3 killed at Bangkok One site

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From Channel 3 news (Bangkok)

Google Translation:

On February 16, 65, a news report said that at around 2:00 p.m. yesterday (February 15, 65) a support structure for the concrete formwork collapsed while pouring concrete. Within the construction unit of One Bangkok Project, Rama 4 Road, Lumpini Subdistrict, Pathum Wan District, Bangkok, which is operated by Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited.

From the examination of the information, it was found that 3 people were killed and 4 were injured, all of whom were employees working under the support. All the injured have returned to their homes for treatment.

The Bangkok Labor Protection and Welfare Office Area 1 (SorPor.1) and the Safety Center at Work District 11 (Taling Chan) (SorPhor. 11) will inspect the incident tomorrow.

One Bangkok Project is a mixed-use commercial development project on an area of 104 rai on Rama IV Road and Wireless Road and is owned by the Crown Property Bureau. Managed by the company Kasem Sapwattana Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of TCC and Frasers Property Holdings (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (Frasers Property) invested 120,000 million baht

Started piling in June 2019. It is scheduled to open for the first phase within 2023 and scheduled to complete the whole project in 2027.

 

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From The Thaiger / Kapook

Over 100,000 square metres of the first floor had already been completed, and it is believed that the supporting structure underneath gave out when the mortar was poured, according to the superintendent of the Lumpini Police Station. An official report on the collapse will be released by the Council of Engineers Thailand after an assessment.

[vinapu]

looks serious , it could easily be  damaging more lives

[PeterRS]

It reminds me a little of a similar accident which happened in Manila way back in November 1981. Imelda Marcos, she of the 3,000 pairs of shoes, untold wealth and personal possessions, decided she wanted a Film Festival. She saw one of her roles, apart from massive theft from the Treasury, as brightening the lives of the Filipinos with glamour and beauty (believe it or not, that is what she claimed!)

So she had her minions set about building a Film Palace that would rival Cannes, Venice and Berlin. She owned a huge plot of land bordered on one side by the sea and on the other by Roxas Boulevard where she had earlier had built the Cultural Centre of the Philippines. Also on the site was the 5-star Philippine Plaza Hotel which for much the 1980s was effectively cruise central for visiting gay guys. The one problem was the timetable. The contractors had less than six months to complete the entire job. So it was round the clock working for roughly 8,000 labourers. One evening workers on the night shift heard a sound like thunder. The whole roof caved in. It was rumoured that 168 men were buried alive and another 41 injured. 

Immediately the government imposed a news blackout before eventually stating that just 3 men had died. With the deadline now even more tight, the contractors were ordered to continue with the construction without pulling out the dead bodies. Some who were alive but buried up to their waists in drying cement were never tended to and died where they landed. Only after the Marcos family was kicked out of the country did film of the true grisly event surface.

When the Festival went ahead, most of the invitees had declined to accept. About the only 'stars' to attend were Peter Ustinov, Priscilla Presley, Brooke Shields and Imelda's favourite actor, the perennially sun-tanned George Hamilton. After much remodelling the building is currently used as a theatre.