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The List of countries by rate of fatal workplace accidents sorts countries by the rate of workplace fatalities per 100,000 workers. Data is provided by the International Labour Organization (ILO). According to estimates, around 2.3 million people die yearly from work-related accidents or diseases every year.
Singapore: Land Transport Authority. ISBN 978-981-4342-02-5. Committee of Inquiry Concludes String of Critical Design Errors Caused Collapse at Nicoll Highway (PDF) (Report). Singapore: Ministry of Manpower. 13 May 2005. 20050513987. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 April 2021 – via National Archives of Singapore.
It killed 76 people, and remains the worst accident, in terms of lives lost, in Singapore's post-war history. It is also Singapore's worst industrial accident. February 24, 1984: Occurred on the night in Cubatao, Brazil around 23:30 a gasoline pipeline exploded in the favela of Vila Sao Jose killing at least 508 people, most of them children.
In 2007, 5,488 workers died from job injuries, 92% of which were men, [11] and 49,000 died from work-related injuries. [12] NIOSH estimates that 4 million workers in the U.S. in 2007 sustained non-fatal work related injuries or illnesses. [13] Within the U. S. construction industry, the most common work-related fatal injury occurs from worksite ...
Many of these developing countries are stuck in a situation in which their relative lack of resources to invest in OSH leads to increased costs due to work-related illnesses and accidents. [citation needed] The ILO estimates that work-related illness and accidents cost up to 10% of GDP in Latin America, compared with just 2.6% to 3.8% in the EU ...
A construction accident occurred at approximately 3:30 pm on 20 April 2004 in Singapore when a Circle Line tunnel being constructed near Nicoll Highway station collapsed. The supporting structure for the deep excavation work failed, resulting in a 30-metre (100 ft) deep cave-in that spread across six lanes of Nicoll Highway.
Accidents and incidents involving Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) (6 P) Pages in category "Railway accidents and incidents in Singapore" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
The Pasir Ris rail accident occurred on 22 March 2016 at the track switch near Pasir Ris station in Pasir Ris, Singapore on the East–West Line (EWL). A train ran over and killed two SMRT Trains track workers, Nasrulhudin Majumudin and Muhammad Asyraf Ahmad Buhari, who were trainees and part of a team of 15 investigating a track point fault machine near the station.