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Steel connector failures and forged certificates
According to a reporter, some suppliers are receiving components that are accompanied by certificates that are potentially false or forged.
1 July 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 254
Region: CROSS-UK
Adequacy of termination connectors for tensile bars
The following report is intended to raise concern regarding the structural adequacy, quality control and inspection techniques used in the manufacture of proprietary bar systems, in particular the cast end terminations of the bar systems.
1 July 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 256
Region: CROSS-UK
Documentation for imported large diameter steel pins
A reporter raises concerns over the possibility that foreign steel with poor, confusing or misleading documentation, is being used on safety critical structures in the UK.
1 January 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 299
Region: CROSS-UK
Certification of steel sheet piling
A Government Agency raises concerns about the authenticity of documents provided for steel sheet piles produced by an overseas manufacturer.
1 January 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 331
Region: CROSS-UK
Steel stud failures during bridge construction
This report concerns the failure of a steel studs during construction works on a new bridge associated with major road improvements.
1 October 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 332
Region: CROSS-UK
Chain hoist problem
A reporter raises concerns after brand new proprietary hoists had to be returned to the manufacturer for remedial works.
1 April 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 317
Region: CROSS-UK
Concern about bridge hangers
A reporter is concerned that a failure in recent years involving the cast connections at each end of vertical bars, which connected to a bow string arch at one end and to a bridge deck at the other, may be in use elsewhere.
1 July 2012
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 222
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
Verification of inspection documents
A reporter raises concern after evidence had recently been received that an increased number of ‘copies’ of the supplier’s inspection certificates for heavy plate products had been modified from the original state or falsified.
1 April 2011
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 226
Region: CROSS-UK
Quality of some imported steel components
Concerns are raised that the construction industry is procuring many materials such as steel plates, structural sections, and metal castings from outside the UK and that these are often found to have some issues in meeting specification.
1 January 2013
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 259
Region: CROSS-UK