Could This Have Been You? On average, 5,000 to 6,000 workers are killed each year. Learn from the following reports of real workplace fatalities to avoid a similar fate. A 35-year-old paving crew worker was killed when caught between a trailer and a piece of equipment. He was working between an asphalt machine which is about 60 feet (18 meters) long, and a dump truck with a trailer. He was a member of a three-person crew working as spotters for the machine. The crew was removing asphalt from the road surface. The victim was walking between the machine and the dump, when the […]