A mid-morning pedestrian bridge collapse Oct. 10 in upstate New York left one construction worker dead and nine injured, including a New York State Dept. of Transportation inspector. State and federal officials have closed the site and are investigating the accident.

The bridge collapsed in the town of Marcy, which is adjacent to Utica. Workers for Tioga Construction Co. Inc, Herkimer, were paving the 170-ft-long, 14-ft-wide structure when it fell. "We had formed the deck and were placing concrete at the time," says Charles Sirowatka, Tioga project engineer. "We got about halfway out when the bridge rolled to one side then bent in the middle."