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Ceiling collapse in an educational building
A suspended ceiling in a large teaching hall collapsed days before the official opening of a new educational building.
1 April 2008
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 100
Region: CROSS-UK
Steel column erection anchoring connection failure injured worker
This report describes how a construction worker was injured during the erection of a steel column due to shortcomings in erection procedures and inadequacies in a column base connection.
10 May 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 992
Region: CROSS-US
Temporary movement joint in slabs not installed correctly
Dowels in temporary movement joints for a slab were not installed correctly, impacting the structural behaviour.
29 March 2021
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 998
Region: CROSS-UK
Failure to grout steel frame bases
A reporter describes a problem that arose during the construction stage of a project when a steel frame supporting pipe and cable racks was loaded before the frame baseplates were grouted.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1190
Region: CROSS-UK
Incorrectly installed tension control bolts could have led to serious consequences
A reporter finds incorrectly installed system HRC preload bolt assemblies, better known as tension control bolts, during a site inspection of a new highway bridge over a railway. The incorrectly fitted bolts could have had major structural implications, and led to other safety risks, if the installation error had not been spotted.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1196
Region: CROSS-UK
Wrong length blind bolts lead to unsafe bridge structure
Bridge strengthening being carried out using blind bolts left a structure in an unsafe condition with traffic loading on it.
20 February 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1185
Region: CROSS-UK
Water ingress to cross-laminated timber structural frame
In an eight year old building that included cross-laminated timber construction, it was found that water penetration had caused parts of the structure to rot.
6 June 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1124
Region: CROSS-UK
Critical welding of structural steelwork missed
The designer of a steelwork roof frame found a critical fabrication error when inspecting steelwork on site before it was erected.
21 November 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1126
Region: CROSS-UK
Rotting plywood decking on grandstand
During visual structural inspections of temporary demountable grandstands, a walkway board failed when it was walked on.
31 May 2022
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1092
Region: CROSS-UK
Concern about rebending starter bars
This report concerns the bending and rebending of starter bars on site during the construction of a multi storey tower. The reporter considered that such a practice could compromise the structure under extreme load conditions.
24 May 2023
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 1164
Region: CROSS-UK