Date:17/09/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/17/stories/2006091719550300.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Labourers hurt as scaffolding collapses

Staff Reporter

Around 50 people were at work when the incident occurred

DOWN WITH A THUD: The scaffolding that collapsed at a construction site in Bangalore on Saturday. — Photo: V. Sreenivasa Murthy

BANGALORE: About 30 labourers suffered minor injuries when a scaffolding collapsed at a multi-storeyed building under construction in Ulsoor police station limits in the early hours of Saturday.

The police said the incident occurred around 2.30 a.m. at the building that is coming up on the old Lido cinema premises. Around 50 labourers were at work on the fifth floor of the building when the centring sheets and supporting poles collapsed along with the newly laid concrete mould.

On hearing a creaking sound, the labourers started running for cover.

As the concrete blocks and steel rods fell on them, about 30 labourers suffered minor injuries. The injured were treated at Bowring Hospital as out-patients, the police said.

A labourer said that as they had suffered only minor injuries, they had returned to work.

As no one had lodged a complaint and also the because the injuries suffered by the labourers were minor, no case had been registered against any one, said Assistant Commissioner of Police, Ulsoor Subdivision, N. Nagaraja.