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January 13, 2009 Tuesday
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Jan 13, 2009
Falling pipe kills worker
By Teh Joo Lin
A FALLING pipe hit an Indonesian worker in a shipyard near the West Coast yesterday morning, killing him.

The 38-year-old, said to be a driller employed by an oil-rig subcontractor, died on the spot at the PPL Shipyard in Pandan Road.

He was on a 72m-long oil-drilling rig when the 10m-long pipe was being lifted overhead by machinery during tests.

Read Teh Joo Lin's full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.

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