One of the recorders from the missing Coast Guard helicopter has been located 40m deep in the sea. As today’s search for the three missing crew members from the helicopter – Mark Duffy, Paul Ormsby and Ciarán Smith – gets underway, the search for the recorder will also be part of today’s plan. Jurgen Whyte…
Read articleThe Head of Operations of the Irish Coast Guard has said “hopes are fading” of finding three crew members still missing off the west coast of Mayo. One member of the crew of the Rescue 116 Coast Guard helicopter has been located in a critical condition, while the search for the other three members continues.…
Read articleA London construction company has been fined £450,000 after a work platform was overloaded and brought four workers to the ground when it collapsed. Westminster Magistrates Court heard this week how Leyland SDM (LSDM) Limited had been in the process of redeveloping a warehouse in Wembley. However, when four men tried to move a ventilation…
Read articleThey say Ford, aged 74, was instructed to land on a runway at John Wayne airport in Orange Country on Monday. But instead he mistakenly landed on a parallel taxiway, passing over a waiting American Airlines plane with 110 passengers and crew on board. That plane safely departed minutes later. Ford has not commented on…
Read articleIrish Coast Guard flies second injured man to hospital after incident involving pontoons The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) is investigating the death of a man during work on pontoons in the south Connemara harbour of Ros-a-Mhíl on Sunday evening. The man, who was in his 40s and believed to be from the north west,…
Read articleThe air corps was told three months ago it needs to monitor its workers’ exposure to harmful substances, observe their health for early detection, and give them the equipment to protect themselves against chemical exposure. The five-page report from the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) was issued to the air corps last October. Inspections took…
Read articleNew figures show that there were 44 people killed in workplaces in 2016 in Ireland, representing a 21% reduction of the 56 reported in 2015, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has said. The number of deaths on farms remained high, with 21 reported in 2016, compared to 18 in 2015. Construction fatalities were down…
Read articleA manager at a plant hire firm has been jailed for two years over a crane collapse in Glasgow that killed one worker and seriously injured another. Donald Craig, 57, of Craig Services, was found guilty of health and safety breaches over the accident at Buchanan House, Port Dundas, on 20 June…
Read articleAt least one oil worker is dead, with another nine missing early on Thursday (Dec 15th), after an offshore oil rig operated by Azerbaijan’s state-run oil firm SOCAR collapsed, company officials have said. The accident was caused by 90mph winds, causing a 500-foot walkway and a cabin where workers go to rest to break off…
Read articleA building management company has been fined £120,000 after the death of a man who fell down a lift shaft. Craig Jones, 27, fell about five floors down the shaft after the lift broke down in Marsden House in Bolton town centre in August 2014. He had “lost his footing” after an item of clothing…
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