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| Worker dies in vacuum truck accident at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant | |
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| skibboy | 8 Aug 2015, 11:01 PM Post #1 |
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Worker dies in vacuum truck accident at Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant JIJI AUG 8, 2015 Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday a worker at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant died the same day after his head was caught by the cover of a tank on a vacuum truck that is being used in work to contain radioactive water at the plant. The accident occurred at around 6:30 a.m., when the man, 52, was cleaning the truck. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The man worked for a subcontractor of general contractor Kajima Corp., according to Tepco. Another worker was carrying out an operation to close the cover. The Fukushima Prefectural Police are investigating the cause of the accident. The vacuum truck was being used in the construction of an ice wall aimed at stopping groundwater from flowing into damaged reactor buildings at the disaster-stricken plant and mixing with contaminated water. Another worker died in March 2014 at the No. 1 plant, the site of the 2011 triple-meltdown accident, after he was buried under mud during work to reinforce a waste storage facility. And in January this year, a third fatality occurred when a worker accidentally fell from the top of a 10-meter-high tank used to store rainwater. Source:
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