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Cantilever bridge parapet falsework failure
A reporter has experienced the failure of cantilever parapet falsework twice, for different reasons, using two different products during bridge construction.
20 February 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1159
Region: CROSS-UK
Steelwork connection design
A reporter was asked to design connections for a multi-storey building for which the frame had been designed by another engineer. The result was a near collapse situation.
1 March 2006
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 25
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of tank falsework
This report relates to the collapse of falsework erected to construct an in situ, reinforced concrete, circular water retaining structure.
1 October 2009
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 150
Region: CROSS-UK
Dangerous modification to a column
A reporter was requested to visit a warehouse to inspect work carried out to a main support column that had been modified by a builder.
1 July 2010
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 169
Region: CROSS-UK
Lack of experience on steel column erection
A reporter highlights how works progressed on site without a detailed method statement being provided by the contractor even though it had been requested.
1 April 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 324
Region: CROSS-UK
Defective imported scaffold ties
On a contract where multi lift access scaffolds had been installed for a period of up to 18 months in an exposed coastal location, it was found by a reporter on one of the regular inspections that some of the scaffold ties had failed.
1 April 2011
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 230
Region: CROSS-UK
Fall of bridge deck support due to bolt over-tightening
A 7t steel frame designed to temporarily support part of a bridge deck during bearing refurbishments work fell from height as it was about to be lowered some 21m to the ground.
1 January 2011
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 216
Region: CROSS-UK
Fabrication different from design drawings
A reporter shares their experience of how a propping design they had undertaken was fabricated and installed but not in accordance with the design drawings.
1 July 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 513
Region: CROSS-UK
Fall of old rail section from restaurant ceiling
A report was received from a tenant business manager describing how a piece of metal fell from the soffit onto a table in a restaurant/bar.
1 April 2016
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 567
Region: CROSS-UK
Collapse of lifting tackle connected by threaded bar
A reporter describes how a set of 3t chain blocks and a 1m length of 20mm diameter threaded bar failed and fell from a height of 5m.
1 October 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 692
Region: CROSS-UK
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