Investigations underway at site of steel plant collapse.
Federal, state and county officials are investigating after a building collapse at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in Baltimore County injured nine workers, four of them critically.
County police and fire departments responded to the former Bethlehem Steel Corp. plant in Dundalk around 10 a.m. Monday. Fire department spokesman Lt. Paul Massarelli says the collapse occurred when the roof of a building being demolished caved in.
It appears the victims were working on heavy machinery like cherry pickers and bulldozers at the time of the collapse, and that same equipment may have kept the weight of the roof from falling on top of them, but no one knows why the structure gave way.
“That will be up to the police department and OSHA and MOSHA (which) will do the investigations to find out why the building collapsed,” said Massarelli, “It looks like the roof collapsed. I don’t know what they were doing inside to the point to have that happen, but luckily there was enough equipment there and other substructures to keep the… it didn’t collapse all the way down and pin anybody.”
While four victims went to the Shock Trauma Center, it is believed that none of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries.
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