Spreading Cracks On FIU Bridge Failed to Alarm Project Team

Scott Judy

Richard Korman

May 16, 2019

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At a meeting held the morning of the collapse to discuss cracking, the engineer of record assured the project team the bridge was safe.

Construction Safety

Construction Workplace Deaths, Fatality Rate Down

Tom Ichniowski

December 18, 2018

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Fatalities decline 2% in 2017, fatality rate dips to 9.5/100,000 workers, from 10.1.

Safety and Health

OSHA Launches Program to Combat Trenching Accidents

Tom Ichniowski

October 4, 2018

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Agency sees "alarming" increase in fatal cave-ins, steps up outreach, plans enforcement.

Safety and Health

Construction Jobsite Deaths Climb, Fatality Rate Holds Steady

Tom Ichniowski

December 19, 2017

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Fatalities in private-sector construction were up 5%, to 991, last year, highest level since at least 2008.

Accidents

Worker Killed on Library Foundation Job in Woburn, Mass.

Johanna Knapschaefer

July 18, 2017

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The Medical Examiner now will determine how union laborer Mark Camire, 32, died.

ENR

Sept 23, 2019

A contractor in Liverpool is set to tear down the Churchill Way viaduct by the end of the year, one of the most dramatic consequences of a new U.K. inspection regime of post-tensioned concrete bridges that emerged from the rubble of collapses nearly 30 years ago.

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