UPDATE
In citing their assessment of the Miami tower fatality that took three
lives last September, OSHA found that Tower King II, the contractor,
lacked “a qualified individual to conduct an analysis before performing
construction work.” Tower King II disagrees with that finding, according
to the Miami Herald.
“The Company consulted several
experts in the tower safety industry and asked them to perform a
thorough accident investigation,” Tod Morrow, attorney for Tower King
II, stated. “Both the Company and its experts have concluded that the
accident was caused by the failure of a third-party engineering firm to
properly calculate the stress factors on the rigging used to secure the
equipment to the TV tower. It is our belief
that a mistake in the engineering plan caused an overloading of the
rigging components, ultimately causing them to fail.” Continue Reading
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