Six months after Terex Peneir SK415 crane collapsed onto a Dallas apartment building, killing one, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined the crane’s owner, Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. citing serious violations.
Transit agency had two derailments and a track fire this summer; safety report cites 61 corrective actions, with multiple general managers since 2010 “incredibly disruptive."
On Dec. 14 at 2:27 p.m., the Arlington Fire Dept. responded to a two-alarm structure fire at Globe Life Field, a $1.1-billion project under construction in Arlington, Texas.
A fatality on a Massachusetts bridge project has a local labor union questioning whether two union construction workers were properly trained to run the aerial lift they were operating at the time.
Preston Todd Delph, 58, an employee of Gateway Concrete Forming in Miamisburg, Ohio, died after the seventh-floor of a mixed-use development on Fourth and Race streets in Cincinnati, collapsed on him November 25. OSHA and the City of Cincinnati are investigating the incident.
An overweight vehicle is thought to have caused the collapse early on Nov. 18 of a roughly 150-meter-long steelwork suspension bridge in Mirepoix-sur-Tarn, a French village 30 km northeast of Toulouse.
When the under-construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans partially collapsed on Oct. 12, the initial response was one of search and rescue, as well as a dramatic effort to secure the site that led to the controlled demolition of two tower cranes.