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Colombia Launches Probe Into Deadly Bridge Collapse

January 24, 2018
Jim Parsons
KEYWORDS Bridge Construction / construction accidents / Risk Management
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The search for answers continues in the Jan. 15 collapse of a 1,500-ft-long cable-stayed bridge in a mountainous region of central Colombia, killing 10 construction workers and injuring several others.

According to reports, the Chirajara Viaduct, which spans a 900-ft-deep canyon on a highway route between Bogota and Villavicencio was approximately 260 ft from being joined at its midpoint when the incident occurred. Welders employed by subcontractors to Bogota-based infrastructure concessionaire Coviandes were performing drainage work around noon when the western side of the structure and its support pylon gave way. The fall into the canyon killed nine workers instantly; the tenth died at a nearby hospital.

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