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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Watch an audio slideshow with historic photos
Video: The disaster still felt, 30 years later
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Read the first story in the seriesWatch an audio slideshow with historic photosVideo: The disaster still felt, 30 years laterClick here for more related multimedia
April 28, 2008
Two months after 51 construction workers plunged to their deaths at Willow Island, then-Assi ...
April 27, 2008
At about 10 a.m. on April 27, 1978, workers began raising the day's second bucket of concrete up ...
April 27, 2008
Disaster resonates to this day for family left behind
WILLOW ISLAND - Angie Steele was 10 years old when the worst construction disaster in U.S. history w ...
April 27, 2008
Thirty years later, I still get an eerie feeling when I drive by the gigantic towers where 51 worker ...
April 27, 2008
Audio slideshow with historic photos Video: The disaster's impact still felt, 30 years later PD ...
April 27, 2008
Reports of the investigations into the Willow Island Disaster ...
April 27, 2008
List of the fifty-one men killed in the 1978 scaffold collapse near Willow Island.
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