This image shows a worker stepping back from a job site area just moments after a heavy tool drops from an overhead platform and crashes onto the floor. No one is injured, but the impact is loud, and the worker freezes for a second, realizing how close the incident came to striking someone below. The area had no barricade, the tool wasn’t secured, and the task was being done quickly without a full hazard check. This is a near miss—an event that didn’t cause injury this time but easily could have. Near misses are not “lucky breaks.” They […]