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60 reportedly injured after Jurong Port jackup rig tilts


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This looks serious :o

 

SINGAPORE: About 60 workers are believed to have been injured when a jackup rig at Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday.

 

The injured are said to have been sent to the National University Hospital and Alexandra Hospital.

 

A caller to the MediaCorp hotline, Mr Eric Tan, said he learnt from a friend who works at the shipyard that there are at least 50 casualties.

 

Details of the incident are not available yet.

 

- CNA/xq

 

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Indeed dangerous. If the figures about 60 workers being injured are true, then it would be one of the biggest industrial accident in Singapore leow

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MOM investigators very busy lately .... [sweatdrop]

 

SMRT drivers just over and now shipyard ... [:(]

 

Different department. This one is industrial safety.

SMRT is labor law, hR related.

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wah paingz?!?!?

 

can't imagine the feeling if i'm on that scaffold right at the tip of the leg when this happened, probably scared shitless, speaking of which, really fortunate that no workers fell from that height!!!

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Different department. This one is industrial safety.

SMRT is labor law, hR related.

 

Thanks....

 

so, last week ...

 

IA Dept : Heng Ah, boh industrial accident dept a tai chi. HR dept has to settle, can plan Dec holidays go where.

 

this week ....

 

HR Dept : 'Pot don't call kettle black', boh HR a tai chi, ours over leow, IA can cancel holidays ...

 

 

[laugh][laugh][laugh]

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Wonder if it is a new rig built at the shipyard or an old rig coming here for repair... :ph34r:

 

Looks like a repair because normally for a new rig, by the time they pull it out to the wharf side from the dry dock, the hull would have been painted.

 

I did a repair and 2 new build oil rigs after graduation long time ago.

 

But this incident is strange. Normally when a rig is tilted this way, it's because one of the legs hit a gas pocket during drilling. But for it to happen at our shipyard wharfside is rare.

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