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Eight rescuers killed during volcano search and rescue mission

Eight people were killed after an Indonesian search and rescue helicopter deployed to survey a volcanic eruption crashed. The Indonesian Search and Rescue Agency’s helicopter was carrying four rescuers and four Navy crew when it crashed into a cliff in Temanggung in central Java on Sunday. All eight bodies have been recovered from the crash…

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UK : Botched lift spilled scaffold fittings

Two construction companies have been fined after a woman was struck by scaffolding fittings dropped from a crane. Weymouth Magistrates’ Court heard how employees of Carter Training Ltd were using a mobile crane in Queen Mothers Square, Poundbury, Dorchester when an attachment holding 500 scaffolding fittings was turned on its side. The fittings, weighing 2kg…

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Crane collapses in Crewe – two men confirmed dead following ‘truly tragic’ incident

TWO men have been killed after a crane collapsed at a building site in Crewe, police have revealed. Air ambulance leaves site of crane incident in Crewe Emergency services raced to the scene to free victims from the wreckage after the construction equipment collapsed in Phoenix Leisure Park, Dunwoody Way, Crewe.Cheshire Police confirmed the deaths…

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UK : Experts take fire extinguisher to government’s bonfire of safety regs

UK Safety professionals are urging the government to end its obsession with deregulating health and safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze. More than 70 organisations and figures from the UK’s safety and health profession have jointly called for a political sea change in attitude towards health and safety regulation and fire risk…

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Ireland : Poolbeg incinerator incident is a major mishap

Hospitalisation of 11 workers adds to the pressure on the Dublin plant The hospitalisation of 11 workers following a major incident at Dublin’s new waste incinerator at Poolbeg forced the temporary closure of the plant within days of it coming into operation. The incinerator is still only at the commissioning stage, but the timing of…

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