At least one person was injured when an explosion caused a fire at Sasol’s synfuel plant in Secunda on Wednesday morning. The cause of the blast has yet to be confirmed, the company said. The building had to be evacuated after the blast. One person sustained a fractured knee, while other employees are still being [...]
One man has died in an industrial accident in Somerset West this morning. The incident occurred at a warehouse construction site off of the N2 highway. The events leading up to the incident is still unclear. According to witnesses a construction worker was setting up the boom of a crane for operation. This allegedly involved [...]
STELLENBOSCH 03 August 2011, 2011 A serious incident occurred in the early hours of this morning at the library close to the Neelsie in Stellenbosch. The cause and events leading up to the incident is still unclear. ER24 paramedics received a call that a student was found under the arch bridge close to the library. [...]
EPPING 22 July 2011, 10:15 One man has sustained severe injuries this morning after falling approximately 10 meters trough an asbestos roof at a vacant warehouse in Epping. Two workers of a company specialising in renovating and building were busy taking measurements on the roof of the warehouse in order to replace some missing panels. [...]
WOODSTOCK 14 July 2011, 10:15 A serious incident at a well-known food and goods store in Woodstock has left one worker with injuries. A man aged 21 was removing parcels off of a heavy duty conveyer belt when his hand allegedly slipped from a parcel into the conveyor belt’s rolling mechanism. The man had sustained [...]
CAPE TOWN HARBOUR 11 July 2011, 09:30 One man sustained injuries this morning when he was pinned between a ship’s hull and a forklift truck.The man believed to be aged in his late thirties was working in a cargo hold of the ship, cleaning the interior. A forklift truck was being used to move large [...]
A man had his foot crushed while loading a vehicle on a trailer in the Menlyn area yesterday. The man was busy loading a Jeep at the Chrysler Jeep Dodge Dealership next to the Talisman business to be taken for repair when the “wishbone” at the front of the trailer gave way under the weight [...]
Shortly before 1pm, two men were working on what is believed to have been a faulty transformer in the area of eMbalenhle in Mpumalanga. As they were removing the transformer box to replace it with a new one, it allegedly burst into flames in the men’s hands. Both men, aged 47 and 31 sustained severe [...]
A serious incident occurred this afternoon at the Tembisa dumpsite. It is still unclear as to how the incident occurred, but workers were offloading garbage with a dumpster truck and a dumpster bin. Somehow one of the workers was crushed between the truck and the dumpster. When ER24 paramedics arrived at the scene the male [...]
The fire in the factory on Liverpool Street in Benoni has destroyed a large part of the building. At this stage, the cause of the fire is not known and will be investigated by the relevant Fire Investigation Officials. The factory is believed to have been manufacturing batteries and witnesses explained that there may have [...]
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