A 62-year-old man was crushed to death by a machine at the Nabisco Biscuit Co. on the Southwest Side, officials said. Patrick Lynch, of the 9300 block of South Parkside in Oak Lawn was pronounced dead at 3 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
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Workplace fatalities decline with number of jobs
The number of workers who died on the job fell by 17 percent last year to the lowest level in nearly two decades, as workers logged fewer hours during the recession, the Labor Department said Thursday.
The 4,340 workplace fatalities recorded in 2009 was the smallest total since the Bureau of Labor Statistics first began tracking the data in 1992. It’s the second straight year that fatal work injuries have reached a historic low, following a 10 percent drop in 2008. Get the full story »
