The USA’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has blamed two contractors after a worker died while a bridge was being demolished.
The USA’s National Transportation Safety Board has found that poor communication was to blame for an accident that caused more than US$1 million of damage to a railway swing bridge in Louisiana.
A worker has died after a portion of a bridge in Georgia, USA, collapsed while being dismantled.
The USA’s Occupational Safety & Health Administration (Osha) has found that safety failures led to the death of a welder at the Bonner Bridge demolition project.
When a major incident closed Auckland’s harbour crossing last autumn, the speed of the emergency structural repair implemented was much admired by bridge engineers around the world. Will Pank, Mike Beamish and Hannah Barker share the story
Florida Department of Transportation has announced that one lane in each direction will be open for the first 1.6km of the bridge from the week beginning 22 March.
Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has announced that extra workers have been brought in to enable repair of the Pensacola Bay Bridge by March 2021.
Repairs to the Pensacola Bay Bridge are expected to take six months to complete, Florida Department of Transportation has announced.
Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) in the USA has assembled a statewide team of experts to inspect, assess and repair the Pensacola Bay Bridge.
Work on temporary repair to Auckland Harbour Bridge is set to start tomorrow night after a strut was badly damaged last week.
Four girders have collapsed on a bridge being built across the Anjarakandy River in the Kannur District of Kerala State in south-west India.
There is still not enough being done in the Netherlands to prevent accidents when remote-controlled bridges are opened, according to a report into injuries suffered by an elderly couple.
A New Zealand company has been fined US$100,000 after a poorly designed scaffold structure collapsed while seven people were at work on a bridge maintenance project.
Heavy rainfall in the island led to Keritis Bridge's collapse, caught live by a local TV station
Fabrication is now complete of new diagonal bracing for the USA’s Sunshine Bridge, which was badly damaged when it was hit by a barge in October 2018.
The bridge’s concrete piers and steel structure had been repaired last year after an earlier collapse in 2016 due to flooding.
The incident on La Pala Bridge occurred less than 2km away from the site of the Chirajara Bridge collapse that killed nine workers in January this year.
Repairs are set to get under way shortly to replace a main load-carrying member that was damaged last month when a crane hit the Sunshine Bridge in the US state of Louisiana.
New Zealand’s workplace safety authority is enforcing measures to ensure that lessons learnt from an accident on a bridge site are shared widely by the company held responsible.
The protracted inquiry into the fatal collapse of the Grayston Drive bridge in Johannesburg is resuming.
