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| In Japan, nearly 2,000 workers still die annually from industrial accidents
and the number of serious accidents in which 3 or more people suffer death/injury
tops 200. In fact, many of these accidents are similar to the past incidents in their nature. Therefore, we need to take full preventive measures against repeating those tragic accidents by case-studying the past incidents. In light of this, we've decided to describe on this page cases of industrial accidents occurred in Japan including their summaries and leading causes. |
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 No.113 |
A worker is killed by electric shock when he touches the charged part of
an electrode holder (English) |
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| No.112 |
A worker is killed by electric shock while replacing the ballast in a fluorescent
light panel (English) |
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| No.111 |
A worker is killed by electric shock when he touches the switch of high-voltage
power-receiving facility at an auto-repair garage (English) |
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| No.110 |
A worker is caught by a rotary panel during cleaning work near a machine
that manufactures exterior wall materials for residential use (English) |
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| No.109 |
A worker is caught between the screed, which had descended, and the surface
of the road during work to clean an asphalt finisher (English) |
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| No.108 |
A worker walking on a cargo pile of rounded steel bars is killed when the
pile falls over, catching the head of the worker (English) |
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| No.107 |
During unloading operations by a forklift at a delivery site, the forklift
overturns and falls on the victim (English) |
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| No.106 |
A worker is caught between the stanchions designed to support the netting
at a golf driving range during work to reposition the stanchions (English) |
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| No.105 |
A worker is caught in forklift mast during work to repair shutter in a
warehouse (English) |
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| No.104 |
Fall while adjusting the sliding door for ventilation from the fork of
a forklift (English) |
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| No.103 |
The edge of a trench suddenly collapses during work to inspect an excavated
sewage trench (English) |
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| No.102 |
The sides of an excavation trench collapse during work to remove earth
that had fallen into the trench at the construction site of an agricultural
drainage channel (English) |
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| No.101 |
Worker was hit by a rock thrown up by the root of a tree that was uprooted
when a cut tree fell against it (English) |
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| No.100 |
Run over when a dump truck stopped on sloping ground starts to move (English) |
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| No.99 |
The coupling clamp of a hanging chain breaks and falls while a wire rope is being wound up during bridge construction work (English) |
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| No.98 |
A worker is struck by a load lifting attachment on cargo hoisting equipment
during work to unload lumber in hold (English) |
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| No.97 |
The operator of a drag shovel is crushed by running
into a beam during work to improve a sewage channel (English) |
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| No.96 |
A refrigerator truck runs into a working section where paving work is being
carried out and knocks down the workers (English) |
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| No.95 |
A worker is run over by a tire roller with a broken
brake during road paving and maintenance work (English) |
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| No.94 |
Large truck smashes into an elevated work vehicle being used to install
roadway lighting fixtures (English) |
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| No.93 |
Caught by jib being dismantled from a mobile crane (English) |
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| No.92 |
Gondola falls while being lifted by mobile crane (English) |
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| No.91 |
Mobile crane topples over during bridge construction work (English) |
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| No.90 |
Caught between the cargo elevator cage and the floor (English) |
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| No.89 |
Worker cleaning a hold crushed by falling cargo during work to unload lumber
by cargo hoisting equipment (English) |
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| No.88 |
Crushed under falling logs during work to unload logs from a ship by mobile
crane (English) |
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| No.87 |
Cage of cargo elevator falls while work is being carried out in the pit
to repair cargo elevator that stopped during its descent (English) |
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| No.86 |
Jib collapses during disinfection work for fishes by using a crane-mounted
boat at an aquaculture pond (English) |
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| No.85 |
Truck crane topples while trying to unload a drag shovel from the truck
crane (English) |
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| No.84 |
Wheel crane toppled when outriggers sank into soft ground during lifting
operations (English) |
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| No.83 |
Fall together with drag shovel during work to load volcanic ash (English) |
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| No.82 |
Fall from mobile crane bucket during descending (English) |
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| No.81 |
Fall while moving a ladder during work to prune Japanese cedars (English) |
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| No.80 |
Fall from a cable crane bucket during retaining wall construction (English) |
