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Seattle has undergone a construction boom since the Great Recession, tallying 60 cranes in early 2019—the most in one city in the United States at the time. [6] The last local crane incident to include fatalities occurred in November 2006 during construction of the Expedia Building in Bellevue, which killed one person in a nearby building. As ...
A construction elevator carrying 21 people plunged five floors when the cable broke. [31] [32] Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. 5 0 1999-09-07 An elevator carrying 5 painters fell from the 10th floor at an apartment building under construction, killing everyone on board. [33] Yongin, South Korea: 5 0 2009-04-02
The incident led to about 100 to 240 cancer deaths. [2] [3] [4] May 1962: The Centralia mine fire in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania began due to a fire on the surface accidentally igniting the mine's shallow coal vein, forcing the gradual evacuation of the Centralia borough. The fire continues to burn underneath the abandoned settlement.
Forms filled out by members of the Boise Fire Department provide new details about what first responders found and observed at the site of a deadly building collapse Jan. 31 near the Boise Airport.
Residential building: 34 dead, 40 injured 1971: 2000 Commonwealth Avenue collapse: Boston, Massachusetts, US: Condominium building under construction: 4 dead, 30 injured 1971: South Bridge Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany: Bridge under construction: 13 dead, 13 injured 1971: 1971 Certej dam failure: Certeju de Sus, Hunedoara County ...
The mountain opened for the 1939–40 season as Winter Park Ski Area [3] and was owned and operated by the city and county of Denver until 2002, when Denver entered into a partnership with Intrawest ULC, a Canadian corporation headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, which operated the resort until Intrawest was acquired by Alterra Mountain Company in 2018.
A family's close encounter with a giraffe at a Texas drive-thru safari park was captured on camera, showing the animal plucking a toddler out of the bed of their truck and several feet into the air.
Yan Lift, incorporated as Lift Engineering & Mfg. Co., was a major ski lift manufacturer in North America. Founded in 1965 and based in Carson City , Nevada, the company built at least 200 fixed-grip chairlifts, [ citation needed ] as well as 31 high-speed quads. [ 1 ]