Accidents and Safety
Beirut Port Silos Partly Collapse on Second Anniversary of Blast
BEIRUT — On its second anniversary, the massive port explosion that rocked Beirut in 2020 was still damaging the city, as grain silos marred in the blast partly collapsed on Thursday. Nearby, thousands of people had come to mark the day and to protest the lack of accountability for the blast, which killed more than […]
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Why Don’t Many Hotels Install Carbon Monoxide Alarms?
Diagnostic confusion also seemed to have played a role in the Sandals case. The night before they were supposed to check out, two of the people who died, Robbie Phillips, 65, a travel adviser who was actually one of the top sellers for Sandals, and her husband, Michael, 68, visited a medical facility complaining of […]
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11 Families in Senegal Welcomed Newborns. A Fire Left Them Devastated.
TIVAOUANE, Senegal — The baby boy did not yet have a name. He was only a day old on Wednesday when a fire broke out in the neonatal section of the hospital where he was born, in the holy city of Tivaouane in central Senegal. He was on the maternity ward’s third floor; his mother, […]
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Desperate for Cash, Afghans Toil in Mines That Are Deadlier Than Ever
CHINARAK COAL MINE, Afghanistan — Choking on dust, Mir Abdul Hadi emerged from the narrow mine shaft with a sack of coal hanging heavy on his back and his skin stained black. For hours he had hacked away at the coal in the dark tunnel, terrified it might collapse on him, and now he was […]
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Worker Killed in Pennsylvania Mine Collapse, State Officials Say
A worker was fatally injured in a mine collapse in Fayette County, Pa., on Friday afternoon, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection said in a statement. The department said it suspected that a portion of the mine’s roof had fallen onto equipment the miner was working with. The agency declined to identify the miner, but […]
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Victim of Berkeley Balcony Collapse Dies in Ireland
DUBLIN — A survivor of a balcony collapse that killed six students in Berkeley, Calif., in 2015 has died in a hospital in her native Dublin, her family said Monday. She was 27. The woman, Aoife Beary, died “peacefully” after “a brave battle with her injuries sustained in the Berkeley balcony collapse in California” her […]
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At Amazon Site, Tornado Collided With Company’s Peak Delivery Season
Amazon’s model of using contractors is part of a huge push that the company started in 2018 to expand its own deliveries, rather than rely solely on shipping companies like UPS. The company built a network of delivery stations, like the one Edwardsville, which are typically cavernous, single-story buildings. Unlike Amazon’s massive, multistory fulfillment centers […]
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A Mine Disaster in Russia Highlights Safety Shortfalls in Rush to Dig Coal
MOSCOW — In the days before his death in a mine explosion in Russia’s coal-rich Kuzbass region, Boris Piyalkin lamented that the safety standards in his workplace were inadequate. “He sat and cried, and was just scared,” said Anzhelika Piyalkina, the daughter-in-law of Mr. Piyalkin, who had spent three decades working as a miner but […]
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