aug 28 - the straits times · 10/9/2016  · sources: st file, wshc, mom photos: dalene low, mano...

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A foreign lorry driver, 25, was killed in a

collision between his vehicle, a tipper truck and a van in Woodlands Road near Yew Tee Industrial Estate.

A worker was patching up holes on a viaduct �oor on the Tuas West Extension of the

East-West MRT Line when a colleague drove a forklift into him.

Bangladeshi worker Riyade Hussain, 23, was killed at a rail depot off Mandai Road by a falling steel truss while he was unloading

the trusses from a lorry.

A worker at Kee Seng Road was carrying out carpentry works on the roof level. He was climbing down a scaffold when he fell about

13 �oors to his death.

• A worker was electrocuted by the high-pressure water jet machine he was using to clean an outdoor pavement.

• A worker, 78, was found unconscious at the lift lobby of a factory. He later died in hospital.

A worker was found dead inside a conveyor, the gear sprocket bearings of which he had been greasing.

A foreign worker, 43, died at a Kranji Link worksite after a stack of bored pile casings collapsed on him, pinning him against the

tracks of a piling machine. The casings had been knocked over by an excavator’s bucket. His 33-year-old colleague was arrested.

A worker, 26, was working on the roof of a loading bay in Benoi Road when he fell through a skylight.

A taxi driver was making payment at the cashier booth after refuelling his taxi, when his taxi moved forward, pinning him

against the door.

A female worker, 33, was found caught in a palletiser machine in a Gul Circle factory.

A worker was unloading traf�c cones from a lorry on an expressway when an oncoming tipper truck collided into a nearby

truck, which moved forward and struck him.

A Malaysian worker, 30, was at the bottom of a shaft at a Marina South worksite when a lifting machine hoisted by an excavator

fell out of its slings and struck him.

A worker died after falling from a 1.8m A-frame ladder while cleaning the glass panels of a shelf.

A motorcyclist collided into a stationary trailer in Shun Li Industrial Park and died four days later.

A river taxi caught �re along the Singapore River. Its steersman Ong Hock Long, who was in his 30s, jumped into the water. His

body was recovered from the river the next day.

A condominium security of�cer was found unconscious on the ground near his guard post. He died in hospital the next day.

A construction worker building a stairwell in Tuas died after being hit by a chain that snapped and swung into him.

A prime mover, towing a trailer with an empty container, collided into a tree along Jalan Buroh. The driver died in hospital later that day.

A worker helping to unload cargo from a vessel docked at Jurong Port was killed after a bundle of steel bars that were being moved

slammed into him.

A worker, 38, was found inside an industrial food mixer in a shophouse unit.

A worker, 39, was assembling the casing of an air conditioning unit when he fell off a ladder.

A worker, 33, from China, fell seven storeys to his death at Mega@Woodlands construction site.

A worker died after being struck by a falling metal pipe when it got dislodged from the hook of the crane lifting it.

A worker was crushed to death between his excavator and the hydraulic arm of another heavy vehicle.

Underwater World Singapore head diver Philip Chan (below), 62, was preparing animals for transfer to a new aquarium when he

was stung in the chest by a stingray.

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