#construction-safety

#construction-safety

A pane of glass plummeted more than 400 feet from a Midtown skyscraper, crashing down onto the sidewalk and street below early Sunday morning, city officials said. The 4-foot-by-6-foot pane fell from 1345 Sixth Ave., a 50-story, 2 million-square-foot tower at W. 54th St., around 7 a.m., according to the city's Department of Buildings. No one was injured by the glass, though police blocked off the sidewalk as first responders gathered.

A pane of glass plummeted more than 400 feet from a Midtown skyscraper, crashing down onto the sidewalk and street below early Sunday morning, city officials said. The 4-foot-by-6-foot pane fell from 1345 Sixth Ave., a 50-story, 2-million-square-foot tower at W. 54th St., around 7 a.m., according to the city's Department of Buildings. No one was injured by the glass, though police blocked off the sidewalk as first responders gathered.

National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) chief Suharyanto told reporters on Saturday that rescuers found nine bodies on Friday, raising the death toll to 14. As of today, we are still searching for 49 people who are still missing, said Suharyanto, who goes by one name, as reported by broadcaster Kompas TV. More victims could be found, Suharyanto said, as rescuers moved to use heavy machinery to clear locations where the victims were believed to be buried underneath the rubble.

Makeshift scaffolding set up at a church in Ethiopia has collapsed, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens, state media reported. The incident occurred at about 7:45am [4:45 GMT] on Wednesday in the town of Arerti, in the Amhara region, some 70 kilometres (43 miles) east of the capital, Addis Ababa. A group of pilgrims were visiting the Menjar Shenkora Arerti Mariam Church to mark the annual Virgin Mary festival when the scaffolding collapsed.

Elon Musk's Boring Company has reportedly stopped work on a tunnel it's been digging to the Las Vegas airport after a worker sustained a "crushing injury" late Wednesday night, according to Fortune. Nevada's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has opened an investigation. The Clark County Fire Department received a call at 10:12 p.m. local time on Wednesday and dispatched an 18-person rescue crew to the site.

Thirty-one workers were safely rescued after a tunnel collapse at the Clearwater Tunneling Project in Wilmington, with no visible injuries reported. The workers were provided medical assessments following their extraction by emergency responders.