Collapsing Buildings and Roadways
Building Collapse in Manchester, UK
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The emergency response headquarters confirmed that the west wall and some playgrounds of the campus of the school collapsed, and the corners of the west side of the Boxue Building (teaching building) were damaged.
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on October 19, 2011 at 5:38pm
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Workers hurt as factory collapses
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Emergency workers attend to one of 14 construction workers injured at a building site in Viking Way, Germiston. Photo: Chris Collingridge
A construction team narrowly escaped death when a column supporting the roof of a Germiston factory collapsed, injuring 14 people.
On Tuesday morning, the sound of screeching metal and the crash of tons of bricks brought nearby business owners and workers running to a factory under construction opposite Rand Airport.
Fourteen construction workers were hurt, four of them critically, when the mid-section of the factory they were building caved in.
The accident caused tons of steel and bricks to fall, burying some of the construction team under the debris.
It appears that a column holding up the mid-section of the building collapsed just as 12 of the workers were pouring concrete on the roof of the section, which was not secure.
Donovan Strecker, who works at a nearby hangar, was one of the first on the scene as he happened to be driving by at the time of the collapse.
Strecker had first noticed a medic, who apparently worked near the accident scene, running blindly into the road towards the building. The man had been in a panic and had been trying to alert the authorities about the accident. “He was on his phone and (also) trying to remove some of the rubble,” Strecker said.
Soon afterwards, rescue workers from Netcare and Emergency Management Services arrived on the scene, where they began to dig out the trapped workers.
It took almost an hour to stabilise all 14 workers, who were then taken to hospital.
According to Netcare 911 spokesman Jeff Wicks, the four critically injured men had fractures and other serious injuries caused by the falling objects.
Two of the four were taken to the nearby Union Hospital and the other two were went to Milpark Hospital.
Later Wicks reported that the four men were in a stable condition and had no life-threatening injuries.
The less seriously injured men were taken to Union Hospital for treatment. Many of them were released shortly after being examined.
Elize Viljoen, who works at a nearby hangar, said construction had started two or three months ago.
Signs for the construction team’s structural engineers, All A Steel, were plastered on the fence in front of the site.
Nearby business owners said All A Steel had worked on several buildings in the area, but no such accident had occurred before. The company was unavailable for comment
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/workers-hurt-as-fact...
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‘Miraculous’ escape for Mucklagh priest
Mucklagh Priest has narrow escape after a tree fell on the Toyota Prius he was traveling in at Mucklagh, Tullamore, Co. Offaly yesterday. Picture: Ger Rogers/HR Photo.
AN Offaly priest had a ‘miraculous’ escape when a tree collapsed and destroyed his car as he drove through his parish on Monday afternoon.
Still shaken from the experience, Mucklagh Curate Fr John McEvoy said, “I must be the luckiest man in Ireland. I shouldn’t be here.”
Fr McEvoy’s Toyota Prius was written off when a large tree branch struck his car as he drove through Mucklagh at about 2pm. “The impact pushed the car out into the middle of the road,” Fr McEvoy explained.
He wasn’t aware of the tree falling until it hit. The collapse caused considerable damage to the car and deposited a large chunk of wood on the passenger seat. “It’s unbelievable, that’s all I can say,” Fr McEvoy remarked.
Luckily there was no other traffic on the road at the time, “if there was anybody behind they would have gotten it worse than me,” he explained.
“It could have been a different story and maybe it should have been a different story, but whatever intervention is up there I’m still here,” he said, adding, “it’s miraculous.”
Describing the event as incredible, Fr McEvoy said he escaped from the car with just a scratch on the back of his hand.
“It is unbelievable, the two ambulance personnel are still shaking their heads. They came out more or less expecting to have to cut me out of the car,” he said.
Fr McEvoy was able to get himself out of the car without assistance. He was checked over by the ambulance men before returning home to say a few prayers and he quickly returned to his parish duties.
The car was removed from the scene which was cleared after about an hour. Fr McEvoy said the “car is no more” but “I don’t care
http://www.offalyexpress.ie/news/local/miraculous_escape_for_muckla...
Trees falling out of the blue now.
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Humane Society president dies in Ramapo shed collapse
RAMAPO — Raymond Mundy, the longtime president of the Hudson Valley Humane Society, was killed Tuesday when the roof of a shed he was renovating collapsed on top of him.
Mundy, 68, had been seen by neighbors working on the building, which sat adjacent to his large, white home on Route 306 in the unincorporated section of Ramapo. The road was closed for several hours for an investigation.
