It's been 30 years since the worst construction accident in U.S. history claimed 51 lives in Pleasants County. Look back on the disaster, the investigation and the people left behind.
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Video: The disaster still felt, 30 years later
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April 27, 2008
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Reports of the investigations into the Willow Island Disaster ...
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List of the fifty-one men killed in the 1978 scaffold collapse near Willow Island.  
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