The director of a building firm has been prosecuted after a self-employed contractor fell to his death through a fragile roof at an industrial building in Penryn.
Paul Gibbons, 59, who lived in Porthleven, was carrying out re-roofing work for Acryflor Ltd. at the Kernick Road Industrial Estat…
A 36-year-old contractor has been killed at the Lawford Road Cemex plant this morning (Wednesday).
Another man was taken to hospital with a broken arm.
Emergency services attended the scene; police officers and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are investigating.
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Three people were killed and four others injured in a workshop explosion in Zhejiang Province last night.
Initial reports are that a reaction kettle exploded and triggered a fire in a chemical factory.
All seven workers trapped following the explosion were rescued, but two died at the scene, and ano…
A sailor was killed yesterday after a massive wave hit the Annie PG, a tanker sailing 20 miles south of Plymouth.
The search and rescue mission was launched at 11.40am when three crewmen, one British and two foreign, were washed across the deck and into railings on the 140-metre ship.
The most se…
Two workers died and a third was seriously injured when their scaffolding collapsed from the seventh level of a building under construction opposite Al Maraya Cinema in Abu Dhabi.
A man has been killed at a Monaghan Mushrooms farm - he was struck by a front-end loader and died at the scene.
A 56-year-old man was killed in a train accident on Sunday night at the Texas Transportation Museum.
San Antonio police said the incident was caused by a miscommunication between the train's conductor and the victim.
Six people have been killed after a fire broke out in an residential home in the southern French city of Marseille.
Initial police reports state that all six died of smoke inhalation after the fire raged through the fourth floor of the building.
A teenage worker was killed when he was struck by machinery at the Port of Sunderland.
The victim, aged 19, was working at the port’s South Docks yesterday when the piece of metal fell on him, leaving him with fatal chest injuries.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are investigating the inci…
A young woman was killed in a nightclub in Northampton when the crowd rushed for an exit.
The Press Association reports that "there was an announcement that signalled the end of the night, which forced clubgoers towards the exit" and then "the fire alarm went off and everyone started panicking".
Nor…
An investigation is underway into a workplace accident that killed one man and left two other people injured at a pulp mill in northern New Brunswick, Canada.
A worker died following a ten-metre fall when a catwalk collapsed, last Thursday.
A five year-old boy has died in a playground accident at a school in south-west London.
It is currently thought the boy fell from a climbing frame during lunchtime but there are no further details. Police are investigating and the Health and Safety Executive has been informed.
First Uranium has reported that an accident at its Ezulwini gold mine killed a drill operator. It is the fourth death at the South African mine in the last twelve months.
The drill operator was killed by a collapse in the mine. In August, a man was killed in another accident, which is under interna…
Whiteinch Demolition Limited, a Glasgow demolition contractor has been fined after a worker was killed when a weight from a face shovel machine fell on him.
On 12 May 2008 Bernard McCarroll, aged 68 years from Croy, was dismantling a hydraulic excavator at the company's yard in Glasgow by the proces…
The Woolwich ferry worker killed yesterday has been named as 19-year-old Ben Woollacott.
Managing Director of Transport for London Surface Transport (Leon Daniels) said: “It is with immense sadness that I learned of the death this morning of Ben Woollacott following an incident on the Woolwich Ferry…
The Marine Accident Investigation Bureau (MAIB) is to investigate the death of a 19-year-old ferry worker who fell from the Woolwich Ferry at around 6am this morning.
A 44-year old farm worker received fatal head injuries in a 3-metre fall from a forklift truck during work to deposit fertiliser into a bin on a farm at Yarrawonga, Victoria.
A loaded crane collapsed, killing a 27-year-old worker at BHP Billiton's iron ore loading facility at Finucane Island at Port Hedland.
BHP Billiton Iron Ore reports that "The onsite emergency team has been activated and external emergency services including police are attending the scene," adding th…
Two companies have been fined a total of £640,000 following the death of two fish farm workers on a barge moored at a salmon farm on Loch Creran, Argyll & Bute, reports the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Two workers (employed by Logan Inglis Limited, Cumbernauld) were fixing a hydraulic crane o…
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