When Steve Wilson, general manager of transportation and logistics at contractor Allan Myers, saw recent data from one of his drivers come in, he knew something was wrong.
What began as a routine overnight construction closure of southbound I-59/20 in downtown Birmingham, Ala., turned into a weeklong outage when an incomplete steel girder system shifted atop its temporary support structures.
A third worker died while on the job at the sprawling, 21-mile-long I-4 Ultimate in Orlando. Michael Tolman, 56, an ironworker with Shelby Erectors, a project subcontractor, died March 8 after being struck.
Bowing to industry’s push, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now proposes changes in Obama-era federal rules for power plant coal-ash disposal enacted in 2015 after several major spills, aiming to let states provide local oversight and enforcement.
State and local officials said Friday that the cables supporting the deck of the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University near Miami were being tightened after a stress test when the bridge collapsed over traffic on March 15, killing at least six people.