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2 killed in construction accident in Shandong

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-16 09:38

JINAN - Two workers were killed and two were injured Monday when steel beams fell as they were being lifted at a construction site in east China's Shandong province, according to the local work safety bureau.

The accident happened at around 2:30 pm when the reinforcing beams dropped at the site of a supermarket being built in central Jinan, capital of Shandong.

Two workers at the ground were buried in debris. Two others were injured.

Officials with the Work Safety Supervision Administration of Jinan and the city's Public Security Bureau are investigating the accident.

The accident occurred just five days after another work safety accident in Shandong left six people dead and three injured.

An underground construction site collapsed in Tai'an city on March 10 and six workers fell from the 15-meter-high platform. Three people who were injured are still in hospital.