Tragedy struck at a construction website in the Chatuchak district of Bangkok yesterday when a tower crane collapsed and killed a Cambodian employee. Thai information outlet Channel 7 reported that the crane’s sling was broken, causing the crane’s arm to crash down on the employee, 31 yr old Sophanna.
Two other Cambodian staff have been injured in the incident. One of the injured workers was dropped at Paolo Hospital with minor injuries, while the opposite worker didn’t want to go to the hospital.
Bangkok’s Deputy Permanent Secretary Dr. Wantanee Wattana, together with the director of Chatuchak district, Pornlert Penpass, went to inspect the positioning.
The constructing consists of a 29-storey office, a 3-storey auditorium, and a 7-storey car park. It was contracted on November 23, 2020, and the development period began on January 15, 2021. The challenge is about to finish on December 31, 2023, and the development cost is 2.1 billion baht.
Steps isn’t the primary time such an accident has occurred in Thailand’s building industry, which struggles with its safety measures. Building work and development work are among Thailand’s most dangerous professions.
Earlier this month, over a hundred Burmese workers fled to security as a four-storey constructing beneath building in Bangkok collapsed. The third and fourth flooring of the four-storey building collapsed onto the second floor.
Rescue employees searched by way of the rubble to find three trapped Burmese employees, one male and two feminine, who sustained fractures to the head and bodily wounds. Two extra Burmese girls fainted in the course of the incident. All 5 had been taken to Petcharavaj Hospital in Bangkok for remedy.
In November last yr, a builder died from blood loss after pulling a grinding wheel out of his chest in Chon Buri. He tried to use the device to chop steel when it’s designed to chop stone, inflicting the wheel to snap and fly straight into his chest..