Safety News
12 workers fell to death at work sites
Twelve workers in Singapore died from fatal falls at their workplace in the first six months of this year.
Most of the victims fell from open edges and openings, as well as from roof and ladders, said the Ministry of Manpower on Thursday.
The construction sector remains the top contributor to all work-at-height fatilities.
PARTS of the accident and emergency unit at Chesterfield Royal hospital could be up and running by this afternoon, following last night’s four hour blaze.
In a meeting this morning (June 26), hospital chiefs confirmed that the ward will be accepting patients brought by ambulance from 2pm this afternoon, although the rest of the A&E will be closed “for the forseeable future.”
Injury scam draws prison
ALBANY — A woman who faked a serious neck injury to steal more than $43,000 in workers compensation benefits — then escaped to Utah after she was caught — was sentenced Thursday to 1 to 3 years in state prison.
A coalition of Quebec environmental groups launched a campaign Tuesday aimed at stopping asbestos mining in the province.
Nature Québec, the Société pour Vaincre la Pollution, and Pour que le Quebec ait meilleure mine say asbestos should not be mined because is too dangerous for human health.
Six construction workers narrowly escaped death after a five-storey building they were working on collapsed in Nairobi on Sunday morning.
Widow of sanitation worker killed on the job films public service announcement
This bike is not yet on sale, but it can apparently reach 175 miles per hour and claims to work to 10,000 feet. We are into performance sports bike territory here, even though it puts out a modest 80kw @ 7,500 rpm. It is a hefty 1100c design, a flat twin four stroke with one camshaft, four valves per cylinder and a central balancer shaft. George Lucas will probably have several on order for his trips around the country.
OOPS! THEY DID IT AGAIN: SDG&E CHOPPER DROPS A SECOND TOWER
June 10, 2011 (San Diego)—Just four days after its sky crane dropped a Sunrise Powerlink tower 200 feet, a second transmission line tower has toppled in the Imperial Valley.
Following last Monday’s accident, SDG&E promised in a press release that the company was “taking immediate steps…to investigate what occurred today in order to ensure that this does not happen again.”
Asbestos linked to ovarian cancer
It’s well known that exposure to asbestos causes lung cancer, but there have been suspicions that it could also be linked with ovarian cancer. Now, researchers have shown that there is indeed a causal association between asbestos exposure and ovarian cancer.
Moby has suffered any rock musician’s worst nightmare: getting electrocuted on stage. The incident occurred during a small acoustic show in Amsterdam this week, and you can see part of the ordeal in a not-very-nice video clip at Spinner.
In the video, the 45-year-old is seen rubbing his neck and looking rather uncomfortable next to the female vocalist he was performing with. He then stepped down from the platform he stood on, only to collapse to the floor. A voice can be heard saying, “this isn’t a joke by the way” as the audience becomes confused. The footage was captured by AT5.
Rescue 1122 officials said they were investigating whether chemicals stored at the factory caught fire, resulting in the cylinder blast, or whether the gas cylinder explosion caused the chemicals to catch fire.
Chinese prisoners forced to play video games to mine ‘virtual gold’
Prisoners with video games and in-cell televisions often bear the brunt of public outrage. But in China that disgust was turned on to prison guards, who were making money off the video-game prowess of the incarcerated.
“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour,” former prisoner Liu Dali told the paper. “There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000 renminbi [$750 to $900 CDN] a day. We didn’t see any of the money. The computers were never turned off,” added Dali, whose name was changed for publication.
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