Engineers should have closed a busy Florida street immediately when cracks deepened in a newly installed concrete bridge that ultimately collapsed, killing six people, federal workplace safety investigators said in a new report.
Design flaws caused the cracks to form in the 930-ton span at Florida International University in Miami, according to a report by Mohammad Ayub of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Office of Engineering Services.
“It cracked like hell,” construction crew supervisor Kevin Hanson said in a March 10, 2018, text message cited in the OSHA report.
Managers at Munilla Construction Management, the bridge contractor, and FIGG ...
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