Workplace Accident (Brodie's Finger)
My brother got his hand caught in a jointer. The skin was stuck to the gauze, so we had to redress it.
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China's Industrial Accidents Quietly on the Rise- From Time
The explosion site at a plastics factory in Nanjing, China, on July 28, 2010
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A massive explosion in a southern Chinese city is only the latest in a series of industrial accidents that have hit China in recent weeks. While the country’s economic boom has always been dogged by environmental and safety hazards, the frequency of disasters this summer has raised new questions about whether the country can maintain its pace of expansion without doing catastrophic harm to its people and the environment. “These accidents are happening all over China, and the scale … has become larger and larger,” says Wen Bo, a senior fellow with the San Francisco–based NGO Pacific Environment. “You see something you have never seen before, and then you see it again on a larger and larger scale.”
...industrial accidents in 2010 - News
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KOTA KINABALU: National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Niosh) reports a drop in industrial accidents and casualties in Sabah from year 2009 to 2011.
Niosh chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said the number of cases has reduced from 232 cases in 2009, 184 cases in 2010 and 112 cases last year.
Lee also reported a drastic drop in fatal accidents from 33 cases in 2009, 28 cases in 2010 and 13 cases in Sabah last year.
Since the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 was passed, Lee said there has been an obvious drop in industrial accidents from 35,616 cases in 2010, compared to 75, 386 cases in 2000.
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