Construction Site Safety - Collapsing Scaffolding injures six and kills one Mississippi worker.

Collapsing scaffolding at a Mississippi power plant injured six workers and killed another. The site of this accident is the Mississippi Power’s Plant Daniel in Jackson County.

"Inside a boiler house, it's a very tight, narrow space that they were working in," said Mississippi Power Spokeswoman Cindy Duvall. "It's pretty high up. About 226 feet high is how high a boiler house will go. At the time, they were at 170 feet."

It took hours to locate and rescue or remove the workers from under the collapsed debris.

The InjuryBoard has several posts about construction site scaffolding safety. I, at the Des Moines InjuryBoard have posted about OSHA Rules.

Construction Safety - Construction Accidents: Scaffolding Safety Requirements, July 7, 2008

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