Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Hussain Ahamad Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 05/01/2024. In the application, the allegation was in respect of illegal mining of earth from the nearby agricultural field by brick kilns in an area in Muzaffarnagar district. Pits were …
Workers in fields and factories face an epidemic of heat-related injuries that will devastate their health, income and productivity as climate change takes hold, a major UN report has warned. Productivity losses alone could rise above $2tn by 2030, as outdoor employees in many regions slow their pace, take longer …
Rescuers have found two miners' bodies in a flooded colliery in Shaanxi Province, but nine remain missing more than 75 hours after the flood. The first body was retrieved from the Zhaojin coal mine in the city of Tongchuan at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday, and the second was found at …
Four more people have been found dead after last week's explosion at a petrochemical plant in southeastern Mexico, raising the death toll to 32, state oil giant Pemex and Mexican plastic pipe maker Mexichem said in a joint statement on Sunday. The vinyl petrochemical plant in the Gulf coast state …
XI'AN - Eleven miners were missing in a coal mine flooding accident Monday in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, authorities said. The accident happened around 8 am at Zhaojin Coal Mine in Yaozhou district in the city of Tongchuan, when 67 workers were in the shaft, said a spokesman with the …
A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday at 11:40 am. Jubail United Petrochemical Co., a chemical plant in Al-Jubail KSA, was struck by a fire that claimed 12 lives and left 11 others injured. In a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency, …
URUMQI -- Three people were killed, one injured and seven more trapped after a coal mine collapsed Sunday afternoon in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, local authorities said Monday. A total of 19 people were working in the mine when part of the coal mine collapsed at around 2:50 …
TWO people were killed after a waste water treatment device exploded Sunday night in a chemical plant in east China's Shandong Province, local government said Monday. The explosion occurred at around 8:20 p.m. in a plant of Lianhetech, a chemical firm listed in the Shenzhen stock market, in Pingyuan County, …
A worker for Sinopec's Addax Petroleum was missing after an oil tank exploded in Gabon, the company said on Sunday. Addax said the cause of the accident on Saturday, which occurred at the Obangue-East oil producing site, was unclear and that an investigation was underway. The accident injured six other …
The Geita District Administrative Secretary, Mr Gasper Kanyairita, told the ‘Daily News’ that the victims’ death came a few months after authorities warned over the safety of the pit. Mr Kanyairita said an operation conducted as soon as the calamity was reported managed to save four miners who were rushed …
Russia's technical watchdog, Rostekhnadzor, said on Tuesday it had not found any serious breaches of safety regulations at an Arctic coal mine where an accident killed 36 miners and rescue workers last week, Russian news agencies reported.
The 26 miners who were trapped in a Russian coal mine above the Arctic circle have died and rescue operations have been halted after a third blast underground killed several rescue workers, emergency services said on Sunday. The miners were trapped on Thursday after a sudden leak of methane gas …
Newcrest Mining suspended all mining and processing at its Gosowong operation in Indonesia after the underground section of the gold mine was damaged by a cave-in late on Monday, which trapped one of its workers. Newcrest said on Tuesday it did not know what caused the "geotechnical event", which led …
A chemical plant in Taichung of central Taiwan caught fire Monday morning, with two workers missing, local media said. Explosions were around 5:51 this morning, and photos posted on social media showed fire and thick smog at the site, according to China Times. Police has arrived to put out the …
Rescuers have successfully lifted out 4 miners who had been trapped for 36 days after a gypsum mine collapsed in Pingyi County, east China's Shandong Province in late December. Meanwhile, rescue efforts are still in full swing for the 13 trapped miners still listed as missing underground. Zhang Shuping, mayor …
Rescuers have found eight survivors five days after a mine collapse in east China's Shandong Province, rescuers confirmed Wednesday. The gypsum mine accident happened at 8 p.m. Friday in Pingyi County. At the time, 29 people were working underground. One is confirmed dead, four escaped, and seven have been rescued, …
The owner of a gypsum mine that collapsed on Friday in Shandong province drowned early on Sunday morning in an apparent suicide while assisting rescue teams attempting to extract the 17 miners still trapped underground, according to local authorities. Zhang Shuping, mayor of Linyi, said that Ma Congbo, chairman of …
At least 13 people died when an old gold mine they were working in collapsed in eastern Guinea, a local official said on Monday. The accident happened in a mine run by informal workers in Kintinia, about 800 km (500 miles) northeast of Conakry, an area which holds some of …
Another four miners have been confirmed dead, bringing the death toll in a mine fire in northeast China's Liaoning Province to 17 as of Friday morning, local authorities said. The fire broke out Thursday afternoon at the Xingli coal mine in Huludao City. As of 9:07 pm Thursday, 23 trapped …
HARBIN - The number of people trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine on Wednesday afternoon has risen to 19, the work safety authority in northeast China's Hegang City, Heilongjiang Province said. The explosion happened at about 2:30 p.m., at the time 52 people were working underground, 33 …
Five workers were hurt when a fire broke out at the Lazaro Cardenas refinery in Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, state oil and gas company Pemex said on Thursday. Pemex said in a statement the fire in a catalytic plant that had been closed for maintenance …
