India: 8 workers die as elevator in river link tunnel work snaps

Eight workers were killed after an elevator carrying them snapped and plunged 210 feet down during the ongoing tunneling work for the Bhima-Nira river linking project near village Akole at Bhigwan, about 115km from here, in Indapur taluka of Pune district around 6.30pm on Monday. The toll could go up, police said. A police officer said a probe was on
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Mother and toddler take a tumble down on an escalator and are soon followed by grandmother who also trips as she tries to help them A woman was following her mother up an escalator with her daughter on stroller She failed to secure the stroller and fell backwards on the moving stairs Her elderly mother
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Kone lift workers have won a 16% pay rise after a six-week campaign. About 200 Kone employees voted to accept in principle the much-improved company offer. The breakthrough came after ETU and AMWU members took five four-day and one six-day stoppages over six weeks. Workers will soon receive a 5% increase in pay backdated to
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Finnish elevator company Kone has launched a program to support profitable growth, which will result in reducing about 1,000 employees worldwide, the company said on Tuesday. The program is aimed to accelerate the execution of its Winning with Customers strategy to support profitable growth, issued at the beginning of 2017, announced Kone in a press
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Late on Thursday, a video of the moment a Saudi man saved a child who was hanging from the top of a mall escalator went viral on social media. In it, the child, who seems to have been left unattended, is seen walking towards the escalator. He then reaches out and puts both his hands
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The worker, from China, reportedly made a mistake while working on the lift The elevator suddenly went up, which caused the man to be trapped in a gap Rescuers saved him within minutes after arriving and took him to the hospital A Chinese engineer has been saved after getting himself trapped between a lift and the
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A huge alligator stunned supermarket shoppers by walking to the store and heading down an escalator – but he didn’t make it out alive. The store which only just re-opened after renovations was full of staff and visitors when the animal took a walk. The captive-bred animal had been bought by the shopping centre’s owners from a farm and had been
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A male is dead following an industrial accident in the elevator shaft of a downtown building. The incident occurred at a building near St. George and Russell streets just before 10 a.m. Paramedics say that the male was pronounced dead on scene. A second person sustained minor injuries in the accident and was transported to
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KONE, a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, has won an order to supply 112 elevators and escalators to Guangzhou Panyu Guangsheng Wanbo City, a mixed-use development in the Wanbo Central Business District planned to include commercial, office, hotel, and residential space.KONE will install 26 KONE MonoSpace® elevators and 38 KONE MiniSpace® elevators,
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Man was working at a building in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Oriole Road A man has died after an elevator accident at a building under construction in midtown Toronto on Friday afternoon. The man was working on a job site in the area of St. Clair Avenue West and Oriole Road
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