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5 workers hurt in fire at Tanglin Mall

Published on Jan 09, 2013

By Jalelah Abu Baker & Walter Sim

AN ELECTRICIAN was in intensive care last night after a fire broke out at Tanglin Mall.

The victim, who is in his 40s, was one of five colleagues hurt following an electrical fault in the building's switchroom.

He suffered 18 per cent burns and remained unconscious last night at Singapore General Hospital.

Two other men - one in his 30s and the other in his 60s - received burns to the face, head and neck.
The fire, which broke out at about 9.40am yesterday, is believed to have started when an "electrical flashover" - or unintended discharge of current - happened during a routine check.

Another of the five, a man in his 40s who wanted to be known only as Mr Chong, told Shin Min Daily News that he was overseeing the work on the ground floor when he saw a blinding flash and heard a boom. He was treated for discomfort in his left ear, while the fifth man, who is in his 20s, sustained slight burns.

The fire was extinguished before the Singapore Civil Defence Force arrived on the scene with a fire engine and three ambulances.

Although the main entrance was closed and announcements were heard telling people to evacuate, shoppers continued to enter the mall through side doors. They then milled around, despite the lack of air-conditioning.

Shop tenants also waited hopefully for the lights to return. But they said they were not too surprised by the disruption, as there had been other electrical faults since November.

The last major one happened on Dec 7, and involved power being disrupted for eight hours.

Yesterday's problem affected about half of the mall's tenants. They said the management started contacting them at about 1.30pm to tell them that "everything is back to normal".

Ms Rita Mohd, 33, who works at a children's clothing store opposite the switchroom, said the electricians were probably carrying out a routine check, as she had seen them daily.

The Straits Times understands that some of the five victims were from engineering firm Quality Power Management and others were based in-house.

A spokesman for the contractor said it was the first time its workers had sustained such grave injuries while on the job. Tanglin Mall declined to comment.

One tenant, who asked not to be named, said: "I can only hope the mall will help us accordingly. The last time a major power cut happened, we were still charged rent."

Posted 9th January 2013 by Unknown

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We felt exploited by Singapore General Hospital (SGH) as we had put my father there in good faith but it turned out that the doctors were all junior residents who were incompetent and had used him as a guinea pig for their training/experiments while the senior doctor (Director) had turned a blind eye and refused all contact with us despite numerous request. He simply left my father in the hands of the resident doctors (respiratory dept) and his team. My father was staying in the A1 single room with all expenses fully chargeable and paid by us. His stay was certainly not on charitable grounds.

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On 2nd Dec 2023, I was dumbfounded when I saw that my father’s right hand was all bruised and swollen. Upon checking with staff nurse, she said that it was the resident doctor who was responsible for the bruises. I then requested to see him immediately.The staff nurse spoke to him and said to wait as he would be available to meet soon after his rounds. 40 mins passed and when the doctor still hasn’t shown up,she ( staff nurse) called again to follow up. To my disbelief, she said that he had already left work as it was a Saturday. It is apparent that the resident doctor could not account for what he did and left the hospital when he knew I had expected an explanation.

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 Yamagami was described as a "totally normal" and seemingly "earnest" person by at least two people who had interacted with him, Kyodo News also reported.

He was hired through a dispatch agency in October 2020 to work at the freight department of a factory in Kyoto prefecture, the agency reported, citing an unnamed "former senior colleague".

The former colleague characterized Yamagami as someone who kept to himself.

"If it was work talk, he would respond, but he didn't go into his private life. He seemed mild-mannered," the former colleague said, according to Kyodo News. The former colleague added that Yamagami would "eat lunch alone in his car" and that "conversations with him never strayed beyond the topic at hand."

The former colleague said there had been no issues with Yamagami for the first six months of his employment, until he started to exhibit "gradual neglect" of work practices, according to Kyodo News Agency.

For the first six months, there were no issues with his attitude toward the job. However, cracks began to emerge, and his gradual neglect of work practices saw him increasingly being cautioned by coworkers. Earlier this year, a transportation firm urged him to observe their standard procedure of using cushioning material to protect the goods being carried, but Yamagami reportedly argued that his way of doing it was “also fine.” The company subsequently submitted a request for his removal from the role.

Long-time staff also criticized his methods, to which Yamagami would sometimes respond confrontationally.

In March, Yamagami started taking "unauthorized time off" and spoke of "heart issues" and other physical problems, despite having no previous issues with punctuality or attendance. His employment ended on May 15, the agency reported.

An unnamed employee at the dispatch agency who interviewed Yamagami for the job described him as "totally normal," but added that he "didn't say much" and "had a slightly gloomy sense to him," according to the Kyodo News Agency.

Less than two months later, Yamagami, who previously served for about three years in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, was arrested over the murder of Japan’s longest-serving prime minister.

Speaking to the media, his former colleague could barely conceal his shock and condemned his actions as being against freedom of expression. “There were problems at work over what he did, but never once did it turn into violence. He didn’t seem the type to do something huge like this,” he said.

The dispatch company employee who originally interviewed Yamagami later delivered the news that his job was terminated. The employee described the suspect as someone who “didn’t say much and had a slightly gloomy sense to him but was totally normal,” asking, “why would he do something like this?”