Another foul-up by a large construction company? News today.

[cliveshep]

My wife listens to and reads news that not being a Thai speaker or reader I don't get to see. Apparently today on Ramkhamhaeng in Bkk another large lump of concrete fell off the overhead railway. No one was hurt and no vehicle damaged which was a mercy.

 

Seems like hardly a week goes by without something heavy coming adrift from one of those railways in the sky, be it bridge beams, kilometers of rail, train wheels, falling cranes - the list over the years seems endless.

 

When are the relevant authorities going to wake up and 'smell the coffee' and get to grips with construction's appalling safety record. indeed with construction safety generally because quite often it is members of the public who get killed and injured as well as workers? The Expressway Authority of Thailand (Exat) has reported over 2,500 construction-related incidents on Rama II Road since 2019. I do not think worker injuries are counted, these figures seem to refer to more major things than slips, trips or falls to workers but to incidents involving heavy plant and heavy objects, like liquid concrete falling onto a passing car and injuring a child or beams falling etc.

[Liverpool Lou]

14 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

be it bridge beams, kilometers of rail, train wheels, falling cranes - the list over the years seems endless

"Kms of rails" have never fallen, there was one wheel that detached due to a faulty bearing from the manufacturer, nothing to do with any construction company.  The list is not endless, you've exhausted it already.