The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Road_Tower" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Senior Road Tower">Senior Road Tower</a> collapses in less than 17 seconds.  Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.<sup about="#mwt59" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"}}' id="cite_ref-9" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_7#cite_note-9" id="mw2Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 9;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw2g">[9]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt63" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-10"}}' id="cite_ref-10" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_7#cite_note-10" id="mw2w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 10;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw3A">[10]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-9"><cite about="#mwt56" class="citation news cs1" id="mwBrA"><a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/12/08/us/5-workers-hurled-to-deaths-as-a-texas-tower-collapses.html" id="mwBrE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"5 WORKERS HURLED TO DEATHS AS A TEXAS TOWER COLLAPSES"</a>. <i id="mwBrI"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwBrM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. 8 December 1982<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBrQ">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBrU">2 December</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt56" class="Z3988" id="mwBrY" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=5+WORKERS+HURLED+TO+DEATHS+AS+A+TEXAS+TOWER+COLLAPSES&amp;rft.date=1982-12-08&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1982%2F12%2F08%2Fus%2F5-workers-hurled-to-deaths-as-a-texas-tower-collapses.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+7"></span></span>