China Scene: West

Worker impaled on steel rods in construction fall

A worker was seriously injured when four steel reinforcement rods pierced his leg and abdomen in an accident at a construction site in Gejiu, Yunnan province.

Wu Jinding, a migrant worker from a village in Sichuan province, fell from the second floor of a building where was working on April 16 and was pierced by four reinforcement rods.