3 Injured when Huge Scaffolding Collapses in China

[kellyhound]

Footage has emerged of a dramatic Chinese construction site disaster, which saw scaffolding give way and collapse onto a crowded shopping street, injuring 3 people.

The incident happened just after midday last Wednesday in the southwestern Sichuan Province city of Mianyang, as passersby went about their daily business.

Surveillance footage shows steel scaffolding beginning to peel away from a building, much to the horror of two workers standing on the structure and people walking on the street below.

As the platform falls towards the ground, two men working on the construction site desperately try to hang on while people passing by run for cover.

The scaffolding then smashes into a lamppost before a large crowd starts rummaging through the wreckage for survivors.

Three people were injured in the collapse, including two construction workers.

An investigation into the accident is now being carried out by the city’s Urban Management Law Enforcement Bureua.

[FunkPumpkin]

Hats off to those who ran to try and help.

[durt]

I'm sure they have an excellent Health and Safety team investigating!

[theydontlikeitupem]

Riders on the storrrrm see them try to get off but end up having to ride it out hope they're ok

[soyadude]

Dont look like steel scaffolding to me. Looks more like bamboo.

[recife1000]

them chinese are fucking useless

[Dennislp3]

Originally Posted by soyadude

Dont look like steel scaffolding to me. Looks more like bamboo.

They outlawed bamboo scaffolding for this very reason. If anything the news article states it is steel to save some officials ass or something probably

[The Krokodil]

Shitty Job settings up the scaffold