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March 25, 2015

It may take 6 months to figure out why N.C. scaffold fell, killing three workers

  • Associated Scaffolding was dismantling the mast climber scaffold when part of it snapped off and fell about 200 feet with the workers apparently attached.
    • By JONATHAN DREW and MICHAEL BIESECKER
    Associated Press

    RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's workplace safety agency said Tuesday that it may be months before it finishes an investigation into why a scaffold with several men on it broke free from the facade of a high-rise construction project and killed three workers.

    The state Department of Labor is receiving help from Raleigh's police and fire departments as it interviews dozens of workers at the Charter Square building under construction in downtown Raleigh. Agency spokesman Neal O'Briant said Tuesday that the investigation might take up to six months.


     
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