Explosion injures 3 at Kranji Water Reclamation Plant

Published in the Straits Times on Feb 25, 2012

By Jennani Durai

 

An explosion occurred at PUB's Kranji Water Reclamation Plant late on Thursday night, injuring three workers. The men were working at an empty sludge storage tank when the explosion occurred at an adjacent tank at 11.30pm that night.

They were sent immediately to the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Yishun. One of the workers was discharged on the same day and the other two - who sustained head and leg injuries respectively - are now in stable condition, said the PUB in a statement on Saturday.

There were other workers at the plant that day who were not affected by the blast, added a PUB spokesman.

Worker crushed to death in dough-mixing machine

Published in the Straits Times on Feb 20, 2012

The accident last Saturday night occurred at the Eng Bee Foodstuffs factory in Defu Lane.

First his foot got trapped. Then, the foreign worker who was cleaning a dough-mixing machine got folded in as it started churning, and he was crushed.

The 25-year-old Chinese national was pronounced dead at the scene at 11.13pm, less than 15 minutes after falling in. No one could say how exactly the accident occurred, but it is believed he had been cleaning the machine just before it happened.