The fatal fall of a scaffolder last week has seen the provisional total of construction deaths rise to 50 in 2007/08.
The unnamed man was working on the Ferrara Quay housing development in Swansea when the accident happened last Tuesday. He was taken to hospital but later died.
Nick Blundell, UCATT Regional Secretary for the Wales and South West, commented that this latest death underlines the dangerous nature of construction. "While it is alomost impossible to make the industry entirely safe, construction employers in general could be doing far more to make sites safer," he said.
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