Weirdest Workplace Safety Stories (Photo Gallery)

Feb. 28, 2014
Maybe it’s something in the air. Maybe it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon alignment of the planets. Or maybe it’s just sheer happenstance. Whatever it is, it seems that an inordinately large percentage of recent EHS news has skewed toward the bizarre, the outlandish and the surreal. From the stories that make you scratch your head to the ones that make you question your faith in humanity, we’re taking a look at some of the strangest EHS developments from the past year or so. 

Maybe it’s something in the air. Maybe it’s a once-in-a-blue-moon alignment of the planets. Or maybe it’s just sheer happenstance. Whatever it is, it seems that an inordinately large percentage of recent EHS news has skewed toward the bizarre, the outlandish and the surreal.

From the stories that make you scratch your head to the ones that make you question your faith in humanity, we’re taking a look at some of the strangest EHS developments from the past year or so. For various reasons (the main one being that your head might explode), reader discretion is advised.

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