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