Worker dies, 3 hurt as poorly-made scaffold collapses
A teenage construction worker died and his three fellow workers sustained injury after falling down from the seventh floor of an under construction building in the city's Banani on Friday afternoon.
Injured workers -- Rashedul Islam, 16, his brother Mofizul Islam and Md Zakaria and Kamal, 16, -- were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared Rashedul dead.
Witnesses said the four workers fell down around 5:30pm while working at a bamboo made platform at the seventh floor outside the eight-storey building of the construction firm Urban Topaz on road-23, block-B.
Police said no case was recorded in this connection till 3:30pm yesterday (Saturday).
On a spot visit, this reporter found that safety measures were poorly maintained. Very thin bamboo sticks were being used for making platform at which several workers stay with construction materials for their work.
Even bamboo supports behind the platforms were not properly tied with long bars at the height. Project engineer Mohammad Arif, however, made no comment regarding the accident.
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