Two Myanmar workers killed as ditch collapses

By The Nation

 

Two Myanmar workers were killed and three others were injured when a ditch they were working in collapsed on them in Satun's Muang district.

 

They were working on a 1.8-metre deep and 50-metre long ditch at a house under construction on Sathit Yuthitham Road.

 

Two of the workers were pronounced dead when they arrived at hospital, after the 1.30pm accident.

 

Muang Satun superintendant Pol Colonel Phumsit Nawang said police would investigate the cause of the collapse and would ask the construction company to pay compensations to the dead and wounded.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30319806

 

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Ditch walls always need to be shored up as you progress..simple plywood and 2x4s will do the trick. Very sad that foreman did not follow common safety protocol.

6 hours ago, tonray said:

Ditch walls always need to be shored up as you progress..simple plywood and 2x4s will do the trick. Very sad that foreman did not follow common safety protocol.

You have to remember Thailand is much different when it comes to anything to do with safety and foreign workers are a dime a dozen well they were before the forced mass migration back to their homeland

8 hours ago, tracker1 said:

You have to remember Thailand is much different when it comes to anything to do with safety and foreign workers are a dime a dozen well they were before the forced mass migration back to their homeland

I guess that in the same way that Thailand apparently does not need earth wires, "as it has a different kind of electricity" according to one electrician, Thai ditches do not need shoring up, as they are different.

On 7/3/2017 at 9:28 PM, tonray said:

Ditch walls always need to be shored up as you progress..simple plywood and 2x4s will do the trick. Very sad that foreman did not follow common safety protocol.

2x4's...? in thailand...? You can't be serious...? Never seen one.

Just now, fish monger said:

2x4's...? in thailand...? You can't be serious...? Never seen one.

Any solid piece of wood or metal will do friend. But of course you already know that.