Workplace Safety

An elevator operator of SM City The Block in Quezon City died after falling from the mall’s fifth floor on Saturday morning.

A 29-year-old delivery boy was killed while repairing a truck in Malabon City Friday. The victim was identified as Abegael Royo.

MANILA, Philippines – A 22-year-old helper died while three others were injured when several glass panels fell on them in Caloocan City on Thursday.

ITOGON, Benguet, Philippines – Two small-scale miners died of suffocation in a tunnel in this town on Tuesday. Edgar Santos, 29, of Alicia town in Isabela, and Jordan Cortez, 25, of Mountain Province, were found inside the tunnel located in Barangay Tuding.

A 46-year-old construction foreman was killed in a freak accident in Quezon City Sunday, police said yesterday.

ITOGON, Benguet – A miner died of suffocation after he was trapped in a tunnel in this town on Saturday. Cesar Agustin Paler of Nueva Ecija was about to get out of the tunnel along with his companion Oliver Bunoten when he decided to return to get some ore samples.

MANILA, Philippines – A 22-year-old worker died and another was injured when 47 panels of window glass fell on them in Binondo, Manila Saturday.

TUBA, Benguet – A 40-year old construction worker died after he allegedly drowned in the famous Colorado falls at Twin Peaks here around 3:30 pm Saturday.

The Department of Labor and Employment and the Department of Public Works and Highways have signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) aimed at improving the process of approving Construction Safety and Health Programs—a fundamental requirement for all construction operations.

BATANGAS, Philippines – A 35-year-old woman died and three others were injured when a fire gutted a restaurant and a bakery in Batangas City Tuesday night.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stopped the construction of a power plant in Iloilo City due to an accident that resulted in the death of a worker.

TUGUEGARAO CITY, Philippines – A 35-year-old carpenter died while a student is fighting for his life in separate incidents of electrocution in Cauayan, Isabela on Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has stopped the demolition of the old Burnham Hotel in Baguio City.

A 22-year-old construction worker died of electrocution at a construction site in Quezon City Tuesday afternoon, police said yesterday.

A 59-year-old carpenter was electrocuted in Quezon City Saturday, police said yesterday. Police identified the 59-year-old victim as Diego Carlos Medina, of Cainta, Rizal.

The iconic Burnham Hotel was being demolished by workers when the accident took place BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – A worker was killed and at least 3 others were hurt when one of the walls of the condemned Burnham Hotel collapsed late Saturday morning, September 26. Police said that construction workers of Alfonso Lao Construction were…

A SMALL-SCALE miner died while another was injured when the tunnel where they work collapsed in the province of Zamboanga Sibugay, the police reported on Friday.

ITOGON, Benguet – Another small-scale miner died of gas poisoning inside a private mine tunnel in Sitio Macaag, Itogon, Benguet, barely a week after four miners also died of the same cause in this town.

MANILA – A construction worker died while his five co-workers were injured after a wall of an old hotel toppled over them at F. Calderon Street corner Session Road in Baguio City, Saturday morning

CAMP DANGWA, Benguet – Four pocket miners died in two separate incidents of gas poisoning inside mine tunnels in Itogon town Sunday afternoon, according to police.

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna, Philippines – A telephone lineman reportedly died of suffocation as he was repairing communication cables in a manhole in Kawit, Cavite before dawn yesterday.

CANDON CITY, Ilocos Sur – Local rescuers have recovered the bodies of two miners buried alive in a landslide in Barangay Ucab, Itogon, Benguet Friday, police said yesterday.

A 63-year-old roof installer fell to his death while working in Mandaluyong City Friday, police said yesterday. Reports from the Mandaluyong police station identified the victim as Dominador Mendoza of Barangay Pinagbuhatan, Pasig City.

MANILA, Philippines – A 46-year-old truck driver in Manila died after a parked truck he was fixing in Tondo, Manila moved and pinned him to a post before dawn yesterday.

A 53-year-old electrician was electrocuted while renovating a store in a mall in Quezon City Thursday, police said yesterday. Reports reaching the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit identified the victim as Avelino Obeja Jr., married, of Laong Almanza Ville, Almanza 1, Las Piñas City.

In the aftermath of the Semirara mining accident, labor officials say that mine safety and sanitation are under the mandate of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau and the Department of Energy

Search and retrieval operations for three miners lost in a mine collapse on Semirara Island in Antique are being hampered by the sheer amount of soil that equipment has to dig through.

LA TRINIDAD, Benguet – Two pocket miners died of gas poisoning while another one died in a landslide in separate mining sites in Tublay and Itogon towns.

An official of the local government of Caluya, Antique on Saturday announced the retrieval and identification of a fifth victim of a mining site accident. The body of Bernie Manrique, 39, was found during retrieval operations at 3:40 a.m. Saturday, Pauline Rose L. Geroche, municipal information officer of Caluya, said. “We now have five (5)…

Authorities extricated on Saturday another body under the rubble of the collapsed mine wall at Semirara coal mine in Caluya, Antique, bringing the total number of fatalities to six, while three others have remained missing, a report from GMA’s “24 Oras” said.