Blame for bridge collapse caught on camera levelled at contractor. A Pennsylvania contractor has been cited for “serious” violations that federal investigators say led to the partial collapse of a north central Pennsylvania bridge in June last year, injuring at least two workers. Records released to Pennlive by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)…Read moreRead more
Accident
Contractor cited over bridge collapse…
Contractor arrested over almost fatal chimney blast…
Demolition man wasn’t licensed to carry out work that almost killed him. Police have arrested and subsequently charged a demolition man who was almost killed when a chimney fell onto his excavator in the aftermath of a botched implosion. At the time of the demolition, which we reported here, the contractor hired to remove the…Read moreRead more
Stuck for the world to see…
Demolition truck gets jammed under bridge. You know how it is. You get yourself a nice shiny new Scania truck and you’re justifiably proud. So you get it decked out in company colours, you have your company name brandished across the front, maybe even a spot of personalisation to ensure that the driver takes extra…Read moreRead more
DSR fires back…
Rotherham contractor responds to criticism over “unauthorised” bonfire. Newspaper reports alleging that a bonfire on a demolition site in Hemel Hempstead caused panic and anger among locals have been refuted by the company involved. DSR Demolition was roundly criticised by the Hemel Hempstead Gazette which suggested that the fire had been unauthorised and that fumes…Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Adamo president killed in accident…
Accident claims life of one of US demolition’s biggest names. John T. Adamo Jr., the president of Adamo Group, has been killed in a demolition accident, a family attorney confirmed today. Adamo’s company has been a leading demolition contractor in Detroit for more than a generation and has participated most recently in the city’s extensive…Read moreRead more
DSR fined over scaffold fall…
Rotherham fined over accident that left worker with two fractured arms. A demolition company has been sentenced after pleading guilty to health and safety failings following a worker’s fall from height. The incident happened at the Hillington Industrial Estate in Glasgow on the 30 December 2011, when the 50-year-old worker was carrying out work from…Read moreRead more
Video – Lucky to be alive
Australian tourist hit by flying debris. An Australian woman was injured after being hit by falling debris on the site of what used to be the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City in the Philippines yesterday afternoon. The Makati Public Safety Department told INQUIRER.net over the phone that the foreigner was conscious and rushed to…Read moreRead more
Comment – A Demolition Disgrace
DemolitionNews reports on how a US demolition contractor sent an employee on a suicide mission.
Video – Stupidity personified…
Operator lucky to be alive following flouting of safety regs and disregard of good sense. What you are about to watch simply beggars belief. A US demolition contractor whose face was already liberally smothered with egg having failed to implode an unstable chimney countenanced a demolition method that placed an operator at serious risk of…Read moreRead more
Video – Horrific Chinese accident…
Collapsing building falls onto excavator. DemolitionNews reports.
