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Video: 30ft Mobile scaffolding tower crashes down onto busy street
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Video captures the scene as a 30ft mobile scaffolding tower came crashing down in a high street, narrowly missing cars. Last Sunday shop owners and traders in a Winchester High Street dashed to move their cars from the path of a collapsing aluminium mobile tower scaffold. Three dosey contractors who had been clearing out gutters on a shop reportedly proceeded to...
Video: High rise scaffolding falls as typhoon rips through Hong Kong
Credit: @HighlandPaddyHK Shocking video filmed in Hong Kong during typhoon Mangkhut shows the moment scaffolding collapsed on a highrise housing development project. The deadly typhoon Mangkhut hit Hong Kong over the weekend it is said to be one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in decades. The storm has wrecked buildings and shut down the city.
U.S. Scaffold collapse caught on video
Workers had to run for their lives as strong winds cause a scaffold collapse in Rockford, Illinois USA. The terrifying video below caught by onlooker Nicholas Layng shows the tremendous force of mother nature. Workers from the construction site have said four people were on the scaffolding when they noticed it began to detach from the side of the building. All four were able...
Video: Severe Gibraltar storm wrecks huge scaffolding in seconds
Gale force winds have battered Gibraltar yesterday causing damage across the British Overseas Territory. Wind gusts reached 107 kilometers an hour according to reports, blowing roofs off buildings, uprooting trees and diverting flights. The winds have also caused a major scaffold collapse on a residential development in the Bayside area of Gibraltar. At around 02:30 scaffolding surrounding The Ocean Spa Plaza development...
Scaffolding on West Ham Power Station Demolition 1984
https://youtu.be/VS-rkdlJAxI Old video footage from Thames News shows a huge scaffold erected by Westminster Scaffolding in 1984 during the demolition project of West Ham Powerstation which was closed on the 31 October 1983. The site of the power station is now occupied by the Electra Business Park. Over the course of 12 weeks, Scaffolders erected over 47 miles of scaffold tube...
Fast-flowing River Demolishes Scaffolding
Scaffolding erected on a bridge for maintenance in Wales has been ruined after the high levels of water ripped the structure from the bridge on Saturday. The scaffold had been placed on a bridge over the Rhondda River in Pontypridd. The structure had been in place while the bridge was under construction according to Wales Online. Dramatic CCTV footage from a...
Scaffolding collapse leaves worker hanging off building and pedestrian critically injured
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Three people have been injured, one critically after a scaffolding and construction elevator collapse in downtown Fort Worth, Texas USA. According to local media scaffolding and a construction hoist outside a building undergoing renovations partially collapsed around midday on Wednesday (6 Feb). A worker pulled himself onto the roof after dangling by his harness six stories above the ground below. Eyewitnesses describe seeing scaffolding debris strike...
VIDEO: Shocking CCTV footage of a falling scaffold tube seriously injuring two female pedestrians
A man has been in police custody after a falling scaffold tube seriously injures two women on a busy London city street. On Tuesday 20th January 2015 a scaffolding contractor was in the process of dismantling a large scaffold in the heart of london’s financial district, when a scaffold tube became dislodged it plummeted towards the city street below striking...
Video: Scaffolding Training in 1969
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A video has emerged showing how scaffolders were being trained in 1969. British pathe has published a very interesting snapshot video of scaffolders being trained at the old CITB scaffold training center in Mitchem, London. Well before harnesses and the conception of SG4 & TG20, the video profoundly highlights how far our great industry has progressed to become a world...
Video: Scaffolders life in the 1950s and 1960s
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Well before the Health and Safety at Work Act this excellent historical video depicts the life of London construction in the early 1960's. Interestingly the two minute clip gives us a great insight into the life of the scaffolder back in the day. When Band and Plate was king with heavy gauge 3" tubes and 1/2" spanners was the norm,...
