Up market housing estate sign crushes worker in Bangkok

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Up market housing estate sign crushes worker in Bangkok

 

Picture: Thairath

 

BANGKOK: -- A huge concrete sign at the entrance to the expensive Bangkok Boulevard housing estate on Ratchapreuk Road in Pak Kret came loose yesterday crushing an 18 year old worker to death.

 

Klong Khoi police and the Pak Kret district chief went to the scene and found Korat native Wathanyu Monthathong in a pool of blood under the rubble of the sign that proclaimed the name of the estate, reports Thairath.

 

Two other workers caught in the collapse survived and were sent to hospital.

 

A total of six people were working on the sign with a crane. Bangkok Boulevard had called in the Pro Construction Co Ltd to repair the sign after it started leaning.

 

It was 12 meters long, six meters high and 60 centimeters thick.

 

But as the company workers tried to straighten the sign up it came loose. Wathanyu was unable to get out of the way and was instantly crushed to death.

 

The other injured people were Sarawut Khoonkhunthot, 21, and Miss Yupha Sutkhiawsang, 28.

 

Source: Thairath

 

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[Thaiwrath]

Pay for the funeral, and nominal compensation to the family, then business as usual.

Negligence won't come into it.

[trogers]

Two pillars, but only one crane...

[dotpoom]

May you RIP young man....just went to work as normal....very sad for all concerned.

[djayz]

An 18 and a 21 year old with no or very little work experience working on a site probably with no supervision. 

RIP. 

[Srikcir]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Pro Construction Co Ltd

More like Probably

[worgeordie]

Trying to straighten the sign !, surly it should have been demolished,

and rebuilt, trying to save money,now one dead,and 2 injured,and

now they will have to build  a new one anyway, a waste of life, RIP.

regards worgordie 

[Crossy]

12 x 6 x .6m in concrete? If solid that would have weighed about 100 tons.

The crane and the poor lad would have had no chance.

 

EDIT Possibly a bit of journalistic license on the size of the sign.

 

 

[Gandtee]

A sign of the times. Ignorant workers and no supervision. RIP

[farcanell]

5 hours ago, Crossy said:

12 x 6 x .6m in concrete? If solid that would have weighed about 100 tons.

The crane and the poor lad would have had no chance.

 

EDIT Possibly a bit of journalistic license on the size of the sign.

 

 

 

12 foot by 6 foot? ...... closer to 7 or 8t..... ?

[farcanell]

6 hours ago, dotpoom said:

May you RIP young man....just went to work as normal....very sad for all concerned.

 

Undeniably sad, but the comment "just went to work as normal". Is worrying... because this does indeed appear to be "normal."

 

Last week it was a building collapse during demolition work, wasn't it?.

[trogers]

7 minutes ago, farcanell said:

 

12 foot by 6 foot? ...... closer to 7 or 8t..... ?

 

Metres...not feet...

[farcanell]

Just now, trogers said:

 

Metres...not feet...

 

Yer..... it doesn't look twenty feet high to me, nor forty feet long

 

12 feet yes... 6 feet high... yes.....

 

and at 100 t (2.5 t per square meter) ... well, I can't see that either, in a sign..

[PatOngo]

It was an entrance sign! It said Welcome to the Safety of Bangkok Boulevard.

[kannot]

only  have to  look at the electric  poles round here to see the "quality"  of  work..............I think every other one is cockeyed and some at

30 degrees +.............nothings  done.................until it  falls  over, they dont even concrete them in

[trogers]

6 hours ago, Crossy said:

12 x 6 x .6m in concrete? If solid that would have weighed about 100 tons.

The crane and the poor lad would have had no chance.

 

EDIT Possibly a bit of journalistic license on the size of the sign.

 

 

 

As seen from the debris...

 

Dimensions are probably 16x4 metres. Columns of 60x60 cm, beams unknown, with 4-inch precast panels for signage, and plastered hollow blocks for the interior face.

 

Height gauged from comparison to height of first floor of the house in the background.

[Pimay1]

The leaning sign speaks well of the construction of the houses in the estate. Not

[catinthehat]

Bangkok Boulevard had called in the Pro Construction Co Ltd to repair the sign after it started leaning.

 

And the first thing the company that  is so proud of its name did was to conduct a Job Hazard Analysis. with  strict instructions for all hands to stay out of the way of the leaning structure. Maybe the poor young lad arrived late to  work.

 

So damn senseless, needless and preventable. The same goes for the comment about the payoff, etc and back business as usual. Sickening. One reason as a seasoned construction project manager that I choose to work abroad and not here!!!

[ratcatcher]

post eradicated.

[Glock3am]

11 hours ago, Crossy said:

12 x 6 x .6m in concrete? If solid that would have weighed about 100 tons.

The crane and the poor lad would have had no chance.

 

EDIT Possibly a bit of journalistic license on the size of the sign.

 

 

 

There's another Bangkok Boulevard on Ratchapruk Road with a very tall sign as shown in the attached picture, perhaps it was that one?

[chickenslegs]

43 minutes ago, Glock3am said:

 

There's another Bangkok Boulevard on Ratchapruk Road with a very tall sign as shown in the attached picture, perhaps it was that one?

 

Well spotted. That looks more like the one described in the OP.

[gdgbb]

12 hours ago, Crossy said:

12 x 6 x .6m in concrete? If solid that would have weighed about 100 tons.

The crane and the poor lad would have had no chance.

 

EDIT Possibly a bit of journalistic license on the size of the sign.

 

 

It's obvious from the OP picture of the rubble that it was not the same sign.

[Crossy]

4 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Well spotted. That looks more like the one described in the OP.

 

It does indeed, no wonder the estate were worried when it started leaning.

 

I wonder what the crew were actually trying to do when it failed.

[kannot]

8 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

post eradicated.

ah  so thats  why it  fell  over

[ratcatcher]

7 hours ago, kannot said:

ah  so thats  why it  fell  over

[trogers]

8 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

It does indeed, no wonder the estate were worried when it started leaning.

 

I wonder what the crew were actually trying to do when it failed.

 

Human props? The crane held one column, while workers the other?

[kannot]

49 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

r u pleading guilty or was it the shovels fault...I mean you were only holding it eh?

[Gandtee]

I'm surprised by the amount of posts querying the weight of the structure that killed this poor bloke and injured others. The important thing is that it was heavy enough to do the damage. The victims were ignorant of how to do the task given, and left to their own devices. Such is the case in many tragedies.