Focus Taiwan
Date: 2016/12/22
By: Christie Chen, Tai Ya-chen and Chiu Chun-chin

Taipei, Dec. 22 (CNA) Premier Lin Chuan (林全) on Thursday instructed officials to reexamine safety at construction sites across Taiwan, after five workers died when scaffolding supporting them collapsed in Taoyuan City a day earlier.

At an Executive Yuan meeting on Thursday, the premier asked labor and public construction officials to review and improve construction site safety, saying that any illegal behavior should be investigated, Executive Yuan Spokesman Hsu Kuo-yung (徐國勇) quoted Lin as saying at a press conference after the meeting.

The workers, four male and one female, were carrying out grouting work on a construction site at Taoyuan Municipal Daxi Senior High School on Wednesday afternoon when the scaffolding collapsed. They fell to the ground from the fourth and fifth floor and were buried under scaffolding.   [FULL  STORY]