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SINGAPORE \u2013 A company whose employees were injured while attempting to replace a manhole cover<\/span><\/a> on a pavement has been instructed by the Ministry of Manpower to stop all similar work until the cause of the incident has been established and measures are in place to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n Two workers from Hong Hock Global were injured when a flash fire occurred in a sewer manhole in Tuas on the morning of July 10.<\/p>\n The workers were carrying out replacement works on a manhole cover near the junction of Jalan Buroh and Pioneer Road. The fire broke out while they were hacking the cement around the manhole, said MOM in response to queries from The Straits Times.<\/p>\n The pair suffered burn injuries and were taken to the Singapore General Hospital. One worker has been discharged, while the other remains warded for observation, said MOM.<\/p>\n Besides instructing the company to stop work, MOM has also directed Hong Hock Global to review and strengthen its risk assessment and safety procedures for such works before they resume.<\/p>\n MOM said: \u201cUnderground infrastructure such as sewerage and waste pipes are known to produce flammable gases.<\/p>\n \u201cEmployers carrying out works on such infrastructure must conduct comprehensive risk assessments before work commences and implement appropriate risk-control measures to protect workers against fire and explosion hazards.<\/p>\n \u201cWorkers should also be adequately briefed on the hazards and safe-work procedures and be provided with the necessary supervision.\u201d<\/p>\n MOM added that it is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE \u2013 A company whose employees were injured while attempting to replace a manhole cover on a pavement has been instructed by the Ministry of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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