Accidents - workplace

Malaysian worker dies after slipping into grinding belt of machinery

His workmates who saw the incident quickly switched off the machine before getting him out.

Locked door to roof, toxic gas blamed for deaths in Bangladesh factory fire

The site where a fire swept through a chemical warehouse and a garment factory in Mirpur's Shialbari area, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Oct 15.

Woman taken to hospital after right hand got trapped in sugar cane machine in Clementi

The person’s hand was subsequently released from the juicer and the person was taken to National University Hospital.

Worker injured after being hit by crane at Sin Ming BTO construction site

The crane boom broke and the jib fell to the ground, hitting the worker who was on site.

Death toll from Indonesian school collapse rises to 65, search continues

Rescuers gather near the site of a building collapse on Monday, where people remained trapped according to disaster mitigation agency, as the search and rescue operations continue at Al Khoziny Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java province, Indonesia, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/Dipta Wahyu

Death toll from Indonesia school collapse rises to 37

Rescuers searching for victims of a collapsed building at an Islamic boarding school in Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, on Oct 3, 2025.

Indonesia school collapse death toll rises to 17

Rescue teams move debris from the collapsed building onto trucks as search and rescue operations continue at the site of a collapsed school in Sidoarjo, East Java province.

MOM probing death of domestic worker believed to have fallen while cleaning windows

The police said they received a call for assistance at Toa Payoh Lorong 7 Block 9 at 8am on Sept 25.

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Rescuers carrying an injured woman in Ilo-Ilo city, after an earthquake hit the central Philippines on Sept 30.

Nine killed in accident at power station in India’s Chennai

A steel arch collapsed at a construction site at the Ennore SEZ Supercritical Thermal Power Project, in the city of Chennai.

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