Trapped Workers

Preliminary investigations suggest that asphyxiation due to oxygen deprivation was the probable cause of death.

A 32-year-old worker died after he got trapped in a conveyor belt at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, police said on Saturday.

Tragedy struck at a construction site in Balmatta area here on Wednesday as one worker died and another was critically injured when they were trapped in a pit after loose soil fell on them, officials said.

A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa's coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in the rubble, the city hall said.

A bull jumps into a mobile shop in India, causing chaos and trapping two repairmen inside. The incident was captured on CCTV and the viral video shows the men trying to escape as bystanders attempt to help.

Russian emergency workers on Monday ended a rescue operation at a mine in the country's Far East where 13 workers have been trapped for two weeks, state media reported.

The bodies of two construction workers were found in the cold waters of Baltimore harbor Wednesday, trapped in their red pick-up truck after a giant cargo ship slammed into the bridge they had been filling potholes on, causing a thunderous collapse.

A group of men who rescued 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand were honoured with NDTV's India's Heroes Award.

"I really cannot believe the maintenance team patched my cat into the freaking wall!" the woman wrote in the caption, expressing her disbelief.

Brijkishore, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, was among the 11 workers who were charred to death late on Thursday evening after they got trapped in the factory, the shutter of which was locked from inside.

Several workers, including women, are feared trapped inside a cosmetic manufacturing factory in the Baddi industrial area of Himachal Pradesh's Solan district following a fierce fire that broke out on Friday afternoon, officials said.

Construction has resumed on an Indian tunnel that collapsed last year, trapping 41 workers for 17 days -- with at least one of those men back on the job, reports Tuesday said.

At least five workers were said to be trapped inside a hand glove manufacturing company in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar where a massive fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday.

The rat-hole miners who played a vital role in evacuating 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel have refused to encash the cheques of Rs 50,000 given to them recently by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday praised the leadership and unshakeable spirit of tunnel foreman Gabbar Singh Negi, who emerged as a leader among the 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand for over two weeks.

Preliminary investigations suggest that asphyxiation due to oxygen deprivation was the probable cause of death.

A 32-year-old worker died after he got trapped in a conveyor belt at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, police said on Saturday.

Tragedy struck at a construction site in Balmatta area here on Wednesday as one worker died and another was critically injured when they were trapped in a pit after loose soil fell on them, officials said.

A multi-storey building under construction in South Africa's coastal city of George collapsed on Monday trapping about 48 workers in the rubble, the city hall said.

A bull jumps into a mobile shop in India, causing chaos and trapping two repairmen inside. The incident was captured on CCTV and the viral video shows the men trying to escape as bystanders attempt to help.

Russian emergency workers on Monday ended a rescue operation at a mine in the country's Far East where 13 workers have been trapped for two weeks, state media reported.

The bodies of two construction workers were found in the cold waters of Baltimore harbor Wednesday, trapped in their red pick-up truck after a giant cargo ship slammed into the bridge they had been filling potholes on, causing a thunderous collapse.

A group of men who rescued 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand were honoured with NDTV's India's Heroes Award.

"I really cannot believe the maintenance team patched my cat into the freaking wall!" the woman wrote in the caption, expressing her disbelief.

Brijkishore, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh, was among the 11 workers who were charred to death late on Thursday evening after they got trapped in the factory, the shutter of which was locked from inside.

Several workers, including women, are feared trapped inside a cosmetic manufacturing factory in the Baddi industrial area of Himachal Pradesh's Solan district following a fierce fire that broke out on Friday afternoon, officials said.

Construction has resumed on an Indian tunnel that collapsed last year, trapping 41 workers for 17 days -- with at least one of those men back on the job, reports Tuesday said.

At least five workers were said to be trapped inside a hand glove manufacturing company in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar where a massive fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday.

The rat-hole miners who played a vital role in evacuating 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel have refused to encash the cheques of Rs 50,000 given to them recently by Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday praised the leadership and unshakeable spirit of tunnel foreman Gabbar Singh Negi, who emerged as a leader among the 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed Silkyara tunnel in Uttarakhand for over two weeks.