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October 17, 2002 19:55
A Norfolk workman remains in a "critical" condition in hospital after being crushed in a collapsed trench. The accident happened at lunchtime on Wednesday as a team of workers from Peterborough-based Barhill Construction laid pipes for a first-time sewerage scheme on behalf of Anglian Water at Gorefield, near Wisbech. Steven Wagg, 36, of Old Hunstanton Road, Old Hunstanton, was working in the trench when it appears to have collapsed under the weight of a dumper truck parked nearby. Firefighters were called to the site in Back Lane but Mr Wagg had been pulled clear of the hole by colleagues by the time they arrived. He was taken by ambulance to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn with multiple broken ribs and breathing difficulties and remained in intensive care last night. The Health and Safety Executive has launched an investigation into the accident
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UPDATE Firm fined £8,000 over near escape
by ALISON BELLAMY
A CONSTRUCTION company was fined £8,000 after a dumper truck overturned on a building site in Leeds. A man driving the truck escaped uninjured. Morrison Construction admitted putting labourer Anthony Mongey at risk during work at Headingley Water Treatment Work on May 16 last year. The city magistrates were told that Mr Mongey, 59, was working as a sub-contractor for the national company, which was building a concrete water tank at Yorkshire Water's site at Otley Road. The work was being carried out in partnership with Earth-Tech Engineering. Mr Mongey drove the eight-tonne truck on a one- in-four gradient, a manoeuvre that was against safety advice. It overturned. He was taken to the accident and emergency department at Leeds General Infirmary but was uninjured and returned to work four hours later. Sarah Hague, HM inspector for Health and Safety, said: "There was certainly potential for a fatal accident here. Dumpers on gradient feature prominently on accidents of this sort. "The company has co-operated fully with the HSE investigation." Paul Burnley, for Morrison Construction, which has 100 sites nationally and employs 1,900 people plus 200 sub-contractors, said: "Mr Mongey, who has 40 years' experience in the construction industry, was unscratched. Although a sub-contractor, he had been on a full induction course. "Despite safety training , procedures were not followed. "The company was obviously shocked at what happened. An internal investigation was held and this incident is now used in training sessions." The firm was also ordered to pay £1,409 costs.

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Dumper truck accident at air base
The civilian driver of a dumper truck involved in an accident recently at RAF KInloss, Moray, is reported to be in a stable condition in hospital after he sustained head injuries in what, according to one account, was a fall from his vehicle. He is said to be an employee of contracting organisation Turner's.

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Dumper mows down 4 in sleep

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MUMBAI, Jan 18: In a mishap that brought back the memories of accidents involving celebrity sons Puru Rajkumar over two years back in the city, and more recently Sanjeev Nanda in Delhi, a speeding dumper ran over sleeping pavement dwellers killing four and injuring six, including three children, at Vile Parle early this morning.

The mishap happened at around 2.50 am at Hanuman Road when the dumper driver lost control over the vehicle and ran over some rag-pickers sleeping on the footpath.

The speeding dumper crushed the skulls of two women, a teenage girl and a man and injured three children, two men and a woman.

The injured have admitted to the Cooper Hospital, where their condition is reported to be critical. The dumper driver, who had escaped after the accident, gave himself up at the Vile-Parle police station late in the evening.

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KARACHI: Three men die in accidents
By Our Staff Reporter

KARACHI, June 9: Three persons died in separate road accident in different parts of the city on Tuesday.

A young man, Rizwan, 22, died and three others were injured when a speeding bus of route 4J (JO-0271) rammed into a roadside cabin in New Karachi. An enraged mob later set the bus on fire.

The errant driver, who had escaped from the scene soon after the accident, was arrested at the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre, where he had gone for treatment, police said.

Two of the three persons, injured in the accident, were identified as Rashid, 25, and Abdul Latif, 40, while the other person could not be identified immediately. They were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.In Lyari, a 60-year-old unidentified man was knocked down by a heavy vehicle knocked.

Police said that the man was hit by a dumper belonging to the city government. The victim's body was shifted to the Civil Hospital for postmortem, they added. A man, Zaheer Ahmed, 18, was run over by a speeding vehicle in Gadap.

Police said Zaheer Ahmed was a motor mechanic at a workshop in Khatoor Morr. They said that the errant driver was apprehended on the spot, but was later released due to his influential personality.The victim's body was shifted to the JPMC for postmortem examination, police added.

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IT all happens on the canals.
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Another area that I feel needs looking at is site safety. It's all very well co-operating with BW, the Waterways Trust, the Health & Safety Executive or whoever to run training in safe working practices - and I know canal volunteers need to keep up with all the latest safety legislation. But let's face it: it doesn't really fit with the 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know' image that WRGies revel in.

You only have to listen to the same bunch of WRG volunteers in the pub for a few more minutes, and they'll be reminiscing about that time in 1974 when they used too much dynamite to knock down a lock-side and inadvertently demolished the lock-cottage too, or the time the local organiser arrived in the pub on a dumper - through the wall!

Of course none of them actually want to go back to having accidents in unsafe vehicles - but maybe they'd like just a little bit to go back to appearing to be the sort of people who might have conceivably get involved in the odd scrape or two. But it's hard to be a hell-raiser in a hi-vis vest and safety helmet, sitting strapped-in on a dumper with a roll-cage fitted, with a CITB training certificate in your pocket.

So I have a few suggestions that - while keeping working practices safe - will help to keep the 'rebel without a hard-hat' image going. Starting with a 'hard-wig': what looks like a typical 1970s-relic long-haired navvy is actually wearing full head protection underneath his shaggy mane. And fitting all vehicles with red seat-belts that don't show up against a WRG T-shirt.

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