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Lead Exposure at the Bunker Hill Mine and Smelter

This is clipped from the 1979 film, Working for Your Life (58 minutes, Labor Occupational Health Program Films) which explores the health and safety c...

Lead Palsy Wrist Drop

Lead is a potent, systemic poison that serves no known useful function once absorbed by your body. Taken in large enough doses, lead can kill you in a...

Radioactive Contaminated Turtles

At the Savannah River Department of Energy site near Aiken, South Carolina, USA, a 300-square-mile complex of streams, ponds, nuclear reactors, reproc...

Man and Sound 1965 DOD

Noise is not a new hazard. It has been a constant threat since the industrial revolution. Too much noise exposure may cause a temporary change in hear...

Mother describes loss of son in crane incident

In a 3-min. video, Diane Lillicrap explains how her son Steven, 21, was killed by a crane on a construction site in 2009. She discusses the crane stan...

Dangers of Hot Work

The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) has produced a video that details the importance of monitoring when doing hot work, as well as conducting hazard evalu...

Just Driving Down the Street - A Nail Gun Injury

Police officer tells his story about being shot in the eye by an errant nail fired from a nail gun more than 75 feet away while he was driving home fr...

Oregon OSHA Films Trench Collapse

Oregon OSHA worker approaches a work site with unsafe trench work occurring. While he's telling the workers what the problem is, the trench begins col...

Death in the Sierra

One-min. video from the Sacramento Bee: Salvador Cardenas talks about his friend Manuel Murillo, who died after being shot in the chest with a nail gu...

WATE 6 News report on the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program

WATE 6 News story highlights the Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed). The program provides medical screening to building trades...