Rescuers work at the accident site at the Fengcheng power plant in Yichun City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Nov. 24, 2016.
As of 10 p.m., 68 victims have been identified. Most of them were born after 1980, with the youngest being 23 years old, and the oldest 53.
These people were working at the site at 7 a.m. when the platform collapsed at the Fengcheng Power Plant in the city of Yichun.
Rescue work is underway.
The cause of the collapse is still under investigation. Because of lax safety standards, workplace accidents at Chinese facilities are not uncommon. The cooling tower was being built by Hebei Yineng Tower Engineering Co Ltd. Liao Huishou, an engineer in charge of the project, said that they had started building the tower in April and construction was planned to last 26 months.
He called it a "complicated project" because of the tower's double-curve design and the fact that the construction platform had to be adjusted based on the height of the tower.
“Time was very pressing and the construction was very difficult,” Liao said.