Boom, then Blowdown for Wind Energy's Sinovel

A looming turbine tower half as high as Beijing's tallest skyscraper cast a long shadow over the Sinovel Wind manufacturing plant and a group of local government leaders recently before something went terribly wrong.

Some say the October 10 accident at the Gansu Province plant that killed five people – including three local government officials and two Sinovel workers – was inevitable for a company that's been growing too fast for its own good.