60 reportedly injured after Jurong Shipyard jackup rig tilts
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Posted: 03 December 2012 1442 hrs
SINGAPORE: About 60 workers are believed to have been injured when a jackup rig at Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday.
The injured are said to have been sent to the National University Hospital (NUH) and Alexandra Hospital.
Channel NewsAsia understands that at least five of the injured will be warded at NUH for observation.
Channel NewsAsia also understands that most of the injured workers are from India and Bangladesh.
A caller to the MediaCorp hotline, Mr Eric Tan, said he learnt from a friend who works at the shipyard that there are at least 50 casualties.
Details of the incident are not available yet.
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cheaper, faster...better?
yep now bagus sia!
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Yeap, some foreign workers if they unhappy with the management, they care less about safety, efficiency and productivity. They could even purposely do a poor job on the project knowing that through time it would be damaged or destroyed. That is sabotage. Maybe MRT system was like that too.
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they cum hee earn money only. and investors businesses also earn money only. there will be a problem, all products and service will not be deep from the heart. that is not fruits of the heart but rather fruts of greed.
hire more cheap trash lah - sg gonna go downhill.
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from ST:
At least 40 workers are believed to be injured when a jackup rig at Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday.
Two workers are believed to be missing, according to Shin Min Daily News.
About 2,ooo workers who were working on the rig at the time of the accident, said the report. Some workers said they heard loud explosions and some cables snapped, causing the rig to tilt to one side.
According to Shin Min, some tried to escape by jumping off the rig into the sea.
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About 90 workers were injured when a jackup rig at Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday.
Among them, 22 were seriously injured and one is still in a critical condition. The rest suffered minor injuries.
The accident happened at Jurong Shipyard Pte Ltd worksite at Tanjong Kling Road.
Preliminary findings showed that the three-legged jackup rig tilted to one side after the jack-up mechanism of one of the legs failed to work, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Manpower (MOM).
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I just heard about the news.
Just contacted my boss to see if any of my colleagues were involved.
I was on board another customer's rig at jurong shipyard about 3 weeks back.
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wa knn, this is really jialat.
equipment failure.
Just reinforces how dangerous ship yards are.
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Some of my colleagues were on board but none were hurt.
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Those 2 bollocks who put blame on foreigners abt this incident are another 2 ignorant people that I've seen today. They must be working deskbound in airconditioned office and just put blame on anything they can put the blame on without having knowledge. Didn't they know shipyards, oil-&-gas industry practise & enforce high level safety and quality? This rig might be installed in the deep sea to extract oil for goodness sake.. Foreigners have nothing to do with safety here duhh!
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some ppl constipate oso blame foreigners/govt de
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Originally posted by 8882:
Those 2 bollocks who put blame on foreigners abt this incident are another 2 ignorant people that I've seen today. They must be working deskbound in airconditioned office and just put blame on anything they can put the blame on without having knowledge. Didn't they know shipyards, oil-&-gas industry practise & enforce high level safety and quality? This rig might be installed in the deep sea to extract oil for goodness sake.. Foreigners have nothing to do with safety here duhh!
I stopped short of commenting on their replies, because I rather they remain ignorant and oblivious to that fact.
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The Jurong shipyard accident which left 89 workers injured is "one of the worst accidents" in Singapore, said Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Manpower Hawazi Daipi.
The Manpower Ministry, which has halted work at the rig, will conduct a thorough investigation. The incident is a reminder to employers that safety is of utmost importance, said Mr Hawazi who visited injured workers at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH).
Some 89 workers were injured when a jackup rig at Jurong Shipyard tilted to one side on Monday. They were sent to hospitals; 77 has since been discharged.
Six remain in normal wards while another six are under observation.
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That rig was due for delivery in the 2nd quarter of 2013. Seems the only way to get it out of that jam, is to borrow the 2 heavyweights from keppel.
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Originally posted by 8882:
This rig might be installed in the deep sea to extract oil for goodness sake
From what I read, the rig is not handover yet and still at berth. So should not be in deep sea at the moment (afterall within SG sea, there no oil to extract). Since it is not handover yet, it should be still around pre-commissioning or commissioning phase as it is one month before handover. Anyway, this look more like an engineering issue that cause this failure (can be due to human during design/installation/commissioning etc). -
we should probably wait for the investigations to be out.
