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 …
WARSAW, Poland (AP) Polish officials are searching for a miner who has been missing underground following a methane explosion. The accident occurred 660 meters (1,265 feet) below the surface Monday evening at the Myslowice-Wesola mine near the southern Polish city of Katowice. The broadcaster TVN24 is reporting that of 37 …
Four people died in a coal mine explosion in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, said local authorities on Tuesday. The blast ripped through a shaft of the Xinjiu Coal Mine in Shuangyashan City at about 6 p.m. on September 4. The owner of the mine then tried to conceal the deadly …
CHANGSHA - Five people were confirmed dead and one was seriously injured in a fire that broke out at a barium nitrate plant in Central China's Hunan province early on Tuesday, local authorities said. The fire happened at around 5:30 am at Xinhuang Luxiang Barium Industry Co Ltd, in Fangjiatun …
At least 15 people were injured Wednesday after an explosion at a steel plant in central Japan, the latest in a series of accidents at the site. Television pictures showed clouds of black smoke billowing from the Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal facility in Tokai, which employs 3,000 people. A …
An explosion in a Chinese coal mine has killed two workers and trapped 25 others underground, according to state media. The blast at the privately-owned mine in Huainan city resulted in part of a tunnel collapsing, trapping workers. Twelve others were rescued. The cause of the blast is being investigated. …
China's work safety authority reported on Tuesday cover-ups in two coal mining accidents that killed 11 people last month. On July 5, a roof collapse at Xingcheng Coal Mine in Heilongjiang province left eight miners dead. The mine owner intentionally concealed the accident until the public informed regulators, according to …
Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) on Tuesday issued notices to Geo Hybrid Industrial Solution Pvt Limited (GSPL) asking to close down its operations immediately for violating the pollution norms. GSPL unit will remain closed till further orders, the GPCB said. GPCB has asked Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL) to …
Alang se palang” (from Alang to the deathbed) is a grim saying among workers at the ship breaking yard in Alang in Gujarat. This proved true for five workers who died in a gas explosion on June 28, sparking fresh concern on environmental and safety standards. The National Human Rights …
At least 17 miners remain trapped after a coal mine gas blast in Xinjiang on Saturday night. Rescuers are pouring nitrogen into the mine to dilute the gas concentration. The process, which was started early on Sunday morning, needs to be continued for 24 hours before it is safe to …
Company aims to lower man power cost by mid-2015 to up margin To prevent recurrence of accidents like the recent one at Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)’s plant in Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, the country’s largest steel company is planning to appoint a safety audit firm. “We are in talks with …
VISAKHAPATNAM: Two years after a major blast left 19 dead at state-run Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd's Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, two engineers were killed in the container laboratory of the same Steel Melting Shop-2 (SMS) of the plant here on Monday reportedly due to gas leakage. The deceased were identified as …
Gas leakage from blast furnace-GCP occurred at around 6.30 PM due to breakdown in a water pump. In the biggest industrial accident in recent years, at least six employees of Bhilai Steel Plant were killed and over 30 injured after a gas leak on Thursday night. The victims included two …
One miner was killed and five others remain trapped in a flooded coal mine in North China's Hebei province, local authorities said Tuesday. The accident happened in a shaft in Xiandewang coal mine in Xingtai city at 7:30 pm on Monday when 14 miners were working underground. One was killed …
Two dozen people, including company executives, have been detained as Turkish officials investigate the mining disaster that killed 301 people, a domestic news agency reported Sunday. The Dogan news agency said Ramazan Dogru, general manager of the mine owned by Soma Holding, and its operations manager, Akin Celik, were among …
Rescue teams have recovered eight more victims from a coal mine in western Turkey, raising the death toll in Turkey's worst mining disaster to 282, a government minister said Thursday. Even as hopes for some 150 other miners trapped underground faded, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz told reporters that rescue efforts …
Six workers at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site suffered injuries when hot water spilled over them during maintenance work on Wednesday. Three of them were staff members while the remaining three were contract workers. They were immediately given first aid on the plant site and then taken to the …
Oil and gas workers in North Dakota are six times more likely to die on the job than their peers in other states as inexperienced workers join the state’s oil and gas boom, according to a report by a labor group. In North Dakota, 104 out of every 100,000 oil, …
Hundreds of tribal miners working at the green marble mines in Rishabdeo have decided not to exercise their voting rights in the upcoming general elections. This unanimous decision came after the green marble association allegedly failed to honor its commitment as assured in a recent meeting with the miners who …
Six people were confirmed dead and one injured after a coal mine gas blast on Saturday night in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local authorities said. The accident occurred at about 11:50 p.m. at Hongxing Coal Mine in Pu'an county of Qianxinan prefecture, according to the county government. The injured person …
The Orissa High Court on Wednesday directed the State Government to submit a status report on the health condition of the victims of Bhushan Steel plant mishap in Dhenkanal district. A bench of Chief Justice A K Goel and Justice A K Rath also issued notice to the Government, Managing …
