.Saturday, October 31, 2009@9:38 AM.
Kimberly Spykerman
464 words
10 August 2009
Straits Times
English
(c) 2009 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
464 words
10 August 2009
Straits Times
English
(c) 2009 Singapore Press Holdings Limited
It is second industrial death at Resorts World site in a month.
A 300KG metal pipe came crashing down on the head of a foreign worker at the Resorts World worksite at Sentosa, killing him instantly.
It is believed that Mr Annamalai Chandramani was taking a break from work on Saturday evening when the pipe, which was being moved above him, fell right onto him.
Mr Annamalai, 33, suffered multiple fractures to his neck and was pinned under the heavy pipe.
A 30-year-old worker who was at the scene told The Straits Times that there was a lot of blood.
It was the second industrial death at the Resorts World site in Sentosa in a month since work began there about two years ago.
Just last month, another foreign worker, a China national in his late 40s, died from head injuries sustained when he fell from a height of about 4.5m.
Two months ago, Lian Beng Construction was fined $100,000 for a safety lapse at the other integrated resort (IR), Marina Bay Sands, which led to the death of a worker in January last year.
The 39-year-old China national died after a brick wall collapsed on him.
The latest IR death comes amid a drive by the Government to shore up safety at worksites. In 2007 and last year, 130 workers died on-site, with more than half of them from the construction and marine industries.
About 20 of Mr Annamalai's friends and colleagues were at the mortuary yesterday as their manager identified his body. They all described him as a very nice and good person.
Mr Annamalai had come to work in Singapore six years ago from Pondicherry in India. He is married with two young children, aged four and seven.
Resorts World said the accident would not delay the completion of the integrated resort as no stop-work order had been issued so far.
The management is also working with the contractor, Siong Yu Seng Construction, and the Manpower Ministry in the investigations.
A spokesman added that they were 'deeply saddened' by the incident and were helping Mr Annamalai's family with the funeral arrangements.
His body will be flown back to his hometown.
Aside from the safety inspectors hired by the contractors, Resorts World also has an independent safety officer on-site who enforces safety measures on a daily basis, such as ensuring that workers always don their personal protection equipment and wear safety harnesses when working from height.
Mr Annamalai was supposed to have attended a special National Day dinner prepared by the Resorts World management and the contractors back at the dormitory that same evening.
happen to just read thru this article when i was doing some read ups about RWS.
and, i found it really saddening, somewhat?
i cant imagine if i died in the middle of intern when i was in Beijing.
i seriously cant imagine what will become of my parents.
okay, maybe this guy is worse than me.
his kids are still really kids.
what would become of his family?
Moreover, his family is in India.
His family condition perhaps is alrdy not too positive.
And he might just be the only bread winner at home.
fragile, very.
and, i found it really saddening, somewhat?
i cant imagine if i died in the middle of intern when i was in Beijing.
i seriously cant imagine what will become of my parents.
okay, maybe this guy is worse than me.
his kids are still really kids.
what would become of his family?
Moreover, his family is in India.
His family condition perhaps is alrdy not too positive.
And he might just be the only bread winner at home.
fragile, very.
J. @ the13thchapter
