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…
The number of directors and senior managers prosecuted under section 37
of the Heath and Safety at Work etc. Act, 1974 has rocketed by more than 400 per cent in the last five
years, reports SHP.
The total number of individuals convicted under s37 in 2010/11 was 35 – a substantial increase on the …
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…
A Toronto-based company that designs and builds tunnel boring machines used to dig underground circular tunnels, was fined for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
Caterpillar Tunneling Canada Corporation was fined $130,000 on 22 December 2011.
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 worker could have been killed when he cut into a live electricity cable on a building site near Wigan, a court has heard.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted his employer, Wain Homes (North West) Ltd., after an investigation revealed he had been told the cable did not have power run…