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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
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
Incorrect CE-marking of products
A reporter from Germany raises concerns about wrongly declared and/or insufficient Declaration of Performance (DoPs) for products according to the harmonized European standards with CE-marking.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 835
Region: CROSS-UK
Products installed without CE-marking due to lower cost
Another report from Germany concerns products that have been delivered and installed on a construction site without any CE marking and Declaration of Performance (DoP) at all.
1 January 2020
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 836
Region: CROSS-UK
Policing of CE marking on steelwork
A reporter has a question regarding structural steel safety, particularly on steel gantry systems supporting lifting equipment.
1 July 2015
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 510
Region: CROSS-UK
Structural bolts and CE marking - advice wanted
A reporter seeks advice in relation to the required documents for purchasing and using structural bolts.
1 April 2014
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 416
Region: CROSS-UK
Contractor installs incorrect steel grade
A reporter came across an issue where the fabricator had used cold formed S235 commodity steel SHS rather than the specified hot formed S275 structural steel SHS.
1 April 2018
CROSS Safety Report
Report ID: 634
Region: CROSS-UK