Scaffold collapse kills at least 14 at Taiwan’s Formosa steel complex in central Vietnam

Thanh Nien News
Date: March 26, 2015

A scaffolding collapse at Vung Ang Economic Zone in Ha Tinh Province late Tuesday has killed

The scene of the accident where the authorities are scrambling to rescue around 100 workers who are still trapped under the rubble. Photo: T.Minh

The scene of the accident where the authorities are scrambling to rescue around 100 workers who are still trapped under the rubble. Photo: T.Minh

at least 16 construction workers and injured 27, officials said.
Nguyen Huy Tang of the Ha Tinh border guard said the accident occurred at around 8 p.m. when the workers were building the scaffold, which stood between 30 meters to 40 meters high, in the Ha Tinh Steel Complex & Son Duong Port, invested by Formosa Plastics Group.

The collapsed scaffold was part of a project contracted by a labor supply company based in the central city of Da Nang and invested by Samsung C&T, a subsidiary of Samsung.
“A tunnel below the scaffold structure has hindered rescue work,” Tang said. “All available resources have been mobilized to rescue around other 100 workers trapped under the rubble.”    [FULL  STORY]