Worker killed after being buried alive at Ipoh cement plant


IPOH: A worker died after being buried alive while he was breaking hardened cement at at a manhole of a silo of a cement factory in Kinta district here on Monday (Aug 14).

The Perak Occupational Safety and Health Department (JKKP) Director's Office in a statement here on Wednesday (Aug 16) said that when the incident happened at about 3.15pm, the 26-year-old man along with two colleagues were working to break hardened cement at the manhole of the cement silo using sledgehammers and iron rods.

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