Items Tagged with 'collapse'

Three workers were ID'ed by city-based Ironworkers union as members Stepan Shevchuk, the first to be found, and Matthew Kane and Mark Scott Jr., who were discovered early on April 13.

Investigators are probing the cause of deadly school building collapse that raises fresh questions about construction oversight and structural safety standards.  

Officials are working to understand how the structural steel practice facility collapsed overnight in Gulf Shores, Ala., part of the city's $137-million construction of a new high school.  

The steel frame of a manufacturing plant failed, injuring three workers. 

Structural engineer will probe the causes of the fatal collapse last April at 57 Ann Street in Lower Manhattan.

Torrential rain brought by Storm Daniel and poor maintenance of two aging, clay-core embankment dams near Derna, a coastal city, are key factors, experts say.

The building's owner pleaded guilty to an infraction of city code for failing to maintain the building.

Nation's first consensus standard on disproportionate collapse mitigation in buildings was a decade in the making.

US Occupational Safety and Health Administration continues to investigate building that partially collapsed on June 2 at construction site, injuring eight workers who fell two stories

Failure of the 52-ft-tall Radisson Blu hotel lobby tank released 26,000 gallons of seawater, which killed most of its 1,500 tropical fish, but with just minor injuries to two people.