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Bike accident causes

Bike accident causes

Many bike accidents involve other vehicles. Bikes and motorcycles are less visible in traffic than cars, vans and lorries. Drivers are used to looking out for other vehicles. They don’t always check for bikes and motorcycles.
Some bike accidents are the result of defective road surfaces. A pothole or raised surface of the road can throw [...]

Royal Mail worker died following Heathrow accident

Royal Mail worker died following Heathrow accident

The Royal Mail was fined £ 90,000 plus costs of £ 42,549 for failing to adequately control the movements of vehicles at Heathrow distribution center in the world (HWDC).
A 57-year old worker died, crushed between a reversing truck and trailer, the truck had been lined up on the trailer unit parked in the loading bay [...]

Unguarded drilling machine at Midlands manufacturer

Unguarded drilling machine at Midlands manufacturer

Solihull magistrates fined Thor Hammer Company Ltd £ 2500 to £ 2594 in costs after admitting breaching R.11 (1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 in respect of a machine unprotected drilling pedestal in its premises Shirley.
On November 6, 2008, an employee was operating the machine when the glove on his [...]

Houston Crane Collapse Accident kills four

Houston Crane Collapse Accident kills four

Houston Crane Accident Lyondell Chemical kills four people is a Houston refinery on Friday afternoon. Safety officials said the large crane collapsed at the LyondellBasell refinery strike over two other cranes. A spokeman for LyondellBasell said that four dead and seven others were wounded.
Two of the injured were flown by Life Flight helicopter to Memorial [...]

Workers killed in Scottish bridge falls

Workers killed in Scottish bridge falls

Two men die after falling from ladders while working on Forth bridge and Tay rail bridge

Two workers have died after falls from the Forth Bridge and the Tay Rail Bridge, in unrelated incidents last night and this morning.
A man died around 6:40 this morning after a fall while working on the Tay railway bridge.
According to [...]

Garden State Parkway crash killed two, 3 injured

Garden State Parkway crash killed two, 3 injured

A vehicle accident occurred at engine on the Garden State Parkway and 3 injured in Bloomfield, NJ.
Bloomfield, NJ (NewYorkInjuryNews.com) – A terrible car crash three wounded three and killed two people on Garden State Parkway Sunday, January 17, 2010, according to NorthJersey.com.
Police and emergency medical services (EMS) arrived on the scene to rescue the [...]

Axle stand error killed mechanic

Axle stand error killed mechanic

FW Abbott Ltd of Kettering has been fined £40,000 plus £25,000 in connection with a June 2007 fatal accident in which an experienced mechanic incorrectly deployed hydraulic lifts and an axle stand in [...]

Tiger Woods Still Mum on Accident

Tiger Woods Still Mum on Accident

November 30, 2009 at 7:50 pm
.. Tiger Woods will not play in his own golf tournament for charity week.He EC issued a statement saying his injuries at crash site last weeks of the sera car Prevent Participate in Chevron World Challenge And Also he canceled his press conference that Summer for a fixed tomorrow …. [...]

China says 37 dead, 71 trapped in mine explosion

China says 37 dead, 71 trapped in mine explosion

BEIJING – A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in north China Saturday, killing 37 people and trapping 71 others near a third of a mile underground.
The accident was a blow to the Chinese government, including large public companies, coal mines are generally considered safer than smaller, private ones. The country’s mines remain [...]

Developer and landlord fined for CDM breach

Developer and landlord fined for CDM breach

A real estate developer and owner has been fined £ 10,000 with costs of £ 4103 after pleading guilty to violating r.4 (1) (a) and 9 (1) (a) of the Construction (Design & Management) Regulations for offenses committed on 2 sites in Waltham Forest, London.
He has failed to appoint a competent contractor and failed to [...]

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