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After tank implosion, Washington state expands scrutiny to other paper mills
1+ hour, 45+ min ago (327+ words) State officials are launching what will likely be monthslong inspections of several pulp and paper mills following the deadly tank rupture at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging plant. The state Department of Labor and Industries announced Thursday that it plans to…...
Portadown father suffered catastrophic injuries in workplace accident
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (665+ words) A Portadown father who suffered catastrophic injuries after plunging 10 feet through a perspex roof on a work site spent five and a half weeks on a ventilator. On April 28, 2025, Jason Webb's life was changed after a typical work day turned…...
Factory worker survives nine-metre fall in Ipoh
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (159+ words) IPOH: A factory worker survived after falling 30 feet (9. 144 metres) from a cement factory building in Persiaran Tasek, Tasek Industrial Estate here today. Perak Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) Operations Division assistant director Sabarodzi Nor Ahmad said the 23-year-old man sustained…...
Ammonia removal operation at Tiruvallur seafood processing plant on July 4 and 5
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (282+ words) Updated - July 03, 2026 06: 29 pm IST - CHENNAI Tiruvallur district authorities have declared a 500-metre radius around a private seafood processing plant at Kannigaipair village as a restricted zone ahead of a planned ammonia removal operation scheduled for July 4 and 5. An ammonia leak…...
HS2 work paused after serious site accident
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (262+ words) Construction work has now resumed at HS2 sites across the West Midlands after a contractor had to be taken to hospital by air ambulance. Kenilworth Nub News reported that emergency services were called to the North Warwickshire site on Thursday 18 June,…...
Worker Dies in SK Ecoplant Site Accident
10+ hour, 28+ min ago (253+ words) A fatal accident occurred at an SK Ecoplant railway construction site where a subcontractor worker died while working. SK announced on July 2 that one worker belonging to a subcontractor died at the Pyeongtaek-Osong double-track railway zone 2 construction site, where its…...
Ammonia gas leak: Death toll rises to 18
10+ hour, 7+ min ago (131+ words) Updated - July 03, 2026 12: 53 pm IST - CHENNAI The toll in the ammonia leak at a seafood processing and export facility in Tiruvallur district last month has risen to 18, with the death of one more hospitalised woman migrant worker on Friday (July 3, 2026). Tamil…...
Tiruvallur gas leak: 500m around unit declared restricted ahead of ammonia removal
14+ hour ago (320+ words) CHENNAI: An area spanning 500-metre radius around the St Peter & Paul Sea Food Exports Private Limited seafood processing plant at Kannigaipair in Tiruvallur has been declared a restricted zone ahead of the safe removal of ammonia gas scheduled for July…...
Man crushed to death after "falling" into hydraulic press in Ggm
14+ hour, 59+ min ago (406+ words) A 27-year-old man was allegedly crushed to death in Gurugram's Kherki Daula on Wednesday after he fell into a hydraulic press at a scrap-processing factory, police said on Thursday, adding that they have yet to establish the circumstances of the…...
Bengaluru quarry tragedy: Massive rock falls on migrant labourers, 7 crushed to death
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (941+ words) Bengaluru, Jul 2 (PTI) Seven migrant labourers, including five from Madhya Pradesh were killed instantaneously on Thursday when a massive granite rock slid from the top and fell on them in a quarry in Bengaluru urban district, a senior police official…...