List of the fifty-one men killed in the 1978 scaffold collapse near Willow Island.
Click on a link below. Audio slideshow with historic photos: Narrated by Gazette News Editor and Pleasants County native Vic Burkhammer, who recalls the people he knew and the place where the disaster occurred. Video: The disaster's impact still felt, 30 years later: Interviews with people w…
Click to download the PDF files. Investigation of Construction Failure of Reinforced Concrete Cooling Tower At Willow Island, West Virginia, by Center for Building Technology, National Engineering Laboratory, National Bureau of Standards.