Ann Marie Gaudio, executive vice president of the Hudson Valley Humane Society, knew Mundy for more than a dozen years.
"Everyone who knew Ray is devastated," Gaudio said. "We lost a superior human being. We lost someone who really believed in empathy — empathy for animals, empathy for people. The man had a heart of gold."
Mundy had called his wife, Judy, on Tuesday afternoon to tell her he was going out to work on the shed. She found Mundy pinned under the collapsed building when she returned from work later in the day.
Several neighbors expressed sadness about Mundy's death, with one recalling how Mundy had helped turn on electricity for him after the Jewish Sabbath began. Another neighbor, Zishe Miller, said Mundy had happily let others place lights along a path that passed through his property and served as a shortcut connecting neighborhoods.
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Partial building collapse in Palestine
Posted: Oct 18, 2011 1:26 PM
PALESTINE, TX (KLTV)- Road closures are in effect after part of a building suddenly collapsed Tuesday in Palestine.
It happened around 11 a.m. downtown--near the intersection of Houston and E. Oak Street.
People who live and work nearby said they could feel the ground shaking for blocks.PHOTO GALLERY
Click here for a before and after slideshow!"It was this real deep rumble. The building shook, the lights flickered.. It was scary," said Chris Gouras.
Gouras lives right next door to the Ivanhoe number 15.. The building that's roof collapsed.
He says the rubble coming down made so much noise he had no idea what he was hearing..
"I ran out and opened the door and all I saw was rubble and the dust from it blowing away," he said.
Some said they thought a train de-railed. Others said they wondered if it was an earthquake.
"It was like 20 transformers blowing all at once," Gouras said.
"The building official was actually driving by when it collapsed and was just less than a block away. He saw a big cloud of smoke and turned around to come back and look at it," said Fire Marshal Alan Wilcher.
Officials said they aren't sure what caused the collapse right now. They're waiting for the wind to die down so they can send a ladder truck up to investigate."It looks like it's weather related. It looks like maybe the torrential rains we had here the last couple of days played a part in it, but we don't know for a fact until we can get up there and look at it," Wilcher said.
They said some water is leaking from the building but they don't know yet if that contributed to the collapse or is a result of it.
Whatever the reason behind the collapse, Gouras said he is glad everyone is o.k.
"Very grateful. The only thing that happened was one of the pieces of stone up top went through the window," he said.
And as scary as it was, Gouras said he knows things could have been a lot worse.http://www.ktre.com/story/15722141/partial-building-collapse-in-pal...
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14 hurt in airport building collapse
The sound of screeching metal, screaming workers and the thud of tons of bricks hitting the ground was what sent nearby business owners and workers throughout Rand Airport Park running to the road where an entire construction team was almost killed.
Fourteen construction workers were injured, four of whom critically, after the mid-section of the factory they were building caved in, sending tonnes of steel and bricks flying, almost burying some of the team on Tuesday.
A column holding up the mid-section of the building collapsed as 12 of the workers were pouring concrete on the seemingly insecure roof.
Donovan Strecker, who works at a nearby hangar was one of the first on the scene after he happened to be driving by just after the collapse. Strecker had first noticed a medic who allegedly worked on the premises running blindly across the road towards the accident scene. “He was on his phone and trying to remove some of the rubble,” said Strecker.
Shortly after, the bevy of Netcare and Emergency Services arrived on the scene, where they began to unearth some of the trapped and injured workers. It took almost an hour for the stabilisation of all 14 workers.
According to Netcare 911 spokesman, Jeff Wicks, all four critically injured men had numerous fractures and other injuries after being hit with large amounts of debris. Two of the men were taken to the nearby Union Hospital, with the other two taken to Milpark Hospital. The other 12 were also taken to Union Hospital for treatment.
Elize Viljoen, who also works in the area, said the construction had started just two or three months ago. Signs for the construction team’s structural engineers, All A Steel, were plastered on the fence in front of the site, and according to nearby business owners they had worked on numerous buildings in the area. - The Star
http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/gauteng/14-hurt-in-airport-b...
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Five die in Malaspils building collapse...
MALASPILS -- Five people have been killed and seven people injured when a building collapsed in the central Latvian town of Malaspils. President Andris Berzins said the collapse was "one of the most tragic accidents in Latvian history." The three-storey residential building collapsed on Sunday for reason still unknown. The Fire and Rescue Service has said a gas leak and subseq... Full story...
The building collapse took place in the central Latvian town of Malaspils....
