Scaffold Collapse in Vietnam Kills 14

• Proeksa Meas
• 31 December 2015
• Construction Focus
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At least 14 construction workers were killed and 28 others injured when scaffolding collapsed at a construction site in central Vietnam on 25 March.

At least 40 workers were on the 20-meter high scaffold in Ha Tinh province when it suddenly disintegrated. All the victims were Vietnamese subcontractors hired to work on a seaport breakwater project.

The incident took place at the Son Duong seaport which is part of the Vung Ang economic zone where Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp. is building a multi-billion dollar steel complex.

One of the survivors told the AP that the workers were cleaning a frame for a giant concrete block for the breakwater when the scaffolding collapsed.