In this photo released by Xinhua, rescue workers look for survivors after a work platform collapsed at the Fengcheng power plant in eastern Jiangxi Province, yesterday (Thursday)
Scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China collapsed into a deadly heap today (Thursday), as iron pipes, steel bars and wooden planks tumbled down and crushed nearly all 70 workers in the country’s worst work-safety accident in over two years.
At least 67 people were killed by the collapse of a work platform at a power plant’s cooling tower that was under construction, state media reported. Two others were injured and one worker was missing.
The plant’s cooling tower was being built in the city of Fengcheng in Jiangxi province when the scaffolding tumbled down at about 7:30 a.m., an official with the local Work Safety Administration, who would only give his surname Yuan, said by telephone.
AP
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