Platform, 3 workers fall off I-430 bridge

1 body pulled from river after plunge of water pipeline project's scaffolding

By Jacob Quinn Sanders

Photo by Staton Breidenthal

Searchers comb the Arkansas River under the Interstate 430 bridge for missing workers that fell into the river when the scaffold they were working on collapsed.

ADVERSTISMENT

Three workers installing part of a water pipeline plunged 50 feet into the fast and cold Arkansas River on Wednesday from a construction platform slung underneath the Interstate 430 bridge, authorities said.

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