A 56-year-old male worker died after falling through the roof of the station building onto the concourse seven meters below at Nakayama Station on the JR Yokohama Line in Yokohama on Saturday.
According to police, the man was doing waterproofing repair work on the glass roof of the building when the glass broke and he fell through it at around 11 a.m., Kyodo News reported.
The man suffered multiple injuries all over his body and was taken to hospital but died at around 7:30 a.m. Sunday.
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Wesley
Rest In Peace, sir.
wallace
Another industrial accident that could have been avoided.
WA4TKG
I can’t believe he wasn’t required to wear some sort of arresting gear, a rope tied off somewhere with a “D” ring belt ? I guess the Japanese equivalent of “OSHA” regulations means as much here.
genshijin
Thought Japan was better than that .... UK construction health and safety; Work on or near fragile roof surfaces requires a combination of stagings, guard rails, fall restraint, fall arrest and safety nets slung beneath and close to the roof. Fragile roofs: all roofs should be treated as fragile until a competent person has confirmed they are not.
albaleo
And yet there were 45 construction related deaths in the UK in 2022/23.
https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm
SwissToni
Albaleo, unfortunately construction workers in the UK also break the rules.
Elvis is here
Reminds me of the window cleaner incident back in Dec.
https://japantoday.com/category/national/window-washer-falls-to-his-death-at-business-hotel-in-osaka-prefecture