2015-01-20 11:15
Tokyo — A worker at Japan's wrecked nuclear power plant died
after falling into a water storage tank, the latest in a growing number
of accidents at the site still struggling to clean up the mess from the
2011 Fukushima disaster.
The operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi
plant said the worker, 55, died of multiple injuries early Tuesday after
falling through an opening atop a 10-meter (33-foot) high tank. He was
one of three men inspecting the tank. Tokyo Electric Power Co., which
operates the plant, says the cause of the accident is under
investigation.
Currently,
the plant's decades-long decommissioning involves nearly 7,000 workers.
The number of injuries in the April to November period totaled 40 last
year, compared to 12 a year earlier, underscoring growing concern about
sloppy safety measures.
AP
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