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| No.79 |
Fall from the second-floor ceiling beam during the construction of a new
wooden house (English) |
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| No.78 |
Fall into a hole excavated by earth auger (English) |
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| No.77 |
Fall because the hook of the safety belt rope came off from its mounting
during assembly of steel power transmission tower (English) |
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| No.76 |
Fall from a toppling utility pole during removal of temporary electric
wire (English) |
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| No.75 |
Fall during assembly of suspended scaffold for bridge painting (English) |
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| No.74 |
Fall during tiling the roof of a new house (English) |
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| No.73 |
Fatal blood loss after cutting the femoral artery by a portable circular
saw at a construction site for shield work (English) |
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| No.72 |
Fatal heat stroke during work to process industrial waste (English) |
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| No.71 |
Fall from utility pole due to electric shock while inspecting high-voltage
power receiving equipment (English) |
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| No.70 |
Electric shock caused by mobile crane boom coming into contact with high-voltage
line while hoisting containers (English) |
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| No.69 |
Electrocuted while trying to remove a PT fuse by the naked hand in a building
electrical room (English) |
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| No.68 |
Caught in between a building wall and an aerial platform while operating
the platform (English) |
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| No.67 |
Caught in between the bucket and machine body during drag shovel dismantling
work (English) |
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| No.66 |
Hit by a falling hammer during the assembling of a pile driver (English) |
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| No.65 |
Drawn into the mixer while cleaning a concrete pump vehicle (English) |
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| No.64 |
Caught between the bucket of a drag shovel and the vertical steel sheeting
in a shaft (English) |
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| No.63 |
Steel plate slipped free of wire hook while the plate was unloaded from
truck using a drag shovel (English) |
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| No.62 |
Concrete injection hose swang out of control, knocking the victim onto
steel reinforcing rods (English) |
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| No.61 |
Fall and hit by a roll of tin-plated sheet metal at plastic greenhouse
installation (English) |
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| No.60 |
Overcome by anoxia while working in a shaft to confirm the nature of the
soil (English) |
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| No.59 |
Methyl bromide poisoning while cleaning a grain silo (English) |
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| No.58 |
Operator fell and killed when drag shovel toppled from road by collapsing
shoulder (English) |
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| No.57 |
Crushed by falling bags piled in a warehouse (English) |
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| No.56 |
Victim crushed when machine slipped off a jack (English) |
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| No.55 |
Rockslide when installing safety netting on a steep slope (English) |
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| No.54 |
Fatality caused by landslide while digging a sewer trench (English) |
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| No.53 |
Fatal injury caused by fall of empty pallets being stacked by forklift (English) |
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| No.52 |
Worker killed in fall from forklift pallet (English) |
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| No.51 |
Anoxia during scaffolding work to repair the intake pit at a garbage disposal
site (English) |
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| No.50 |
Two victims and a rescuer suffered from anoxia in a sewerage system manhole (English) |
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| No.49 |
Insecticide spouted from a spraying nozzle during preparatory work after
pouring insecticide into a sprayer tank (English) |
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| No.48 |
Chlorine gas poisoning at drinking water facilities (English) |
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| No.47 |
Acute organic solvent poisoning while washing the inside of a drum with
toluene (English) |
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| No.46 |
Anoxia fatality during hatch-opening work following lumber fumigation in
a ship's cargo hold (English) |
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| No.45 |
All workers suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning during dishwashing
work in a hotel kitchen (English) |
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| No.44 |
Inhaling ethylene oxide gas during sterilization work in a hospital (English) |
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| No.43 |
Explosion inside a tank during wastewater system repair work (English) |
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| No.42 |
A hoist came off the rail when a ladle was being moved by a floor operated
overhead crane, and a worker was covered with the molten metal (English) |
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| No.41 |
Explosion due to abnormal reaction in the refining process for explosive
materials (English) |
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| No.40 |
Explosion at surface treatment furnace for automobile components (English) |
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| No.39 |
Dust explosion when flour was fed into a storage hopper by air pressure
(English) |
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| No.38 |
Tank explosion due to a chemical reaction because the hose of a tank truck
