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One of the world’s biggest manufacturers of industrial vehicles and equipment has been cited and penalized for the death of a worker who fell into an 11-foot-deep pot of molten iron heated to ...
The 39-year-old worker in Illinois was killed on their ninth day of work, officials said. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...
[2] [3] Three Iron Workers Local 8 members, Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr, were killed when the suspended personnel platform in which they were observing the lift was hit by the falling crane. [3] [4] A safety inspector was filming construction of the stadium on that day and captured the collapse on video as it occurred.
Iron work is a skilled craft that dates back to the late 19th century and is a result of the rapid rise in the use of modern steel in iron bridges and skyscrapers. [4] It was and is also an exceptionally dangerous job; hundreds of iron workers fell to their death every year in the late years of the nineteenth century.
The Qinghe Special Steel Corporation disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on April 18, 2007, in Qinghe District, Tieling, Liaoning, China.Thirty-two people were killed and six were injured when a ladle used to transport molten steel separated from an overhead rail in the Qinghe Special Steel Corporation factory.
The 52-year-old construction worker was underwater for over an hour before divers got to him. ... A 52-year-old man died when the construction bulldozer he was in slipped into a man-made pond ...
One source says 30 people were killed and 70 injured; [1] another says 17 killed and 120 injured. [2] January 10 – United States – The New York Central Railroad's Southwest Limited from St. Louis to Cleveland, instead of slowing to pick up a train order at Wellington, Ohio, approached too fast in the fog and derailed. The signal tower was ...
FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) -A firefighter died while trying to rescue trapped residents and several thousand people were forced to leave their homes as heavy rain caused flooding in southern ...