Investigators Search for Clues After Deadly Scaffolding Collapse
Investigators find faulty materials and flawed design at the site of a deadly scaffolding collapse.
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00:00It's been a dizzying 24 hours for the family of Ms. Ke, who died suddenly on Sunday.
00:06She was just arriving at work at Formosa Advanced Technologies in Yunlin County when scaffolding
00:11used for an on-site building project collapsed.
00:14She and one other person were killed, and three more people were injured.
00:17My wife and I walked to the parking lot, but she fell down before we got to the parking
00:24lot.
00:25When we got to the hospital, the hospital staff told us that my mom had lost her breath
00:32before she was taken to the hospital.
00:41With the shock of the collapse still fresh, investigators are trying to understand how
00:45it happened.
00:46Initially, some believed severe weather at the time might be involved, but already there
00:50are signs negligence might be to blame instead.
00:53Wall connectors taken from the rubble have turned out to be substandard, and the design
00:58of the scaffolding itself was flawed too.
01:20County prosecutors haven't yet determined negligence as the definite cause, but they
01:24say they won't stop digging into what went wrong and who might be responsible.
01:29John Su and John Van Triest for Taiwan Plus.