Items Tagged with 'collapse'

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. 

The public has until May 16 to submit comments on the draft of the first U.S. consensus standard addressing disproportionate collapse of structures.

Construction on Fern Hollow Bridge, which collapsed on Jan. 28, could begin by late April.