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Engineers Discount Steel Fractures in Toledo, Ohio, Crane Collapse.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2004
The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 19--Engineers have determined that fractures discovered in steel parts at the top of the collapsed I-280 truss crane were not the cause of the accident, The Blade has learned.
Damage to the steel appears to have been the result of the collapse, said Dr. John Fisher, an engineering professor at Lehigh University, where the metal was sent for analysis.
"They [the cracks] do not appear to be the initiator" of the collapse, Dr. Fisher, who visited the Toledo bridge site last week, said yesterday. "We originally looked at this as one potential possibility, but after careful examination this was not the case."
The analysis centered on pieces of steel that comprise a...
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