Killed by machinery

Please add Geni profiles of those killed accidentally by contact with a machine.

From The 25 most common causes of death

• 20: Contact with machinery. Odds of dying: 1 in 5,189

People with arachnophobia should know that they are almost 200 times more likely to die from contact with machinery than contact with venomous spiders, where the odds are almost 1 in a million. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, types of machinery likely to cause injury or death include heating, cooling and cleaning, construction, logging, mining and special materials machinery.

resources

• "Death by Machinery" Scientific American, Nov. 20, 1852
• OSHA common stats
• Worker fatalities from being caught in machinery
• Farm deaths
  • "Tractor rollovers. Grain suffocation. Deadly fumes. Goring. Electrocution. Heatstroke. Smith’s incident is scary but in no way unique: Farming is one of the deadliest professions in the world."

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