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September 26 - Disaster On the Job Around the World
On this day in Labor History the year was 2007.
It was that morning that a bridge under construction in Vietnam collapsed.
The disaster happened in Can Tho, about 100 miles south of Ho Chi Minh City.
It was a suspension bridge project to cross the Hau River.
The project was run by Japanese firms working with the Vietnamese government.
250 workers were on site at the project when the disaster happened.
55 people were killed and another one hundred were injured due to the collapse.
One reason cited for the collapse was that torrential downpours had caused the support structure for the bridge to…
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