Sentence examples for hit the worker from inspiring English sources

In one case in June 2011, a packer was "throwing boxes" onto a line when one of them flipped off and hit the worker in the face, causing a corneal abrasion that required treatment in an emergency room.

When the tarps were removed four days later, the stench hit the workers like a hammer; topsoil was quickly applied.

BART officials said that the train that hit the workers was on a routine maintenance run, returning from Richmond under automated operation after delivering graffiti-marked cars.

"Over 200 job losses will hit the workers, their families and local communities hard, and it is vital that the Scottish government responds accordingly.

They get in an unintentional tug of war and the old man momentarily lashes out, hitting the worker with his walking cane and drawing blood.

"They are hitting the workers, the unemployed," said Philippe Dubois, who came from the industrial region of Liege.

"It hit the auto workers, the steel workers, and it's finally hitting the paper industry," said John A. Curtis, a grinderman, who helps convert four-foot-long logs into splinters in an early stage of the papermaking process.

By 2007, just before the financial crisis hit, the average worker in the financial industry was earning 70percentt more than counterparts in other fields.

"You always expect a softening in the labor market to hit the marginal workers, who are the youngest and the least skilled," he said.

Independent experts have warned that George Osborne's refusal to soften the planned £4.5bn a year cuts in tax credits that come into effect next April will hit the poorest workers and make three million families £1,300 a year worse off.

Writing in The New York Times, Gregg Easterbrook recently ascribed the Detroit automakers decline to what Joseph Schumpeter called capitalisms gales of creative destruction. If Detroit falls, however, those gales would hit the auto workers, retirees, and their families -- and possibly bring down the private New Deal, too.