Worker Killed Removing Fasteners From Bridge
Jason Sandefur
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT
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A 47-year-old construction worker was killed and another one seriously injured while removing fasteners from an unused bridge outside Smithville, TX.
The men were knocked out of the manlift when the beams fell and a mobile crane dismantling the bridge overturned, causing the worker who died to fall about 60 feet onto a stack of construction materials, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
“The mobile crane was gripping a steel girder that was about to be removed from the bridge,” writes Regina Dennis of the Statesman. “A second girder came loose, falling on the other girder and causing the crane to overturn.”
The crane operator swam to safety without sustaining any serious injuries. The other worker was airlifted to a nearby hospital.
Cleanup crews collected most of the oil, gas and hydraulic fluid that seeped into the river when the crane toppled over.
The U.S. Department of Labor launched an investigation that could take up to six months.
Crane collapses have killed more than a dozen workers nationally over the past five months. �2008 FastenerNews.com
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