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Long-term exposure to respirable coal and silica dust during underground tunnelling operations has gained increasing attention in recent years. The solution to effective mitigation of dust exposure depends not only on higher-order engineering controls, but also on administrative controls for frontline workers. However, there is a disconnect between knowledge gathered in the field of dust exposure monitoring and the frontline worker, resulting in important learnings being overlooked in underground tunnelling operations. To remedy this discrepancy, an immersive educational tool was developed to ...

"Extremist" Orthodox Hasidic students, who reportedly hired migrants to create a tunnel under a Brooklyn synagogue, believed they were following a religious calling

'I would put my hand in the ground and have a little listen to what the mountain was doing.' 'Actually, it was still collapsing.' 'And there was a very real possibility that at some stage, without warning, the collapse could continue -- and continue across us, the people who were doing the rescue and also across to the men on the other side, who were being rescued.'

Dozens of low-wage workers from India have been rescued from inside a collapsed tunnel in the Himalayas which caved in on the 12th of November. The families of the 41 men are celebrating, while authorities investigate the incident.