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Manpower Minister Tan Chuan Jin on Tuesday, praised the evacuation efforts at the Jurong Shipyard where an industrial accident a day before had sent more than 1,000 workers scurrying out of an oil rig for safety.
Mr Tan said he was encouraged that all the workers on the rig had been evacuated within 20 minutes.
He made the remarks during a visit to the shipyard on Tuesday, where he received a briefing about what had happened on Monday.
The Straits Times understands that the rig has since been stablised although it is not known when attempts will be made to raise up the parts of it that has been submerged.
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I wish fireice died there lol. Kiding.
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Originally posted by Uraniumfish:
I wish fireice died there lol. Kiding.
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Originally posted by [imdestinyz]:
we should probably wait for the investigations to be out.
so what if the o-level results are out. whatever works going on there done by who? i can say 90% to be conservative mayb truth even 99.9% done by cheap faster 'better' foreign labor. and the planning engieering i bet some of our foreugn 'talents' also involved.tell me now am i wrong to say its really
cheaper, faster (too fast), bagus?
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Originally posted by Lazybumy:
From what I read, the rig is not handover yet and still at berth. So should not be in deep sea at the moment (afterall within SG sea, there no oil to extract). Since it is not handover yet, it should be still around pre-commissioning or commissioning phase as it is one month before handover. Anyway, this look more like an engineering issue that cause this failure (can be due to human during design/installation/commissioning etc).
what if design and engineering no issue? what if its a poor weld or imappropriate equipment installation? workers dont know how to interpret or never do as per instructed?, AND even shit the inspectors failed to catch the problem or skipped some aras of checking? -
A failed braking system had caused the oil rig at Jurong Shipyard to lurched to one side on Monday, said Sembcorp Marine chief executive Wong Weng Sun.
Providing an update on the incident to the media on Tuesday, Mr Wong said initial investigations showed the braking system on one of the movable legs of the rig had failed, causing the platform to slide down the leg on that side.
Load tests run on the rig just a day before the accident had shown the three legs of the rig could bear a load of some 9000 tonnes each, said Mr Wong.
The company is now trying to stabilize the rig so that it can investigate the cause of the brake failure.
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maybe even want cheap until materials of spares and supplies all get from cheap cheap country one.
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Originally posted by 8882:
Those 2 bollocks who put blame on foreigners abt this incident are another 2 ignorant people that I've seen today. They must be working deskbound in airconditioned office and just put blame on anything they can put the blame on without having knowledge. Didn't they know shipyards, oil-&-gas industry practise & enforce high level safety and quality? This rig might be installed in the deep sea to extract oil for goodness sake.. Foreigners have nothing to do with safety here duhh!
I've attended the marine industry workshop at Keppel Shipyard, Sing Marine and Sembawang Shipyard in 2005. Singapore holds a big major share in the world for building, converting, renovating and repairs of sea vessels and oil rigs. And I know not many Singaporeans would like to work at the shipyard because of its hazardous occupation. I'm not working in the air-conditioning room and desk bound now. I'm into semi retirement now. However, in my last profession I was dealing with many foreign workers and I heard many of their problems about work or management treatment but I couldn't do much for them. I'm not ignorant in hard work and working under the hot sun....was working during my school holidays in the past as construction worker carrying bricks up the stairs and I was also at one time a metal roofing specialist. I don't blame the foreign workers rather their management or their superiors for not taking care good of their welfare. The foreign workers from India and Bangladesh are daily rated which is about $27 to $28 per day. Most of them not really skilled workers with experience working in the shipyard back in their own countries. 8882 wrote: "Didn't they know shipyards, oil-&-gas industry practise & enforce high level safety and quality?" Then why on earth they did the testing of the jacking mechanism on one of the legs of the oil rig knowing that there are workers onboard? Its that the correct high level safety and quality protocol practise in Singapore shipyard? Lets wait for the investigation to be over and lets hope its really 100% mechanism failure and not human negligence. This is a serious accident which could be avoided and someone really need to be responsible for it. By the way 8882, used you own registered account rather than creating a new one to response to this topic.