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 …
Carbon monoxide poisoning killed 11 people, after an air compressor caught fire in a coal mine in North China's Hebei province, local authorities said Friday. Two miners have been missing since the accident occurred at 8 p.m. on Thursday in a coal mine in Huailai County of Zhangjiakou City, said …
Liquid chlorine spill at a chemical plant in Russia's Perm Territory injured 30 people, local authorities told the Interfax news agency Friday. Workers at the plant, located at the town of Berezniki in Perm, violated the technological process, triggering the accident. "30 people have been injured, 27 of them were …
Carbon monoxide has been blamed for four deaths of workers in a cement plant in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday, local officials said. Seven workers were poisoned by carbon monoxide at 6:40 p.m. when they were adding steel balls into a raw mill at the cement plant in Pingliang …
China's safety watchdog said Wednesday it will suspend or shut down operations in over 5,000 non-coal mines that do not meet safety standards this year. The government will take steps to reduce accidents in non-coal mines and keep the death toll below 900 this year, according to a document released …
There was a gas leak in the Visakhapatnam Steel Plant late on Monday night, around 11 p.m. or so, resulting in the hospitalisation of 11 employees. According to sources, two of them are still in hospital, one in the general hospital in the steel plant and the other in a …
All three victims are contract workers; compensation ordered Three persons were killed in the fire that broke out in a storage tank of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal at Hazira, near here, on Saturday. The fire was contained after a 21-hour operation, officials said on Sunday. “The body of …
At least 88 labourers working in different big industries in the State died in accidents during the last two years, the Assembly was informed on Tuesday. “While 56 labourers died due to accidents in big industries during 2011-12, 32 met a similar fate during 2012-13 (up to August),” Labour and …
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF STEEL RAJYA SABHA QUESTION NO 1506 ANSWERED ON 06.12.2012 Fire accident at RINL 1506 DR. T.N. SEEMA Will the Minister of STEEL be pleased to satate :- (a) whether Government has ordered safety audit of all the public sector steel plants after fire accident at …
Five labourers died in an accident at an under-construction power plant of Korba West Power Co Limited in Raigrah district of Chhattisgarh Saturday morning. The labourers were on a 170-foot high scaffolding built around a cooling tower of the power plant when the scaffolding came crashing down. The victims were …
New Delhi: Days after poisonous gas at a sewage treatment plant killed two labourers, two cleaners died inside a Rohini sewer on Wednesday morning. Shankar (40) and Manoj (19), reportedly inhaled poisonous gas while cleaning a sewer in Sector 3, Rohini. Police said the sewer is in Delhi Development Authority’s …
New Delhi: Despite various guidelines issued by the Delhi high court and Supreme Court for protection of sewage cleaners, incidents of sewer deaths continue to multiply. Sources claim there have been at least 40 sewer related deaths in the last six months in the capital and yet the guidelines have …
The Sheila Dikshit Government is all set to appoint Professor AK Gosain, Head of the Civil Engineering Department, as consulting-in-charge on behalf of the Industrial Research and Development Unit of IIT Delhi for preparation of ‘Master Plan for Drainage for NCT of Delhi’. The Delhi Government is bringing a proposal …
Bhutan recognizes the provision of safety, health and welfare in the workplace as a prerequisite for economic and spiritual development, poverty reduction and the road to Gross National Happiness. The National Occupational Health and Safety Policy aspires to be congruent with the philosophy of Gross National Happiness and reflects various …
Sardinata (Colombia), Jan. 27: An explosion likely caused by a methane gas buildup ripped through an underground coal mine in Colombia during a shift change on Wednesday, killing 21 workers, officials said. A similar fatal blast occurred at the same mine four years ago. Five of the victims died at …
KANPUR: Gas Authority of India Limited (GAIL) director RD Goyal visited the company's plant in Auraiya on Sunday and ordered a probe into the fire that broke out at the plant on Saturday. A senior official of GAIL was killed while three others sustained serious burns when the fire broke …
Three cleaners who went into a manhole in a banquet hall at Adarsh Nagar area died from toxic gases on Tuesday afternoon. According to the police, the incident was reported to them around 1.35 pm from Badhai Banquet Hall. The police said that while two of the victims had gone …
Satyasundar Barik BHUBANESWAR: At least one engineer died and two others were battling for life when they sustained serious burn injuries after coming in contact with hot ash on campus of Bhushan Power and Steel Limited, Thelkoli in Sambalpur district, about 350 km from here on Sunday The deceased was …
The November 2009 exposure of employees at the Kaiga nuclear power plant to tritiated water is not the first instance of high radiation exposures to workers. Over the years, many nuclear reactors and other facilities associated with the nuclear fuel cycle operated by the Department of Atomic Energy have had …
BHUBANESWAR: For the first time in India, Orissa will become the only state to have a rehabilitation centre for industrial workers, who met with accidents while disbursing their duties. Earlier, the industrial workers were subjected only to a monetary benefit scheme following a mishap, but no other way to help …
