The latest accident alerts from Singapore had been improving in its usefulness. The case studies are relatively prompt and have pictures to help readers understand the cases better. The most recent alert can be found here.
Incidents & Investigations
Personal vs. catastrophic accidents
Safety at work blog (a very useful and active safety blog) reported a list of recent BHP fatalities. One quick observation of the BHP fatalities is that they are primarily personal accidents, not catastrophic accidents (e.g. Beaconsfield rock fall fatality).
Sydney Scaffold Collapse
Saw a post on Kevin Jone’s SafetAtWork blog on an accident involving a scaffold collapse.
The accident is reported in this website. Note that there had been a scaffold incident just weeks before this accident.
Explosion at Pandan Road shipyard in Singapore
Location of accident (Country, State, Address): Singapore, Pandan Road
Company: Unknown
Date and time of accident: 9 September 2008, 2.45pm
Industry Type: Shipbuilding and Ship Repair
Severity: One injured
Type of Accident: Fire and explosion
Fatal Accident at Bayer CropScience in West Virginia
Location of accident (Country, State, Address): U.S.A., Kanawha County, West Virginia
Company: Bayer CropScience
Date and time of accident: 28 August 2008, 10:40pm
Industry Type: Chemical Industry
Severity: One killed and one injured
Type of Accident: Fire and explosion
Accidents involving temporary workers in Australia
This interview raise the issue of safety of temporary workers:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2008/2294991.htm
I believe it is a worldwide problem...
Spontaneous Ignition Fire
Just received the WSH Alert (Singapore) on a recent laundry fire caused by spontaneous fire (copied below). See my earlier post on a similar topic.
WSH Alert: 26 0ay 2008
Laundry fire caused by spontaneous ignition
A fire broke out in a laundry shop on 2 April 2008 at about 2am. There had been a few cases of such fires. Investigation revealed that these fires were probably caused by spontaneous ignition, a result of poor dissipation of heat generated from chemical reactions of chemical residues in the laundry.
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