Health and environment officials have collected water samples from the Mekong River at Khut Khu rapids in Chiang Kan district of Loei province for testing, after sulfuric acid leaked into the river from a truck which overturned in Luang Prabang yesterday. Laotian officials had issued an announcement...
age 25 of Huntington Park, slipped and fell while boarding an outboard boat yesterday in Marine Stadium. She suffered “severe cuts of the left leg and hip” and was taken to Community Hospital. Her “wounds inflicted by the propeller blades” took 50 stitches to close. ...
age 76, was on his airboat, Miss Mildred, which he built yesterday 4 July at Sabine Lake. About noon, a bolt loosened, he tried to repair the problem without shutting down the propeller, his right arm was caught in the propeller and severed at the wrist. Another man...
Yesterday, an employee at a chocolate processing plantdied after falling into a vat of chocolateat a New Jersey-based plant. The 29 year-old man, Vincent Smith II, was dumping raw chocolate into the vat when he fell and suffered a blow to the head by the metal paddle used for stirring...