industrial accident

noun

: an accident in a factory

He was hurt in an industrial accident.

Examples of industrial accident in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Skarsgård plays her husband, Jan, who works on an oil rig and is paralyzed in an industrial accident. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026

Two brothers are among the victims in the state's deadliest industrial accident in modern history. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026

There is no reason to believe the explosion was anything more than an industrial accident, rather than a deliberate act of terrorism, said Lipow. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 Mar. 2026

To hear insiders tell it, the reason why Bangladesh hasn’t had another Rana Plaza-like industrial accident has mostly boiled down to luck. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 15 Dec. 2025