Construction site mishap injures four
Four construction workers were injured, two seriously, when a wall dividing their building site from a school collapsed on them yesterday, police said, the latest in a string of mishaps in Cambodia’s burgeoning construction industry. The brick wall, between the site of an apartment complex being built by PDT Properties in the capital’s Chamkarmon district, and the neighbouring Home of English International School, fell on the four workers about 9am, police officer Yean Kimleang said. ... Mi Ni, a spokeswoman for PDT Properties, said the collapse was an “accident only” because heavy rainfall had softened soil beneath the wall. ... Van Thol, vice president of the Building and Wood Workers Trade Union Federation of Cambodia, said construction foreman and company owners often did not enforce safety standards, putting many workers at risk of serious injury or death. ...
