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Fengcheng power station scaffold collapse
Construction accident in China From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Fengcheng power station collapse occurred on 24 November 2016.[1][2] At least 74 people died[3] and at least two others were injured and trapped after a construction platform at a power plant in the Chinese city of Fengcheng in Jiangxi province collapsed.[4][5] During the time, more than 60 people were working on the platform and another dozen were on the ground waiting to begin their shift at 7a.m. when the platform of a power plant’s cooling tower under construction collapsed.[6]
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See also
- Willow Island disaster – a similar accident which killed 51 people in 1978 in West Virginia, US
- List of structural failures and collapses
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