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 [...]
The 28th of April each year marks the World Day for Health and Safety at Work. I was alerted to this by my friends from ER24 who have to attend to many of the victims from accidents at the workplace. I would like to quoye from the ER24 Blog “Not only are billions lost in [...]
Nitrogen is not only found in tyres – but also used to contain the nuclear disaster in Japan. Workers at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant on Thursday pumped nitrogen gas into a crippled reactor in a bid to contain the world’s worst atomic accident for 25 years and prevent a possible explosion. With the crisis at [...]
One man was killed this morning in an industrial accident in Parow. A man believed to be in his early forties was instructed by his supervisors to clean a concrete pan mixer, as this is a task he has done numerous times before. A lack of communication of some sort led to the piece of [...]
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