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July 13, 2006
COLORADO GIRDER COLLAPSE TRAGEDY PROMPTS NTSB ACTION
The National Transportation Safety Board, in a series of letters to state highway departments and other agencies, has strongly recommended adoption of procedures and practices to address the inconsistency in regulatory requirements and guidance concerning falsework, bracing, and related temporary construction affecting highway construction contractors, and State oversight of highway contractors and subcontractors. The detailed recommendations grew out of a May 2004 collision on I-70 in Golden, Colorado, when a girder collapsed, shearing an SUV in two and killing all three occupants, including a two-year-old child. NTSB said the collapse was due to preventable deficiencies in the girder and its bracing.
Posted by MVHAP at July 13, 2006 02:49 PM