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Expo assets for auction

Metro | Work safety
2009-11-22

WORLD Expo 2010 Shanghai assets -- from calligraphies and paintings to administrative offices and facilities -- are expected to go under the auctioneer's hammer when the event is over. The Expo authority's asset...

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Painter falls

Metro | Work safety
2009-11-16

A PAINT worker died yesterday after falling from a high building. The worker was painting the outside wall of an apartment building on Xizang Road S. in Huangpu District. He fell from the 31st floor and landed...

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2 carpenters die in 40-meter fall from gondola

Metro | Work safety
2009-11-4

LOCAL work-safety inspectors yesterday were still investigating the deaths of two migrant workers who fell off a construction gondola about 40 meters high on Monday. Two other workers managed to grasp the cradle...

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Workers hurt

Metro | Work safety
2009-10-15

TWO telecom workers were injured, with one still in hospital in a serious condition, after being hit by a taxi in Yan'an Road E. yesterday morning. The cab hit the victims while they were working, a witness said....

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Residents fear buildings will collapse

Metro | Work safety
2009-9-22

RESIDENTS of two buildings in Changning District fear they may collapse after nearby construction have caused them to sink at least 8 centimeters and sparking frequent tremors, a Website reported today. One fifth-floor...

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8 builders hurt as scaffold collapses

Metro | Work safety
2009-9-18

EIGHT migrant workers were injured after a scaffold collapsed yesterday at a Shanghai-Beijing express railway construction site in Minhang District. It was the second collapse on the project's construction sites...

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2 workers die as truck crashes

Metro | Work safety
2009-9-17

TWO road-maintenance workers were killed yesterday after a truck crashed into an enclosed construction area on Huqingping Highway, Qingpu District, about 7am. The truck driver, Wang Chunhui, 23, from Anhui Province,...

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Worker dies in factory gas blast

Metro | Work safety
2009-9-12

A WORKER died after breathing noxious fumes from an explosion and fire in northeast Shanghai's Waigaoqiao area yesterday morning. The victim was identified as Chen Jinhua, 53, an employee of the Sinopec Shanghai...

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Worker killed

Metro | Work safety
2009-9-5

A WORKER, 46, died yesterday after he fell from a scaffold near the intersection of Changhai Road and Heishan Road in Yangpu District. He was from Anhui Province.

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Families of dead workers accept compensation

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-28

THE families of the four workers killed last week when two cranes crashed in Jiading District have received total compensation of 2.18 million yuan (US$31,9059), local quality authorities said yesterday. Authorities...

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Government to investigate fatal crane accident

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-20

THE city government has set up a task force to investigate the collapse of a 10-ton crane crash that killed four workers and injured three others, it announced today. The investigation task force, headed by the...

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FLASH: CITY SETS UP INVESTIGATION TEAM TO PROBE INTO CRANE SLAM. 4 KILLED IN ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT.

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-20

FLASH: CITY SETS UP INVESTIGATION TEAM TO PROBE INTO CRANE SLAM. 4 KILLED IN ACCIDENT LAST NIGHT.

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4 workers die at local rail site in crane slam

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-20

FOUR workers were crushed to death and two others were injured yesterday evening after a 10-ton crane crashed into another crane during a heavy rainstorm at a construction site for the Shanghai-Beijing express rail...

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Food victims

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-20

MORE than 30 workers became ill last night after eating meals provided by a food company in Minhang District. Five are still in hospital, while the rest have recovered and been discharged. Doctors said they were "typical...

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6 hospitalized after gas leak

Metro | Work safety
2009-8-19

SIX people, including two children, were taken to a downtown hospital yesterday after breathing in gas leaking from a burst pipe on Jiujiang Road in Huangpu District. The six were all in a stable condition. Firefighters...