Weekly Toll: Death in the American Workplace Friday, June 19 (a couple dozen this week)

[Omaha Steve]

http://weeklytoll.blogspot.com/2009/06/weekly-toll-death-in-american-workplace_19.html

Student dies in tractor accident

June 14, Opelika, Alabama - A 23-year-old Moore’s Mill Golf Course employee died Sunday evening from injuries he sustained after the tractor he was driving tipped over, according to the Lee County Coroner’s office. Lee County Deputy Coroner Charlotte Patterson said Trenton McLeod, an Auburn University student from Prattville, was driving a tractor on the course at about 7 a.m. Sunday when he hit an embankment, causing the tractor to tip over and pin McLeod under the blower attached to the back of the tractor.


ConAgra Worker Laid To Rest

June 14, Raleigh, North Carolina - Family of Rachel Mae Poston Pulley walked out of the Springfield Baptist Church on Sunday holding each other, still too distraught to talk about her death. Pulley and two other workers died after an explosion at the ConAgra Plant in Garner on Tuesday, due to what federal investigators said was a natural gas leak.....Pulley died just four days before her 68th birthday, and is survived by six daughters and one son.

FULL story at link.