Posted on 11/24/2016 8:08:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
Scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China collapsed into a deadly heap on Thursday, sending iron pipes, steel bars and wooden planks tumbling down on about 70 workers in the country's worst work-safety accident in over two years.
At least 67 people were killed by the collapse of the work platform at a power plant cooling tower that was under construction, state media reported. Two others were injured and one worker was missing.
The cooling tower was being built in the city of Fengcheng in Jiangxi province when the scaffolding tumbled down at about 7:30 a.m., an official with the local Work Safety Administration who would only give his surname, Yuan, said by telephone.
The reported death toll suggested that nearly all the construction workers at the cooling tower perished. Close to 70 people were working at the site when the scaffolding gave out, according to local media reports.
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Chinese scaffolding isn’t anything like what we use in the U.S. It’s normally made of bamboo poles, tied together.
Dangerous stuff.
I have a friend living in Shenzhen who admonishes but he absolutely refuses to ever buy real property because it’s never maintained and the construction techniques are extremely Shoddy.
He says at first it looks great and then in 5 or 10 years everything falls apart.
If the workers cannot look after their own safety construction I said of wonder about the construction quality of the underlying reactor.
my Shenzhen friend also says that Chinese law forbids you to own a piece of real property for over seventy years.
I remember about thirty nine years ago a scaffold in a cooling tower in West Virginia collapsed killing a large number of workers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Island_disaster
Scaffold disasters give me the chills as usually a large number of people are killed. When I worked in power plants years ago, I developed a habit of glancing at each connection and joint looking for loose bolts as I climbed upon them.
Yeah, I saw that when I was there. Those who work on them are reckless as well.
Thank you for the link. I didn’t know that happened. Almost 7 years before I was born, but I do that kind of work and that sort of thing actually does cross my mind
Kind of like Mexico—or at least the Tijuana area. Of course there, there are lots of buildings that have been half finished for decades. And I imagine Mexican Health and Safety rules are similar to China’s.
Yikes. Condolences to family and friends of the dead laborers.
Every click through to the NY Daily News generates revenue for these America hating leftists. Thanks, but I’ll pass. Plenty of other sources for this story.
The excerpt is all anyone needs to read to get the story.
Heck, one or two people here only read the headline. 8-)
True. I wish though, when possible, everyone would link to a more responsible source, if only for those readers that DO click through. Don’t ask me for a recommendation on a “responsible source” though.....there’s precious few of them nowadays.
prayers for injured and loved ones of all those killed. God be with them.
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