Worker knocked off cherry picker dies

Published in the Straits Times on Jun 11, 2012

By Jennani Durai

A Bangladeshi worker died in hospital on Friday, a day after the cherry picker he was in hit an overhead bridge, throwing him to the ground.

Mr Nazrul Ali, 29, suffered head injuries from the 4m fall, as the cherry picker was at the time extended to its full height.

He is believed to have been hanging advertising banners from lamp posts when the lorry on which the cherry picker was mounted attempted to pass under an overhead bridge along Cantonment Road, near the Pinnacle@Duxton.

Mr Nazrul died in the Singapore General Hospital.

Bangladeshi worker killed after concrete slab falls on him

Source: AsiaOne Sunday, Mar 11, 2012

A Bangladeshi worker was killed at a Downtown MRT Line construction site near Botanic Gardens yesterday morning after a concrete slab fell on him.

The Straits Times reported that 35-year-old Masud Al Mamun was operating an excavator deep in the ground when the slab fell on him at the construction site along Evans Road, off Bukit Timah Road.

Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) rescuers had to use a breaking tool kit to break a portion of the concrete slab. It took them nearly five hours to reach the man lying motionless on the ground.
A 10-tonne jack and two airbags were used to stabilise the concrete slab before they could remove Mr Masud Al Mamun. He was pronounced dead at about 9am.

According to the English daily, Mr Masud Al Mamun was with another worker at the lowest level of the site, three to four storeys below ground, when the accident happened. They had been tasked to remove the concrete slab, which later fell on Mr Mamun. The other worker had managed to move away in time as he saw soil crumbling from above. He was not injured.