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A worker caught under a collapsed concrete slab at the old Galveston Flagship Hotel died of his injuries yesterday, say reports. The worker, Tauelangi Angilau, 65, of Salt Lake City, Utah, died Tuesday after a half-ton piece of concrete fell on him as he worked to demolish the historic Galveston hotel at 2501 Seawall Blvd.. Angilau, who was trapped for about 20 minutes before the slab was lifted off him and he was transported to University of Texas Medical Branch,…

  The UN is currently dealing with a string of sexual harassment complaints within its own ranks, reports say. Several women who complained of harassment say their employment contracts weren’t renewed, and the men they accused retired or resigned, putting them out of reach of the U.N. justice system, reports say.   But a planned overhaul of the United Nation’s internal justice system took effect mid-summer and the goal has been to create a more independent and professional system for…

Richard Steinecke II, 21, of New Caney, who was injured last Friday morning by steel beams which had collapsed in a high school auditorium under construction has died, reports say. The worker was evidently killed as a result of both the fall from about 50 feet and from being crushed by the steel beams that fell on him.   Emergency crews had been called to the scene of the high school where new construction had begun on an auditorium. Steinecke…

A high school auditorium that was under construction collapsed last week, injuring three workers in the south-Texas city of Santa Fe.   Emergency crews were called to the Santa Fe High School in the 16000 block of state Highway 6 Friday morning when it was reported that the structure had collapsed. The exact cause of the accident is unknown. But a crane at the construction site was needed to lift a 12-foot-long steel column off the workers to free them….

A North Carolina machinist was killed earlier this month as a metal rod departed the high-speed lathe on which he worked, striking and killing him. The accident, which occurred at the Statesville machine shop facility of R.P Machine, happened as the victim, 62-year-old Leonard Key, of Mooresville, had been working on a lathe on the Cochran Street shop. A metal rod he was machining was ejected by the lathe at a high rate of speed and hit Key directly in…