Another worker working at a Hanoi skyscraper construction site died Monday, becoming the fifth fatality in the last few months. In the latest accident at the US$1 billion Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower, a 36-year-old man was smashed by a steel pipe when he was operating a concrete pump on the building’s first floor.

He passed out and died on the way to hospital.

It is the fourth accident in the last seven months.

In July last year four workers were killed in two separate scaffold collapses while three others were injured in another accident when a wooden platform fell from the 14th floor.

South Korea’s Keangnam Group began work in 2007 on the Hanoi Landmark Tower, the biggest project in the capital at the time.

It features two 48-story towers with 918 apartments and another 70-story building.

At 345 meters, the building will be the tallest in Vietnam and 17th tallest in the world, according to Keangnam.

Vietnam has a checkered industrial safety record. Figures from the Labor Safety Department show there are 5,000 industrial accidents a year on average, including 500 deaths.

Compiled by Thuy Hang