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Three persons lost their lives inside a boiler while attending maintenance. For entry into confined spaces (a space which is not a regular w...

As per reports, totally, nine persons died and another is injured in a work involving cleaning of sludge from an oil tank. Initially, four p...

While doing welding inside a pipeline below the ground level, with LPG gas cylinder outside at ground level, there was an explosion inside...

A fire erupted when persons were working in a hole (pit) on gas line. A person with minor burns on face and hands went to hospital. The flam...

SafetySmart Compliance » Blog Archive The James Beals Tragedy: The Price of Neglecting Confined Spaces Safety The above link is about conf...

Confined space jobs are very dangerous as one has to work in unknown atmospheres. Here is a link to BP Guidelines on confined space entry, f...

Deaths due to insufficient oxygen - a case of confined space death. Victims were inside the scrapped ship as per the report below. Four Dead...

I read an excellent article on wrong notions of safe oxygen level of 19.5%. One should find why oxygen levels are below 21% and only after ...

Many people consider that the oxygen levels at or above 19.5% are safe to work in a confined space. However, I read somewhere that before as...

Offlate, I started reading persons overcome by the atmosphere while working inside the septic tanks, underground water storage reservoirs / ...

Open borewells - fall of kids Deaths in confined space