Bridge building accident

Forms or shoring gave way during a pour, concrete and rebar trapped one guy for over a hour, and he isn't getting to go home. Stay safe guys. https://www.ky3.com/2022/10/26/1-worker-killed-others-injured-bridge-collapse-near-kearney/

RIP and condolences to those affected by this. I have been around a couple of blowouts, but nothing like a deck collapse.

Read that today on a trade website. Goes to show to never let your guard down. RIP

Reminds me of years ago I wheeled onto a site in a 30 ton crane to pour a retaining wall. I looked at the form work and asked the job boss if he thought there was enough braces on that form. He was confident all was good. Ok then. Started pouring with the bucket, other guy was using the dildo, after a short while I saw those guys bail, literally jump off of the form. I knew what was going on and just shut the crane down, leaned back and crossed my legs.

They lost a big piece of a post tension deck pour on that big building I worked on last year, but I was long gone. I just heard about it. When we were building the 520 floating bridge pontoons they had a big one. Those pours are 29 feet tall that is a lot of pressure on those pontoon pours. They were pouring into the evening and I was gone, when I came back there was a big slobber of concrete dumped out on the ground, 40 yards or so. They let it cure out :facepalm: Then the night shift guys tried to break it up with one of those 15K Extreme forklifts and the light material bucket. They got it hooked in really good, rolled back and made that light bucket into a really pretty symmetrical V-Plow!! I'm not kidding it was bent at least a foot in the middle. Then they rented a mini and hoe ram. Any old broke down backhoe could have dealt with it at the right time in the cure.

We lost 6 guys on a new mine construction project when the formwork for the roof of a tunnel let go. Unfortunately they were under it at the time. https://www.mining.com/six-people-killed-newmonts-operation-ghana/

51 workers were killed when this concrete cooling tower collapsed in April, of 1978. I can see the stacks at the plant from our house. https://www.nist.gov/el/failure-coo...aster was,51 construction workers were killed . I worked on a lot of large concrete stacks, silos, and cooling towers in my younger days. Being way up high on fresh concrete,whether slip formed, or held in place by forms, always made me nervous. A guy working on a tall smokestack once told me,"you can die as easy from a 20' fall, as from a 1000' fall. So, why worry about the height". Somehow, that did not make me feel any better. Jeff

mowingman said: A guy working on a tall smokestack once told me,"you can die as easy from a 20' fall, as from a 1000' fall. So, why worry about the height". Somehow, that did not make me feel any better. Jeff Click to expand... The problem I see is the time it takes to fall that 1,000 feet. 20 feet might not be long enough to think about much but 1,000 feet would be a long time to think!

It was once explained to me thusly - "It's not the height you fall from that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom."

Nige said: It was once explained to me thusly - "It's not the height you fall from that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom." Click to expand... Yep the last inch or so is not good!