The worried family of a teenager who had been missing for several hours at Signal Hill in St. John’s finally got the news they most dreaded late Sunday afternoon. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said a young man in his late teens appeared to have slipped from an embankment on Signal Hill around 11:45 a.m. For several hours, police, the high-angle rescue team of the St. John’s Regional Fire Department, a fast-water rescue craft and a Universal helicopter searched the area for the missing man. The RNC reported late in the afternoon that the young man did not survive the...

Three men were rescued from at least eight stories high, after a scaffolding accident in Rockville, fire officials said. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue is on the scene of 6001 Montrose Road, where three men were hanging from harnesses while emergency crews attempted the “high angle rescue,” officials said. The accident happened at around 9:40 a.m., when the scaffolding broke away from the workers. The motor that powered the scaffold malfunctioned and the men were stuck between the eighth and ninth floors, officials said. Emergency crews are using aerial ladders to get to the...

One man died and another was in critical condition Tuesday after being exposed to chemicals at a paint manufacturing plant in Fullerton, authorities said. The men were unconscious when they were found inside a tank by a co-worker at Vista Paint, Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich told the Orange County Register (http://bit.ly/uETjAq). The co-worker, with the help of other employees, pulled the men out, Goodrich said. One man was pronounced dead at a hospital. He was identified late Tuesday by the county coroner’s office as Roberto Magdariago, 62. A second man, who police said is 45,...

It has been reported that West Sussex Fire Service crews attended the College Grounds, North Street, Midhurst after a tower crane erector was injured approximately 30m from the ground whilst dismantling the crane. The incident ”was a protracted incident due to the confined space and difficult access” which only allowed a limited number of staff and ambulance paramedics to deal with the injured man. His injuries required him to be lowered using a line and a basket stretcher from the jib of the crane involving “specialist skills and equipment and was complex in nature” The rescue took...

Appearing before the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday at its request, California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Chief Ellen Widess gave an update on an investigation into the death of two brothers killed at Community Recycling & Resource Recovery Inc. in Lamont. She said the deaths should never have happened. “This kind of confined-space death is totally preventable,” said Widess. Supervisors had been pressing Cal/OSHA for answers in its investigation that happened Oct.12. The state agency said 16-year-old Armando Ramirez was cleaning out a drainage...

An injured caver has been rescued from a disused mine in South Shropshire after a six-and-a-half hour operation. The 24-year-old was deep underground at Snailbeach near Minsterley when she had an epileptic seizure. More than 50 people from the Midlands Cave Rescue Organisation were involved in the rescue along with West Midlands Ambulance Service staff. The woman, who also injured her back, was winched 300ft to the surface and taken to hospital on Wednesday evening. A spokesman for the West Midlands Ambulance Service said the alarm had been raised by the woman’s companions just before...

Two workers performing routine maintenance in a large underground tank, were rescued today after one fell and was injured, and the other followed him down trying to try to help. At 12:06 pm on Friday, November 18, 2011, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a “Confined Space Rescue” at 3171 North Gaffey Street near Harbor City. A large response was dispatched and even more resources were called to the scene, when it was confirmed that two male employees were approximately 27 feet below ground and in need of help. The incident would require a very technical rescue to be...

FENTON TWP. — A dramatic rescue attempt in Fenton Township is not enough to save one worker who fell into a manhole. NBC25 talked with one man who risked it all to try and help some strangers from certain death. Schwan Representative Paul Burt was delivering to a home in Linden shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday when he heard the police siren. He rushed across the street to Prices Airport and found that two workers had fallen 20 feet into a manhole and were floating face down in two feet of water. He didn’t hesitate to jump in. “I was a firefighter in the military with confined...