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The Senior Road Tower is a guyed mast for FM and TV broadcasting, measuring 1,971 feet (601 m) tall, located in unincorporated northeastern Fort Bend County near Missouri City, Texas, United States. The present mast was built in 1983. It replaced a previous tower that collapsed in a construction accident in December 1982, killing five workers.
Senior Road Tower, Missouri City, Texas, US December 7, 1982: Guyed steel lattice mast 569 Guy support wire severed Total collapse during installation of 6-ton FM antenna on new 1800 ft. tower. Five technicians killed: two on the hoist riding the FM antenna up and three on the tower.
Kansas City society was affected for years, with the collapse resulting in billions of dollars of insurance claims, legal investigations, and city government reforms. The Hyatt had been built just a few years before, during a nationwide pattern of fast-tracked large construction with reduced oversight and major failures. Its roof had partially ...
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Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
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The boy’s mother was knocked under the cab and the still-spinning wheel was on top of the kid’s leg, a tourist visiting from Oregon told ABC 7.. The tourist and others nearby then dropped what ...
The accident happened at about 1:30 p.m. [16] The quick work of brakeman Radcliff is credited with keeping the last four cars from falling into the riverbed. [17] Three of those derailed and fell over beside the rails. Only the last car remained on the tracks. The excursion train was followed by a locomotive running in reverse.