JINAN, April 3 -- Five workers died after they fell from an elevator at a construction site in Laiwu City of east China's Shandong Province, a company spokesman said on Friday. Three workers died at the site of the accident, which occurred at about 4 p.m. Thursday. Two others were badly injured and died later in hospital, said the spokesman of the Laiwu Steel Group, Ltd. The five worked for Shandong Xiantong Installation Company, a contracting firm of Shandong Laiwu Iron and Steel Group Corporation. Industrial safety officials with Laiwu city government are investigating the cause of the accident, an official said. |