Owner estimates damages of $1 million. Officials say a fire at a Grand Rapids demolition and salvage business that sent a large plume of smoke wafting over parts of the city caused an estimated $1 million in damage. The fire was reported at Pitsch Companies. Witnesses reported explosions authorities say were from oxygen, propane and…Read moreRead more
Accident
Fire hits Grand Rapids demo firm…
Breaking News – Three injured in latest bridge collapse…
Bridge collapse caught on surveillance cameras. Three workers in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, have been hurt when the bridge they were working on collapsed. The dramatic collapse was caught on surveillance video.
Video – Finnish bridge collapse footage…
Footage emerges of the moment a Finnish overpass collapsed onto the road below. Yesterday we brought you the breaking news of a Finnish bridge that had collapsed during routine demolition works onto the road below, and we promised to bring you the footage of the collapse. Well, after much searching (and more than a little…Read moreRead more
Finnish bridge collapse…
Overpass collapses onto road that had remained open. It is just a few short hours since the European Demolition Association bandwagon rolled into Helsinki to deliver its message of best practice and cross-continent unity to the good folks of Finland. What better time for the great god of irony to conspire to drop a demolished…Read moreRead more
Washington worker killed
Investigations underway after man is crushed by steel beam. Washington state officials are investigating after a 52-year-old Whatcom County man working with a friend on a demolition job was fatally crushed beneath a steel beam. The Bellingham Herald reports (http://is.gd/7ERlFJ ) that James Loyd Bost was helping to scrap a cyclone air separator on Monday….Read moreRead more
Video – Why football has no place on site…
A sure-fire winner of freak accident of the week. I am sure that some demolition workers would have you believe that this video – quite possibly staged – captures the on site dichotomy of skilled worker and less skilled manager. However, the real message is far more simple: If you’re going to play football, do…Read moreRead more
Excavator falls onto train tracks…
Excavator falls through bridge onto Revere train tracks. DemolitionNews reports.
Supervisor found guilty over Keysham fatality…
Former EDS man awaits sentencing. Site supervisor Paul Priestley has been found guilty of a failure of care after a worker plunged to his death whilst gutting the former Cadbury’s Somerdale factory in Keynsham. Priestley, 54, of Halifax, denied failing to take reasonable care for the health and safety of others at work, contrary to…Read moreRead more
Keynsham fatality case comes to court…
Demolition site supervisor on trial after worker falls to his death gutting Keynsham factory A demolition man is on trial after a worker plunged to his death whilst gutting the former Cadbury’s Somerdale factory in Keynsham. James Stacey was using a mini-digger to push a large piece of fibreglass tank from the fourth floor of…Read moreRead more
Demolition man dies from injuries…
Industry chalks up another fatality. A demolition worker has died of injuries he suffered when he was crushed on a Yorkshire demolition site. Andy Hagan, 35, who is believed to have lived in Allerton, was reported to have been partially buried when a wall collapsed at the former Deighton Centre in Huddersfield. He died of…Read moreRead more
