Accidents - Other
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Topics: occupational-health-and-safety, farm-labour, accidents---other, bourke-2840, wellington-2820
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Plane disappeared from radar display twice before fatal Darwin crash, ATSB says
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The Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigates whether airspeed and poor weather played a role in a light plane crash that killed two pilots just outside of Darwin in October.
Topics: accidents---other, disasters-and-accidents, air-and-space, darwin-0800, nt
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Man dead, two injured after becoming trapped in ink vat
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One man is dead and two others are in hospital with leg injuries after an industrial accident left them trapped inside an ink vat at a manufacturing business in Sydney's west.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, disasters-and-accidents, workplace, auburn-2144, sydney-2000
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'It sounded like dynamite': One man dead, two injured after rockfall in Blue Mountains
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A 36-year-old man has died and two other men are in hospital after being caught in a landslide while working on a rockfall hazard on a closed Blue Mountains walking track.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, national-parks, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, wentworth-falls-2782
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Eight decomposed bodies found in wooden boat on Japanese beach
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The grisly discovery is the latest in what is potentially a series of accidents involving North Korean ships, which experts say could be due to food shortages in the isolated nation.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents---other, japan, korea-democratic-peoples-republic-of
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Bus explosion with 'extreme' smoke and flames on busy Sydney road
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A state public transport bus explodes into flames on an arterial road on the edge of Sydney's CBD causing "extreme" smoke and 2-metre-high flames.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, state-parliament, surry-hills-2010, sydney-2000
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An explosion on Sunday (November 26, 2017) morning in a factory in China's eastern Zhejiang province has caused casualties, but the numbers were not immediately known, state broadcaster CCTV reported.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, accidents---other, china
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Family traumatised after 3yo boy killed by tractor driven by father
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Tasmanian police confirm the driver of a tractor that hit and killed a three-year-old boy in a tragic accident was the child's father.
Topics: accidents---other, death, kettering-7155
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Parents sue after boy's skull fatally crushed in rotating restaurant
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The family of a five-year-old boy whose skull was crushed in the rotating wall of a hotel restaurant sues the Atlanta hotel, accusing it of negligence in his death.
Topics: accidents---other, law-crime-and-justice, tourism, united-states
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Topics: sport, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, accidents---other, community-and-society, volunteers, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, natimuk-3409
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Topics: sport, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, accidents---other, community-and-society, volunteers, natimuk-3409
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Topics: sport, community-and-society, volunteers, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, accidents---other, natimuk-3409
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Rock climbers say rescue methods fail to get a grip on reality
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Experienced rock climbers at Mount Arapiles in western Victoria say bureaucratic rescue protocols will put stranded climbers in more danger.
Topics: community-and-society, education, sport, volunteers, accidents, accidents---other, natimuk-3409
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Man killed after falling into woodchipper at Gympie
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A 54-year-old man has died in "absolutely shocking" circumstances after falling into a woodchipper on a rural property at Gympie, north of Brisbane, police say.
Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, gympie-4570, qld, australia, brisbane-4000
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Tributes flow for teen who died jumping from cliffs into Swan River
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Family and friends mourn the death of Perth teenager Luseni Traore who died jumping off Blackwall Reach on Friday afternoon, describing him as "the person who glued everybody together".
Topics: death, accidents---other, bicton-6157, perth-6000, wa
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Boy, 10, and woman hurt by falling tree branch at Victorian school
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A 10-year-old boy and his carer are injured when a large tree branch falls onto a basketball court at the Kalianna Primary School at Bendigo North in central Victoria.
Topics: accidents---other, police, north-bendigo-3550, vic
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Safety experts examine helicopter wreckage after fatal Hobart crash (photos)
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A 33-year-old pilot remains in a serious but stable condition in hospital as aviation authorities continue to investigate a helicopter crash at Hobart Airport that killed flight instructor Roger Corbin.
Topics: accidents---other, hobart-7000
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Staff, small number of grieving students return to school after classroom crash
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Just 88 students out of Banksia Road Primary's School community of 570 returned to the school today, a day after a car ploughed into a classroom, killing two of their classmates.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, death, primary-schools, greenacre-2190
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1 million bees killed after truck crash
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Around 1 million bees, valued at more than $1 million, are killed after a truck carrying their hives crashes in Northern California.
Topics: accidents---other, environmental-impact, united-states
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Women 'lost at sea' never activated emergency beacon, Coast Guard says
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Experts cast doubt on the survival story of two US women who said they spent five months adrift at sea before being rescued, after the Coast Guard reveals the pair had an emergency beacon but never activated it.
Topics: accidents, accidents---other, navy, hawaii, united-states, pacific
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Topics: accidents---other, mining-industry, queenstown-7467
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Indonesia says welder's torch caused fireworks factory blaze
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Police say that an inferno at a firework factory near Indonesia's capital that killed 48 people was started by sparks from a welder's torch.
Topics: industrial-fires, accidents---other, indonesia
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The plane came down near the Pacific Highway, just south of Port Macquarie, about 4pm this afternoon.
Topics: air-transport, accidents---other, port-macquarie-2444
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Emergency services were at the scene of the plane crash near the Pacific Highway, south of Port Macquarie.
Topics: air-transport, accidents---other, port-macquarie-2444
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Two dead in light plane crash near Port Macquarie
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A witness describes the "catastrophic" and "frightening" moment a light plane crashes on the New South Wales mid-north coast, killing a man and a woman.
Topics: accidents---other, air-transport, port-macquarie-2444, nsw, australia
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