webfact Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Scaffolding collapse injures seven migrant workersBANGKOK: -- Seven people, mostly migrant workers, were injured, three seriously, when a five-metre high scaffolding at a construction site for a Red Line's train route in Lak Si district collapsed on Tuesday.The incident happened at the construction site of the Red Line train project in front of the IT Square shopping centre.A State Railway of Thailand engineer in charge of construction and special projects said the collapse occurred when iron girders supporting construction beams buckled.Seven workers were injured, three of them seriously.They were working for Italian-Thai Development Plc on the route running from Bang Sue to Rangsit in Pathum Thani.The SRT was investigating whether the collapse was caused by carelessness by the contractor or an accident.Lak Si police said they have interrogated an engineer, supervisors and workers bur have yet to await result from railway officials on the cause.Construction at the site was ordered halted until the investigation concludes, police said.They added most injured are migrant workers. Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/scaffolding-collapse-injures-seven-migrant-workers -- Thai PBS 2015-01-21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony5 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Glad to read that under General Happiness corruption has been weeded out completely, and no sub standards in government construction projects will be used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berybert Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 (edited) Was it carelessness or an accident. If it wasn't for carelessness there wouldn't have been an accident. But it was migrant workers and Italian-Thai development Plc. So it will be dodgy Cambodians working on faulty Italian construction. No Thai was harmed in the making of this project. Move along please. Edited January 21, 2015 by berybert 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JeremyBowskill Posted January 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 21, 2015 Farang scaffolding is clearly to blame, would never have happened if traditional bamboo was used! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loles Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Of course. The slaver's life is cheap at all. DISGUSTING. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sviss Geez Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Glad to read that under General Happiness corruption has been weeded out completely, and no sub standards in government construction projects will be used. So you're privy to information about the reason for the collapse that no-one else is? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starky Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 So now workers comp will kick in of course due to the employers duty of care for their employees and all medical bills and full wages will be paid by the employer until the workers have made a full recovery and are ready to return to work.....Right? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CajunCruiser Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Farang scaffolding is clearly to blame, would never have happened if traditional bamboo was used! I watched the Landmark Hotel go up using bamboo scaffolding, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onionluke Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 its hard to make out on my phone but it looks like the task was rebar fixing maybe for a column , possibly topping up from a horizontal position layed along the scaffold., those cheap A frame scaffolds are always collapsing. i hope the men recover ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AleG Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Was it carelessness or an accident. If it wasn't for carelessness there wouldn't have been an accident. But it was migrant workers and Italian-Thai development Plc. So it will be dodgy Cambodians working on faulty Italian construction. No Thai was harmed in the making of this project. Move along please. "No Thai was harmed" From the article: "Seven people, mostly migrant workers" Mostly, meaning not all were migrant workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onionluke Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 could have been the rebar cage wasnt secured and took the scaffold down with it as it toppled over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham8888 Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Glad to read that under General Happiness corruption has been weeded out completely, and no sub standards in government construction projects will be used. So you're privy to information about the reason for the collapse that no-one else is? You can see looking at the type of scaffold used in the picture for a 5 metre height - this is inadequate and careless ( yes I do run a scaffold company ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thongkorn Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 the scaffolders where wearing steel toe cap sandals at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onionluke Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 could have been the rebar cage wasnt secured and took the scaffold down with it as it toppled over It does look like they were fixing rebar for a column and the rebar has toppled taking the scaffold with it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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