Workers used bare hands to help reach the dead at ArcelorMittal plant The three employees were found dead hours after the explosion 19 February 2021 - 20:10 By Mpumzi Zuzile and Shonisani Tshikalange Three workers were buried under rubble after an incident at ArcelorMittal s plant in Vanderbijlpark. Image: SUPPLIED: NUMSA
“When we retrieved the first body, I had hope that my two colleagues were still alive.”
These were the thoughts of an ArcelorMittal employee as piles of rubble were cleared, some of it with bare hands, after the collapse of a 90-metre stack at the steel producer s plant in Vanderbijlpark on Tuesday.
“Hours later, when we retrieved the second body in a worse state than the first one I lost energy and hope,” the employee told TimesLIVE.
Skipper saves five people trapped in upturned boat
11 Feb, 2021 06:11 PM
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The skipper of Henerata helped passengers survive capsize. Photo / Transport Accident Investigation Commission
Otago Daily Times
A skipper dove under an upturned vessel to open a hatch to help five trapped passengers escape when a boat capsized at Paterson Inlet near Stewart Island in 2019.
A Transport Accident Investigation Commission report into the September 12 incident was released yesterday.
It said the skipper, who was also the owner of the Rakiura Charters water taxi Henerata, then assisted the passengers through the forward hatch out of the upturned hull.
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