The Huai Khwang district office has ordered the construction of a housing project in the Rama 9 area to be suspended for 30 days and has prevented all unauthorised access to a building which collapsed yesterday afternoon (Sunday), injuring five workers.

 

Paitoon Ngammuk, director of Huai Khwang district office, said that they will take legal action against the project engineer for alleged negligence, after it was discovered that he was not at the construction site at the time of the accident.

 

He said that only some foremen were there, to supervise workers doing the construction.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/rama-9-housing-project-engineer-faces-legal-action-over-collapse/

 

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2023-02-14

 

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3 hours ago, webfact said:

Paitoon Ngammuk, director of Huai Khwang district office, said that they will take legal action against the project engineer for alleged negligence, after it was discovered that he was not at the construction site at the time of the accident.

Wow is this a first, Thailand starting to take safety and accidents seriously?

The bamboo broke and things fell down all normal just Cambodians that got injured they must be to blame legal action over envelopes exchanged next ????

The company director or CEO is the first person that should be interviewed....then the designer...then the on site supervisor, the engineer.

But really, a comprehensive site investigation must be conducted to determine the cause of the collapse.

Just announcing that legal action against the engineer for negligence will be taken, shows the level of incompetence that prevails here.

Edited February 14, 20233 yr by ChrisY1

Thailand - hub of buildings that fall down before they've even finished building them.

1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

The company director or CEO is the first person that should be interviewed....then the designer...then the on site supervisor, the engineer.

But really, a comprehensive site investigation must be conducted to determine the cause of the collapse.

Just announcing that legal action against the engineer for negligence will be taken, shows the level of incompetence that prevails here.

You obviously didn't read the whole article everything is being checked.  Engineer was probably supposed to be there and wasn't.

 

Will be interesting to read what they find

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

You obviously didn't read the whole article everything is being checked.  Engineer was probably supposed to be there and wasn't.

 

Will be interesting to read what they find

They mentioned that "scaffolding" on the first floor....seems a concrete pour was happening...so the formwork set up would have been there for a couple of days......

1 hour ago, ChrisY1 said:

They mentioned that "scaffolding" on the first floor....seems a concrete pour was happening...so the formwork set up would have been there for a couple of days......

Yeah I guess the engineer is responsible for ensuring people do their job right 

11 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Wow is this a first, Thailand starting to take safety and accidents seriously?

Nah ,just  didn't do the Donation.