ditch |
| 99IA003 |
IA |
Youth Farm Worker is Killed when He Becomes
Entangled in PTO Driveline of an Old Grinder-mixer |
| 03IA020 |
IA |
Teenager Dies in Tractor Overturn When
Home-Made Rollbar Fails |
| 04IA017 |
IA |
12-Year-Old Farm Boy Dies While Hitching Up Hay Wagon |
| 04IA019 |
IA |
Farm Boy Dies in ATV Rollover While Helping Father Chop Silage |
| 00KY119 |
KY |
15-Year-Old Dies in Utility Golf Cart Overturn
|
| 01KY062 |
KY |
Youth Riding as Passenger on Tractor Killed
by Overturn |
| 94MA008 |
MA |
Massachusetts Newspaper Boy Dies When Struck
By a Van While Crossing The Street On His Bicycle |
| 94MA016 |
MA |
Massachusetts Newspaper Girl Dies After
Being Struck By a Jeep While Delivering Her Route From a Bicycle |
| 96MA031 |
MA |
Construction Laborer Crushed by Unattended
Rolling Street Sweeper at Asphalt Plant in Massachusetts |
| 97MA031 |
MA |
Construction Laborer Dies In Trench Cave-In
At Oil Tank Removal Site in Massachusetts |
| 00MA050 |
MA |
Youth Killed While Driving Golf Cart at
Country Club - Massachusetts |
| 00MA058 |
MA |
Massachusetts Youth Killed While Operating
Forklift at Seafood Processing Facility |
| 03MA034 |
MA |
Youth Killed while Operating a Forklift at a Plumbing Supply Company |
04MA2NF
(Injury) |
MA |
A 17-Year-Old Student Severely Injures Leg on a Construction Site While
Working at a Steel Erection Company as Part of a Cooperative Work Experience |
06MA1NF
(Injury) |
MA |
Two 10th Grade Students Injured in Separate Incidents in the Same Mill/Carpentry Vocational School Shop |
| 03MI052 |
MI |
Farm Youth Died When He Became Entangled
in an Unguarded PTO Shaft |
| 04MI176 |
MI |
6-Year-Old Youth Dies When He Was Run Over by a Skid-Steer Loader
Driven by His 9-Year-Old Brother |
| 92MN009 |
MN |
Landscape Laborer Dies After Being Struck
By The Bucket Of A Case Skid Steer Loader |
| 94MN030 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Being Crushed by
a "run away" Chopper Wagon |
| 94MN039 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Tractor He was Driving
Rolled Over on Him |
| 94MN041 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Tractor He was Driving
Rolled Over on Him |
| 95MN045 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Being Engulfed In
Corn Inside A Steel Grain Bin |
| 95MN046 |
MN |
Farmer Youth Dies After Being Struck By
A Loader Bucket |
| 97MN038 |
MN |
Farmer Youth Dies After Being Run Over
By A Grass Seeder |
| 98MN044 |
MN |
Laborer Dies After Being Crushed By Caterpillar
That Fell From Railroad Trestle |
| 00MN029 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Falling From And
Being Run Over By Tractor in Minnesota |
| 05MN010 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Becoming Entangled In the Unloading
Beaters of a Forage Wagon |
| 05MN036 |
MN |
Farm Youth Dies After Becoming Entangled In the Unloading Beaters
of a Forage Wagon |
| 99MO022 |
MO |
Eleven-Year-Old Farm-Boy Dies Following
Tractor Accident |
| 00MO063 |
MO |
Child Laborer Electrocuted While Working
At Sawmill in Missouri |
| 98NE029 |
NE |
Tractor Overturn Kills Temporary Worker |
| 99NE028 |
NE |
Farm Youth Suffocated in Corn Bin |
| 01NE026 |
NE |
Youth Landscaper Pinned Underneath Front
End Loader |
| 01NJ118 |
NJ |
15-Year-Old Youth Crushed While Cleaning
a Dough Mixing Machine |
| 02NJ021 |
NJ |
17-Year-Old Pizza Delivery Driver Killed
in a Motor Vehicle Accident |
| 98OK025 |
OK |
Farm Worker Dies of Burn-Related Injuries
while Trapped in a Burning Hay Baler - Oklahoma |
| 00OK037 |
OK |
A 17-year Old Laborer for a Boat Dock Construction
Company Drowned While Attempting to Swim Approximately 35 Yards to
Shore from a Construction Barge in Oklahoma |
| 00OK045 |
OK |
A 17-year Old on a Hay Hauling Crew Died
from Injuries Received When He Fell from a Moving Hay Truck and was
Apparently Run Over by the Vehicle's Tire in Oklahoma |
| 01OK076 |
OK |
A 13-year-old Construction Laborer Died
When He Fell From A Scaffold Board and Struck A Scaffold Cross-brace |
| 01OK10/13/01 |
OK |
A Bowling Facility Worker Died When He Was Caught in a
Pinsetter Machine |
| 04OK046 |
OK |
Hispanic Youth Laborer Died After Being Struck by Lightning |
| 03OR020 |
OR |
Young Camp Counselor Killed When Cannon
Bursts To Pieces |
| 98WA113 |
WA |
Fifteen-Year-Old Worker Falls from Roof
of Building in Washington State |
| 99WA056 |
WA |
Tractor Overturn Kills 16-Year-Old Farm
Worker in Washington State |
| 98WI074 |
WI |
Youth Worker Dies After Being Pinned Under
Tractor at a Food Processing Plant |
| 00WI012 |
WI |
Youth Restaurant Cashier Shot to Death
During Attempted Robbery |
| 00WI025 |
WI |
Youth Farm Worker Pinned Under Overturned
Horse-Drawn Manure Sled |
| 00WI048 |
WI |
Youth Newspaper Delivery Person Killed
When he Fell out of the Open Door of a Minivan and was Run Over --
Wisconsin |
| 00WI080 |
WI |
Youth Camp Counselor Dies of Carbon Monoxide
Poisoning |
| 00WI106 |
WI |
Youth Newspaper Delivery Assistant Dies
in Motor Vehicle Collision |
| 01WI002 |
WI |
Youth Reserve Recruit Killed in Automobile
Collision While Traveling on Duty |
| 02WI058 |
WI |
Youth Killed in Tractor Roll-Over While
Moving Large Hay Bales |
| 03WI020 |
WI |
Youth Newspaper Carrier Dies after Being Struck by an Automobile
While Delivering Newspapers on a Bicycle |
| 03WI033 |
WI |
Youth Dies in Tractor Rollover Attempting to Pull Trailer Out of Mud |
| 92WY013 |
WY |
Sheepherder Struck by Lightning in Wyoming
|
Youth Fatality Investigation Reports