Broken platform caused deaths

TUESDAY, MAY 08, 2012
Broken platform caused deaths

Police investigating an incident in which three workers fell to their deaths from Bangkok's Baiyoke Tower 2 on Monday have made an initial determination that the floor of the cradle in which they were suspended collapsed, and that the accident was not cau

 

Two other workers were injured in the incident.
 
Investigators were waiting for the result of a probe by the Scientific Crime Detection Division into whether the cradle had been previously broken, before determining if the incident was the result of recklessness, city police chief Pol Maj-General Anuchai Lekbumrung said yesterday. Police would interview the owner of Q Advertising, the victims’ employer, later yesterday, as well as the two injured workers, he added.