An Icelandair Boeing jet had to make a safety landing this evening, shortly after taking off from Keflavík International Airport in Iceland. The jet was on its way from Iceland to Orlando in the U.S. when it lost one of … Continue reading →
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An explosion at a pharmaceutical company in Ho Chi Minh City Monday killed one worker and seriously injured four others. The blast occurred in the drug manufacturing plant on the second floor of SPM Joint Stock Company at the Tan … Continue reading →
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Widow of sanitation worker killed on the job films public service announcement
Stacy Justich, widow of Sanitation worker Frank Justich, who was killed when a truck hit him on his Queens route with her 2-year-old daughter Felicity and 5-year-old daughter Faith.
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.”
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.
Two children were killed and five people suffered serious injuries in a mysterious cylinder explosion and chemical fire at a makeshift factory in a residential area in Ferozewala on Friday.
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.
A MAN died after falling about 20m when a pile-driver collapsed at a Southbank construction site today.
The man, 30, was helping to set up the track-mounted pile-driver digging rig to prepare the foundations for an apartment complex in Sturt St when the top section fell.
Ergonomía: mejorando las condiciones del trabajador
La Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica, en conjunto con la Mutual de Seguridad, realizarán este año la primera versión de su diplomado en ergonomía, curso diseñado para incrementar la calidad de los espacios laborales en Chile.
Rogue rubbish dumping firms costing Welsh tax payers £3m a year
THE grim scale of fly-tipping has been revealed in figures showing everything from asbestos to dead family pets are being dumped across the Welsh landscape – costing the taxpayer almost £3m a year to clean up.
WorkSafeBC penalized 34 B.C. construction firms a total of $195,980 for failing to protect workers from falls between Dec. 1, 2010 and Jan. 31, 2011.
Falls are the No. 1 cause of injury in the construction industry. Between 2007 and 2009, there were about 5,000 falls in B.C., which cost the construction industry $193 million in claims, Don Schouten, construction manager for WorkSafeBC told The Sun.
worK has been taking place to remove blue asbestos discovered in the pipe organ at Berwick Parish Church.
Whilst not posing any danger undisturbed, removal was a matter for the experts so a trio of workers from the Chirmarn Group spent three days on the project last week.
When cast iron radiators and pipes were installed in the early part of the last century, pipes passing through the organ chamber were lagged with asbestos to reduce heat damage to organ pipes and leather bellows.
The popular 72-year-old First Citizen has been recognised as Swindon’s last railway mayor, having spent eight years at the British Rail workshops.
Now, after being rushed to hospital last month, Rex – whose year-long term as mayor comes to an end next week – has been told he has epithelioid Mesothelioma.
Rex started work as an apprentice in the workshops in 1953 and was there until 1961, working in the carriage repair shop and on diesel multiple units, where asbestos was sprayed as insulation.
Workers did not wear masks.
Ban mobile phones and wireless networks in schools, say European leaders
Mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections pose a risk to human health and should be banned from schools, a powerful European body has ruled.
In a report, the committee said it was crucial to avoid repeating the mistakes
made when public health officials were slow to recognise the dangers of
asbestos, tobacco smoking and lead in petrol.
THE death of a Heanor woman crushed by a reversing hearse was a tragic accident, an inquest heard this week.
Former ordnance operative Valerie Griffiths died on July 17, 2009, as she made her way back from a shopping trip to her Abbott Street home, next to a funeral business.
The Preston born 46-year-old was only yards away from her side door when a hearse returning from a funeral reversed into the narrow courtyard without seeing her.
It ran her over, causing fatal damage to her liver.
THE death of a Heanor woman crushed by a reversing hearse was a tragic accident, an inquest heard this week.
Former ordnance operative Valerie Griffiths died on July 17, 2009, as she made her way back from a shopping trip to her Abbott Street home, next to a funeral business.
The Preston born 46-year-old was only yards away from her side door when a hearse returning from a funeral reversed into the narrow courtyard without seeing her.
It ran her over, causing fatal damage to her liver.
Orissa to raise height of electric wires to save elephants
Bhubaneswar, May 7 (PTI) With frequent cases of elephants being electrocuted, the Orissa government today decided to spend Rs 20 crore from the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Management funds for raising the height of electric wires passing through elephant corridors. This was decided at a meeting of Elephant Management Plan chaired by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who also holds the forest and environment portfolio.
Worker Deaths Decline Due To Recession, Not New Safety Regulations
NEW YORK — The number of workplace-related deaths and injuries decreased slightly in 2009 according to the nation’s largest labor union, but that’s not because of any significant changes in safety regulations. Instead, the loss of jobs due to the recession has simply kept many employees away from the most harmful workplaces.
Johann Hari: Thanks to David Cameron, more men like this will die
Mark Wright died at work, in an accident that could have been prevented. Yet the Prime Minister’s cuts to the Health and Safety Executive will cost more lives
I want to tell you the story of a man called Mark Wright, and how he died – because, thanks to David Cameron and a campaign of deceit in the right-wing press, stories like this are certain to happen a lot more in Britain from now on.
France Telecom worker kills himself in office car park
A France Telecom-Orange worker has died after setting himself alight outside his office, the latest in a wave of suicides at the company. The 57-year-old married father of four, described as a sociable member of staff, set himself on fire in the car park of a site at Merignac, near Bordeaux, after arriving for a morning shift.
He had worked for the company for 30 years, most recently at a call centre dealing with company accounts, and was a trade union member who monitored safety and work conditions. Paramedics could do nothing to save him.
Union says 57-year-old who set himself alight in Merignac had struggled with frequently having to change jobs
An electrician from Bracknell is taking two of the country’s biggest confectionery companies to the High Court for the sum of £200,000, claiming their negligence led to him contracting asbestosis.
His writ, which was handed to the High Court on Thursday, April 14, claims he first came into contact with the deadly substance while working as an electrician and technician for Nestle between 1969 and 1971.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper used his stop in Asbestos, Que. Tuesday to trumpet his government’s support for the much-maligned asbestos mining industry that the community is built on.
“The only party that defends the chrysotile industry is our party; the Conservative party,” Harper said in French, using the term for white asbestos that industry supporters prefer.
“Canada is becoming known as an immoral asbestos pusher and as an enemy of global public health. This is not the role Canadians want to play in the world,” she said.
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