The fuel arrived at a sensitive time, following the major nuclear accident at Tokaimura nuclear plant which killed one worker and exposed hundreds to radioactive fall-out.
In 1978 an explosion at the Hackberry, La. complex that holds oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve killed one worker and burned for days with a fireball that billowed dozens of feet in the air.
Two deadly collapses in 2008 spurred reforms and even criminal charges, but another crane fell and killed a worker in the city just this past April, at a subway construction site largely exempt from city safety rules.
Hundreds of people greeted the widow of a World Trade Center worker killed in the attacks when she travelled to his home in Imphal, India with her son to join Hindu prayers traditionally held one year after a death.
Last month, a WFP aid worker was killed in Somalia after being abducted during an off-duty weekend visit to his home in Dinsor.
The petition was launched on the Avaaz online campaign website last month by the brother of a worker who killed himself earlier this year.
He said one person, later identified as an electoral worker, was killed when the helicopter was struck by anti-aircraft fire.
These were the headlines in the winter of 1992 when I was part of a team of counselors who debriefed more than 8, 000 employees of General Dynamics after a disgruntled worker shot and killed a fellow employee and gravely wounded another.
In the past 18 months one person in Israel, a Thai farm worker, has been killed by a rocket fired from Gaza.
The six killed in Buenos Aires included a subway worker who was electrocuted and an elderly woman who drowned inside her home.
On top of the starvation deaths, last November two hungry tigers at the zoo were shot and killed by police trying to save a mauled worker.
Among those attending Tuesday's meeting were the family of Margaret Hassan, the British aid worker who was taken hostage and killed in Iraq in 2004.
At St Joseph Church in Medford, north-west of Boston, a private funeral was being held for 29-year-old restaurant worker Krystle Campbell, who was killed at the marathon finish line after going to watch the race with a friend.
Killed along with Brokaw in the Afghanistan crash were maintenance worker Gary Stockdale, 51, of Romulus, Mich.
The following year, a French aid worker, 78-year old Michel Germaneau, was killed as French commandos tried to rescue him.
The disaster is the worst ever for Bangladesh's booming and powerful garment industry, surpassing a fire five months ago that killed 112 people and brought widespread pledges to improve the country's worker-safety standards.
U.S. officials say Saudi exile Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda organization are the prime suspects in last week's attacks that may have killed more than 5, 000 people -- including a Pentagon civilian worker who died Tuesday of injuries suffered when a hijacked jetliner crashed into the building.
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