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Industrial and Construction
Accidents
Introduction
Industrial accidents can take many forms in very diverse industries. ese industries
include mining, manufacturing, construction, farming, maritime, logging, and other
specialties. In this chapter we are concerned with incidents involving humans and with
losses involving the equipment. However, it is safe to say that the majority of industrial
incidents involving injury or death to employees also involve some sort of mechanized
equipment. Afailure of the mechanized equipment may be responsible for creating the
incident although that is not always the case. Consequently, the role of the equipme ...