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2396754 [2] Website. www.merrillville.in.gov. Merrillville (/ ˈmɛrəlvɪl / MAIR-əl-vil, locally [ˈmɛərvɪl]) is a town in Ross Township, Lake County, Indiana, United States. The population was 35,246 at the 2010 census. Merrillville is in east-central Lake County, in the Chicago metropolitan area.
The accident remains Indiana's deadliest industrial or construction accident. [6] Investigators from the National Bureau of Standards for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) discovered several errors that caused the collapse of the bridge section. The most likely cause of the collapse was "the cracking of a concrete pad ...
The railway bridge collapsed under a heavy train loaded with more than 500 passengers; more than 70 were killed. Chester rail bridge: Chester, Massachusetts: United States 31 August 1893: Lattice truss bridge: Removed rivets caused bridge to collapse under the weight of a train 14 killed Point Ellice Bridge: Victoria, British Columbia: Canada ...
Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse this week joined the growing list of deadly bridge collapses nationally, while renewing focus on efforts to prevent the tragedies.. In New York, about ...
MPS. Parke County Covered Bridges TR. NRHP reference No. 78000394 [ 2 ] Added to NRHP. December 22, 1978 (1978-12-22) Location. The Jeffries Ford Covered Bridge was southwest of Bridgeton, Indiana, United States. The double-span Burr Arch covered bridge structure was built by J. A. Britton in 1915 and destroyed by arson on April 2, 2002.
Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. On March 26, 2024, at 1:28 a.m. EDT (05:28 UTC), the main spans and the three nearest northeast approach spans of the Francis Scott Key Bridge across the Patapsco River in the Baltimore metropolitan area of Maryland, United States, collapsed after the container ship Dali struck one of its piers.
Investigators have determined that a skull discovered in the wall of an Illinois home in 1978 was that of an Indiana teenager who died more than 150 years ago, authorities announced Thursday. AP ...
The Dali's crash into the Francis Scott Key Bridge was a worst-case scenario — but maritime experts say it could have been much worse. A rare mayday preceded Baltimore bridge collapse: 'I couldn ...