OSHA Report on Florida Bridge Failure Available

Interesting. Even a layman should realize that cracks are bad and growing cracks are worse!

The fact that they didn't stop traffic while working on the bridge is really unforgivable, and should be held up as an example in future....In my opinion there were several failures in judgement made, most telling a failure to establish a clear chain of command from a competent on-site leader...

Nov 15th 2018, NBC News

"The lead engineer of FIGG Bridge Engineers, the company that led the design of the walkway, left a voicemail with the Florida Department of Transportation about the cracks two days before the collapse.

But the message, left on a landline, was not heard until a day after the collapse because the employee it was intended for was out of the office on assignment, the department said in March. The voicemail said, in part, that "from a safety perspective, we don't see that there’s any issue there so we're not concerned about it from that perspective" but that it would have to be repaired, according to a transcript.

The Florida Department of Transportation in October acknowledged that the department employee returned from the assignment on the day of the collapse, before the bridge fell, but did not listen to the message until the day after, NBC Miami reported. "

At least the message didn't go to a dead email account...

"from a safety perspective, we don't see that there’s any issue there so we're not concerned about it from that perspective"

...the department employee returned from the assignment on the day of the collapse, before the bridge fell, but did not listen to the message until the day after...

Maybe I'm missing something, but what significance was the message? It wasn't like the lead engineer told the FDOT to close the road and they didn't. FDOT was told there was no safety issue. What was this employee expected to do? It makes it sound like the message was received too late when there wasn't any request for action.

This may become THE textbook example of multiple-person, serial negligence, in Construction Project Management...

Yeah, but we've had the Boeing thing since
Del

The ''Boeing'' thing was a failure of software programming and electronic system design, but not of Construction Project Management...

True but I believe Del's point is that poor engineering practices can, will and has killed innocent people. Take your work seriously!

Not just software...
Critical system relying on a single sensor... spec' changes without proper authorisation...no clear chain of command/responsibility... no independent testing... etc.
Starting to sound familiar?
Del

I should have underlined Construction, not just italicized it...

Modern aircraft are ''assembled'', not just ''constructed''...

It is true that Wilbur and Orville Wright personally constructed much of their prototype ''flyer'' that flew on December 17, 1903. near Kittyhawk, North Carolina.

It is also true that the two Boeing 737's that crashed were not prototypes, but were the end-product of the sequence of the construction of each of the smallest components then becomming part of larger assemblages, which in turn, became even larger assembalages, until each fully assembled aircraft rolled off their assembly line, at their particular production facility.

None of the finished aircraft rolled off a formallally titled construction line...

(Also, the wright brothers had their employee, Charles Taylor, develop the 36 Hp gasoline engine specifically for their final product, so maybe it too could be viewed as an assemblage of two constructed components...)

Now that this report is out, I wonder if criminal charges will follow. To me, it looks like this report presents sufficient culpable negligence that somebody should go to jail and some corporations might be dissolved.