electrocution
Apia, SAMOA — A baby girl died on New Year’s Day, electrocuted by a live wire in a tragic home incident at Samusu, Aleipata.
Samoa’s Deputy Police Commissioner Auapaau Logoitino Filipo confirmed the 8-month old baby girl was pronounced dead on arrival at Tupua Tamasese Meaole (TTM) National...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has closed its case against Manu’a’s Inc., dba Manu’a’s Discount Store, after the locally based company paid the penalty of over $35,000, according to spokesperson with the US Department of Labor (USDOL), whose...


![Flowers with photographs in place at the site where three Manu'a Store employees died during a work-related accident on January 14, 2017. One year later, Toese Ume, who was a member of the local US Army Reserve at the time; Iosefa Elia and Saito Paulo, were remembered. The tragic incident occurred next to Manu'a Store at the Tafuna Industrial Park. [photo: TG / SN file] Flowers with photographs in place at the site where three Manu'a Store employees died](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/electrocution_memorial_6089.jpg?itok=qwdDgLzR)