was connected to the wrong flange (English) |
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| No.37 |
A guard was crushed by a road roller during road paving work |
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| No.36 |
A dump truck jumped the median strip and crashed into a van in the opposite
lane (English) |
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| No.35 |
Hit by an express train while painting a protective fence at a crossing
barrier (English) |
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| No.34 |
The cargo bed descended during repair work under a dump truck bed (English) |
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| No.33 |
Fatality due to heatstroke during lead ingot manufacturing at a smelting
furnace (English) |
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| No.32 |
Worker crushed to death by an iron plate that was dislodged by pile driver
crawler (English) |
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| No.31 |
Worker killed by a tree falling from the roadsideduring lumber collecting
work (English) |
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| No.30 |
Worker killed by a chain saw during tree felling work (English) |
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| No.29 |
Worker killed by being struck by a punch (English) |
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| No.28 |
Trapped by a belt conveyor while trying to retrieve a dropped tool during
periodic incinerator inspection and repair work (English) |
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| No.27 |
Worker killed when muck car broke free from battery-powered locomotive
and ran out of control at the tunnel construction site. (English) |
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| No.26 |
Collapse of hardened block of cement during operations to break it up (English) |
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| No.25 |
Buried by urea while unclogging a belt conveyer hopper (English) |
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| No.24 |
Crushed by collapse of casting sand flexible-containers (English) |
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| No.23 |
Trapped by a belt conveyor while trying to retrieve a dropped tool during
periodic incinerator inspection and repair work (English) |
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| No.22 |
Caught between the truck and the bucket of a drag shovel while carrying
out work to unload steel panels (English) |
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| No.21 |
Caught between the dredge counterweight and a winch guard during dredging
work to improve a fishing port (English) |
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| No.20 |
Shoring being dismantled at an excavation site slipped while it was being
lifted by mobile crane, crushing the victim between the shoring and the
concrete structure (English) |
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| No.19 |
Overturning of a crane-mounted truck while carrying out work to load steel
plate (English) |
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| No.18 |
Support wires used in work to install pre-stressed concrete lattice girders
snapped during work to assemble movable shoring (English) |
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| No.17 |
Logs falling from a barker table during work using an overhead traveling
crane to hoist logs into position for processing (English) |
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| No.16 |
Caught in machinery because of the sudden movement of a stopped trolley
hopper at an asphalt mixer (English) |
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| No.15 |
Caught between the cage of a cargo elevator and the underside of the second
floor at a fish processing plant (English) |
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| No.14 |
Falling along with the elevator cage resulting from a snapped cable on
a cargo elevator (English) |
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| No.13 |
Falling along with a steel frame during work to load steel frames onto
the cargo bed of a truck (English) |
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| No.12 |
Caught between plug table and unit frame during repair work on a plastic
molding machine (English) |
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| No.11 |
Fall through an opening while unloading steel rods from the cargo bed of
a truck that had delivered the materials to a subway construction site (English) |
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| No.10 |
Organic solvent poisoning during work to remodel a used tank (English) |
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| No.9 |
Electrocuted while removing dust in the electrical distribution room of
a hotel (English) |
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| No.8 |
Fire broke out in a Thai restaurant when the owner was trying to lay carpet
by himself (English) |
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| No.7 |
Electrocuted while repairing semi-conductor manufacturing equipment (English) |
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| No.6 |
Operator crushed by suddenly descending forklift container while trying
to remove a piece of wood caught between the lift cylinders (English) |
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| No.5 |
Chemical burns to skin by contact with high-density raw liquid phenol while
taking countermeasures against abnormal reactions in the synthesizing reaction
process for phenol (English) |
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| No.4 |
Skin exposure to hazardous radioactivity during X-ray leakage tests (English) |
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| No.3 |
A reaction vessel burst due to a sudden increase in its internal pressure
as a result of abnormal reactions during the process producing intermediate
pharmaceutical products (English) |
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| No.2 |
Paper dust ignited during repair work milling room of a paper manufacturing
plant (English) |
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| No.1 |
A forklift operator was caught between the mast and the head guard while
trying to straighten a loose load (English) |
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