Air ambulance called following Aldwych collapse. Some 200 people, including workers and students at the London School of Economics (LSE) have been evacuated from the area around Aldwych after a building in Portugal Street collapsed. The building is also close to the Royal Courts of Justice and Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Witnesses reported a “large crash”…Read moreRead more
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Breaking News – LSE students evacuated as building collapses…
Did contractor follow plan in tragic contract…?
Mayor questions whether contractor followed its own demolition plan. Bonney Lake Mayor Neil Johnson said it appears to him that Highway 410 overpass contractors didn’t follow their own detailed demolition plan, when a long piece of concrete barrier fell and killed a young family in a pickup below. The accident, at 10:30 a.m. Monday, happened…Read moreRead more
Video – Another bridge tragedy unfolds…
Family of three killed as concrete barrier falls onto road below. A young Washington State family, including an infant boy, was killed in a nightmare stroke of bad luck when a concrete barrier fell from an overpass onto a moving pickup. Josh and Vanessa Ellis and their 8-month-old baby Hudson were identified as the unlucky…Read moreRead more
Worker killed in Black Sea hotel collapse…
Demolition industry adds yet another name to its tragic tally. A man has died when an old hotel building collapsed during demolition works at Saints Konstantin and Elena resort on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, Nova TV has reported. The deceased man was member of a team of workers hired to take down the disused Veronika…Read moreRead more
Video – Close call for surveyors…
Roof collapses while derelict building is being inspected. Officials are thanking their lucky stars this morning after a building they were inspecting in Waverly partially collapsed while they were on the roof. The derelict building had lain empty for two years and was being inspected prior to a planned demolition. Now, having been rendered unsafe…Read moreRead more
Four workers hurt in wall collapse…
Investigation underway after Manhattan incident. Four construction workers were seriously injured when a Madison Avenue building under renovation in midtown Manhattan partially collapsed Tuesday morning, New York City police said. The four men were in the process of demolishing a masonry wall inside 331 Madison Ave. near Grand Central Terminal when it collapsed on top…Read moreRead more
Wall falls onto Philly street…
Portion of wall crashed to the ground taking down a street light as contractor oversaw “controlled demolition”. The city’s Department of Licenses and Inspection confirmed Monday that the contractor was demolishing the front wall near the 1100 block of Market Street when the collapse occurred. The street light collapsed onto a barrier around Market Street,…Read moreRead more
Video – Latest inductee to 40-watt club
Another wholly avoidable demolition accident captured on camera. DemoltionNews reports.
Near-miss Down Under…
No-one hurt as scaffold falls onto road during morning rush hour. Four storeys of scaffolding collapsed during peak hour in Sydney’s south, but no one was hurt or trapped. Rescue crews have confirmed no one was under the Rockdale rubble after earlier fears a person was trapped when 25m of scaffolding crashed onto Frederick Street….Read moreRead more
Breaking News – Manhattan rocked by building collapse…
One person seriously injured as building collapses in NYC. A building under demolition partially collapsed yesterday on the West Side of Manhattan, injuring a construction worker. It happened at about 2:35 p.m. at a 4-story garage at 622 West 57th Street, between 11th and 12th Avenues. Fire department spokesman Brian Norton says the worker rode…Read moreRead more
