Sentence examples for working collapsed from inspiring English sources

In 1991, when he was 29, a scaffold on which he was working collapsed, sending him crashing 20 feet to a concrete floor.

At least 37 gold miners died and many others were injured in the Central African Republic when a pit in which they were working collapsed after heavy rains, the president's office said Monday.

A year ago today, over 1,100 Bangladeshi garment workers lost their lives when, despite prior warnings, the building in which they were working collapsed.

However much of it was summoned out of the ether by computer wizardry, all the hardware looks thoroughly corporeal and persuasive: the torpedoes running in shallow water, the ships' upper works collapsing, the occasional unlucky zero being brought down by small-arms fire.

The Adventures of Electra Elf, a satirical public-access superhero show that was probably his most popular work, collapsed.

More than 60 miners were killed this week in the Darfur region when the gold mine they were working in collapsed, a police spokesman said Thursday.

Chinese officials have identified a worker who died at a construction site in Elmhurst, Queens, on June 7, when a wall he was working on collapsed.

Ann Barnes, 59, a UN worker originally from Leigh-on-Sea Leigh-on-Seanot Leigh-on-Sea, Essexsince thasbuildinotshe was working in collapsed on Tuesday.

A building contractor was arrested yesterday and charged in the death of a worker who was killed in May when a concrete balcony he was working on collapsed.

Displayed together, Mr. Broodthaers's work collapses several mediums — painting, literature, film and sculptural display — and yet retains the salient features of each one.

They feel if the oil companies pack up and leave, which they could, then hundreds of thousands would be out of work, collapsing their entire economy.