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A BABY elephant has been rescued after it ended up wedged in a street manhole when it fell into a drainage ditch in eastern Thailand.

The young elephant looked on pleadingly with its front legs positioned at the edge of the roughly metre-square hole while rescuers worked for three hours to free it.

Eventually a bulldozer was employed to widen the hole and allow the elephant to escape.

The young pachyderm emerged physically unharmed.

The elephant had fallen into the hole after its trainer had taken it out to work on the street in Rayong province.

Elephants are a common sight in many Thai towns and cities either performing heavy manual work or being used as a prop by beggars and buskers to solicit money from passers-by.

Baby elephants are especially favoured and usually perform a repertoire of tricks.

Concerns over cruelty have led to the banning of elephant displays in many areas of Thailand.

However this has done little to curb the practice with many elephant owners and trainers, known as mahouts, working their animals for long hours every day.

Source: News Limited

Equipment Watch: The Peno Guard's got fall protection covered

Construction Contractor Magazine has given the PenGuard a great review;

C&V Engineering's general manager, Mario Pizzolato, has designed and developed the Peno Guard - designed to prevent falls on building sites where penetrations and excavations are prevalent.

This easy-to-install safety feature is made of extremely strong wire mesh allowing workers to clearly see through the Peno Guard and visually confirm the danger beneath. Pizzolato believes that this is a safer method of preventing falls than the more commonly used technique, where workers simply place a piece of plywood over the hole, often not bothering to hammer down the corners.

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PenoGuard to feature on the ABC New Inventors!

Penoguard has been selected to appear on the ABC Television Program "The New Inventors", on July 15th 2009. This is a great recognition for Penoguard. Please watch the segment and don't forget to vote in the viewer choice awards!

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