A construction worker died after falling seven metres at a construction site in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, on Tuesday, the Labour Department said. “Labour inspectors are currently at the scene of the accident to investigate the cause of the accident and whether occupational health and safety standards were complied with at the time of the [...]
A construction worker to be in his late thirties is fighting for his life after falling out of a construction truck after it was involved in an accident on Umgeni road leaving Durban this afternoon. ER24 paramedics arrived on the scene and found the man lying in the road and in a very critical condition. [...]
Police are investigating the cause of a structural collapse which claimed the life of a construction worker and injured eight others in Ekurhuleni on Thursday. The accident happened while the workers were pouring and mixing concrete on a site behind Carnival Mall. Firefighters spent hours pulling the men from the rubble. After the critically injured [...]
Two workers were injured when they fell off scaffolding in the dry dock at Cape Town Harbour. The two workers were doing maintenance to the exterior hull of a ship when fell approximately six metres from the scaffolding to the ground below . A crane on site was used to lift the injured men from [...]
A man sustained injuries last night when wet cement fell on him whilst he was working underground at a construction site in Rosebank. Paramedics and rescue services attended the scene shortly after 19:00 where they found the man approximately 75 meters underground in a tunnel. [Info from ER24]
Kokstad ( Kokstad ) Water Purification Plant in Kokstad A construction worker is in a serious condition after falling 25m off scaffolding and into a water tanker that was been built at a local water purification plant in Kokstad this afternoon. RES Q MED arrived on the scene and were directed to the location where [...]
Two workers were critically injured this afternoon when a load of steel collapsed and fell on top of them at a construction site in Wadeville. It is speculated that an overhead crane was hoisting a load of steel, the chain connecting the cargo to the crane snapped releasing the load above where the men were [...]
Two workers were injured at a construction site this afternoon in the Rosebank area. It is believed that the workers were working about 6 meters above ground level when the steel structure they were on collapsed. One man fell down to the ground level while the other was lying on the 5th floor of the building. [...]
[Photo Netcare 911] Rescue workers have managed to free the body of a man trapped beneath thousands of kilograms of earth when the trench he was working collapsed at a Westville construction site this afternoon. Netcare911 Paramedics, working hand-in-hand with South African Police Service Search and Rescue officers and eThekwini Metro firefighters, used their technical [...]
[Photo Netcare 911] A construction worker was killed when the trench he was working in collapsed on him at the Westville site this afternoon. His body remains trapped beneath the soil with only part of his head visible. Netcare911 Paramedics, SAPS Search and Rescue Unit officers and eThekwini Metro firefighters are working to make the [...]
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