This memorial to the victims of of this area's...and the nation's...worst construction accident ever, was dedicated 10 years ago. And while there are still people here who can never forget, it stands as a permanent reminder of a day which began like any other, but very quickly became tragic.

It was shortly before 10 A.M. Construction workers for a New Jersey contractor were pouring concrete for the cooling tower for the Pleasants Power Station, using a scaffold on the partially-completed tower. Suddenly, the scaffold collapsed, sending 51 workers to their deaths.

Student Anthony Lauer, a relative of several of the victims, was behind the project to erect this memorial...one which is visited often.

"I hope they learn job safety isn't just something you look over," says Lauer, who was 10 years old when the disaster happened. "These are people's families, these are people's husbands, wives, kids out here on these jobs."

Connie Dzagiwa is now the communications director for West Virginia University at Parkersburg. 30 years ago, she was a reporter for the Parkersburg Sentinel. While she wasn't at the scene, she was assigned to an armory building that served as a morgue.

"I watched women who were my age learn that they were widows," Dzagiwa says. "And I watched families learn that they had lost their sons and their uncles and their brothers. And I remember at the time, the Sentinel photographer showed up, and I stopped him at the door, and I said, 'Don't come in here, leave them with their grief'."

Tom Neale then was W.T.A.P.'s news director and main anchor. Neale viewed the site the day after the disaster.

"You pass it on the highway and it looks big," Neale said in 2002. "But when you stand in the center of that and look up, that is amazing. And to think of what happened to those men working at the top, it's hard to forget."

Neale told us that, because of the emotional distress the families suffered from the disaster, he decided that W.T.A.P. would not cover the victims' funerals.

The plant itself, which opened a couple of years after the disaster, is thriving today. In fact, a major renovation project was just completed and dedicated. But because of what happened on April 27, 1978, this plant and the disaster may forever be linked.