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CRASH: The damaged building on Voortrekker Road and Prince George Avenue in Brakpan. Picture: Velempini Ndlovu
A law firm in Brakpan, Ekurhuleni, is assessing the damage after part of its office building collapsed.
The damage to the building caused a dentist and a well known financial institution to close down, as they were also affected.
The residents and witnesses said they were shocked by a loud bang around midday on Saturday when a part of the building on Prince George Avenue and Voortrekker Road fell down. The building was being renovated to create space for shops on the ground floor.
A representative of Tollip, Cowling and Janeke Attorneys said: “At the moment we cannot do anything. We have no phone lines and no internet.”
The representative said they were assessing the damage caused by the collapse of the floor.
Gustav Fourie of the construction company that was working on the building said the first floor collapsed while they were renovating.
“Luckily no one was injured,” he said. “We are busy clearing the rubble away and then it will be determined what caused the collapse.”
Fourie said that when they were done with their work they would make the building, which was built in 1905, “more beautiful than it ever was”.
http://www.thenewage.co.za/31953-1008-53-Building_collapses_in_Brakpan
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http://www.buxtonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local/car_crushed_as_wall_co...
Car crushed as wall collapses onto road
Flood Damage: Windsor Road in Fairfield remains closed after the collapse of a front garden wall and damage to a parked car following overnight rain.
TONNES of masonry and earth crashed on to a busy pedestrian route in Buxton this week, crushing one car and damaging another.
Heavy rain caused a landslide which led to a retaining wall at a property on Windsor Road to collapse onto a Vauxhall Astra and a Ford Fiesta at just after 10pm on Tuesday night. And parts of the wall, which was around eight foot tall, had also fallen into the road, which remained closed as the Buxton Advertiser went to press.
The Vauxhall Astra was written off by the impact. However, no one was injured. The wall was the border of the garden at the property.
Despite a bright start to October, when the weather was unseasonably warm, the High Peak has suffered torrential rain for several days. And the Buxton Weather website shows that 92mm of rain has already fallen in the first two weeks of the month compared to 110mm for the whole of the month of October last year. The Met Office are predicting drier spells in the next few days.
The heavy rain has also seen levels of the River Wye in the Pavilion Gardens rise significantly.
And with the weather set to get more unsettled as winter approaches, insurance price comparison site Confused.com last week revealed that storm-related home insurance claims have risen by 68 per cent overall in the last year.
Research by the company showed that storms, lightning strikes and falling trees are among the issues claimed for over the last 12 months and the company are reminding people to check their home insurance policies to make sure they are covered for adverse weather.
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http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/wall_c...
Wall collapse causes traffic chaos
Drivers in Sheffield ran into traffic chaos yesterday afternoon after a high stone wall on one of the city’s major roads collapsed.
The 6ft wall, which runs alongside King Edward VII School and Language College in Broomhill, fell down at about 1.45pm.
Rubble was left strewn across much of Glossop Road and covering sections of pavement next to a bus stop.
No one was injured in the incident.
Vinci Construction is currently carrying out major works at the secondary school under Sheffield’s Building Schools for the Future scheme. The works, being carried out in three phases, include refurbishment of its grade II-listed building, and new buildings including a sports hall and science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) centre.
The collapse exposed gas pipes in Glossop Road and led to the road being closed to traffic heading towards the city centre.
Drivers heading towards Sheffield were diverted via Whitham Road and Western Bank.
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Utah, Massive landslide closes road
http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20111011/NEWS01/111011001/Landsl...|topnews|text|Frontpage
CEDAR CITY — A massive weekend landslide closed a state highway east of Cedar City and is forcing Utah transportation officials to the sky to map the damage.
Utah Department of Transportation Officials say the slide happened over a section of state Route 14 about eight miles east of Cedar City. It is 1,700 feet in length and moved over 100 feet down slope, containing roughly 1.5 million cubic yards of dirt, rock, vegetation and debris. In one location, transportation officials report, the slide is 100 feet deep and it will likely take three to four months before the roadway reopens.
The landslide has the Cedar City/Brian Head Tourism Bureau suggesting alternate routes for travelers. Visitors and travelers wishing to see Cedar Breaks National Monument, state Route 143 via Parowan and Brian Head offers a direct route to several views before connecting to state Route 148. Although the visitor center and campground services are now closed at Cedar Breaks, the viewpoints will remain open until the road closes after snowfall prohibits traffic to the area.
From the north, another access point to Bryce Canyon from I-15 is state Route 20. That route connects to U.S. 89 and state Route 12 to Bryce Canyon.
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