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3 students killed after structural collapse in South Africa's school
Three students lost their lives on January 31, 2019, after a walkway collapsed at Hoërskool Driehoek in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa. Emergency crews rushed at the high school that the incident occ...
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Pedestrian bridge collapse in Moscow: 13 people injured
A pedestrian bridge in Moscow collapsed on New Year's Eve injuring 13 people. The 350-meter wooden bridge, located in Moscow's Gorky Park above a skating ring, was crowded as people were about to w...
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Mario M. Cuomo bridge: Corruption investigation due to bolts failure
Steel bolts utilized in the new Mario M. Cuomo Bridge, New York City, failed during construction phase, according to reports. The 5-km twin span cable-stayed bridge links Rockland County with Westc...
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Opal Tower in Sydney evacuated: Fear of collapse
The 36-story Opal Tower, located in Sydney's Olympic Park, was evacuated on Christmas Eve after reports for severe cracking. More than 3,000 people living in or near the facility had to abandon the...
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Apartment building collapse in Russia: 39 people dead
An apartment building in the city of Magnitogorsk, located 1400 km southeast of Moscow, partially collapsed causing 39 fatalities. The failure of the 10-story building occurred on New Year's E...
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Internal collapse of 5-story building in Manhattan
An uninhabited 5-story building internally collapsed on December 21, 2018. The building is located in Lower Manhattan, New York. The roof of the structure fell apart causing the floors beneath to c...
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Bridge collapse near Hurley: OSHA investigation
On November 21, 2018, a bridge collapse near Hurley, Wisconsin, resulted in injuring 3 workers. The cause of the collapse was a support bar failure at the time that the workers were pouring co...
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Design faults that caused bridge collapse in Miami
A pedestrian section of the 53-meter FIU Sweetwater University City bridge collapsed in Miami killing six and injuring 9 people on March 15, 2018. According to Federal investigators report, the str...
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Partial collapse of road bridge in Kavala city, Greece
A road bridge located in the city of Kavala, north Greece, partially collapsed on November 9, 2018. A 15m. length section of the bridge, that was part of a main road network in Kavala, suddenly cru...
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Two buildings collapse in France: Fear for 8 people dead
- Nov, 16, 2018
- News On Natural Disasters / Failures
- Rue d'aubagne, Marseille, France
- Authored by: thestructuralengineer.info
Two buildings collapsed in the city of Marseille in France on Monday November 5, 2018. The constructions gave away at about 9 a.m. on Rue (street) d'Aubagne. According to a report from the Interior...
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