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TRC attempts to explain how its demolition bid halved in price
DemolitionNews has learned that TRC Environmental, the company at the eye of the storm over the bid/re-bid at the Austin’s Holly Street power plant had attemtped to allay the fears of city officials as recently as last week.
According to Austin News, TRC sent the council [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/04/28/questions-remain-over-slashed-holly-street-bid-price/

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OSHA records reveal previous safety violations by Grant Mackay.
The investigation into the exact cause of the collapse of the Flagship Hotel in Galveston that resulted in the death of demolition worker Tauelangi Angilau may have only just stared; but already local newspapers are citing the safety track record of Grant Mackay, the demolition contractor that [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/04/28/flagship-hotel-contract-has-safety-track-record/

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Ahead of 25th anniversary of meltdown, workshop analyses demolition possibility.
An employee at the Dounreay nuclear power plant in the UK has offered guidance on the decommissioning of Chernobyl.
The 25th anniversary of an explosion in a reactor at the Ukrainian site will be marked on 26 April.
Jillian Bundy was one of four foreign speakers at a [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/04/28/douneray-offers-chernobyl-demolition-advice/

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Video captures rescue of machine that fell into store basement.
An excavator being used to demolish the former J.C. Penney building in downtown Ishpeming fell through the floor into the building’s basement.
The accident happened around 3 p.m. as crews from T&G United of Iron Mountain were working to demolish the building, where exterior work began Monday.
Crews [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/04/28/excavator-falls-into-jc-penney-basement/

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Wrexham mines centre demolition: Neville Dickens fined
A Wrexham businessman has been fined £2,000 and ordered to pay £1,700 costs for partially bulldozing an historic mines rescue centre without permission.
Motor dealer Neville Dickens pleaded guilty to the unauthorised demolition of the listed building on Maesgwyn Road. Two men he employed to carry out the [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/04/28/man-fined-over-mine-demolition/

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Excavator tips over during demolition of downtown Dayton building
One of two excavators demolishing the Montgomery County Court Services building downtown at the corner of W. 2nd and Perry streets tipped over on its side when a wall collapsed Thursday evening, for a short time trapping the operator in his cab.
Dayton firefighters working from a ladder [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/01/photo-excavator-tips-trapping-operator/

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Demolition workers’ lucky escape as scaffolding falls into street.
Scaffolding around a row of terraced houses due for demolition in north Staffordshire has collapsed.
The scaffolding had been erected in Wellington Road in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The Health and Safety Executive is investigating. West Midlands Ambulance Service said it was called to the street at 10.30. [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/02/hse-investigate-stoke-scaffold-collapse/

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Minnesota man loses fingers as crawler crane tips over.
A Laporte man was transported to the Bemidji hospital Monday afternoon when the crawler crane he was doing demolition work on tipped, pinning him temporarily.
There was no immediate condition on David Corson, 45. Eyewitnesses at the scene said after being rushed to Sanford Hospital, emergency crews used [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/03/fingers-severed-in-crawler-crane-accident/

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Demolition workers lucky to be alive; saved by sausage sandwich.
More details are emerging on Saturday’s scaffolding collapse in Stoke. Accordingt o local newspaper reports, the incident happened when workers from Potteries Demolition began work to demolish a row of 18 terraced houses in Wellington Road.
Although the Health and Safety Executive is yet to [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/03/stoke-scaffolding-collapse-update/

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2012 deadline set for replacement of Jeremiah Morrow Bridge.
Sometime next summer, Ohio’s highest bridge will be blown to bits. Or the northbound half of it, anyway. The state’s tallest span is actually two bridges, and together they make up the picturesque Jeremiah Morrow Bridge that carries both lanes of Interstate 71 high over [...]


http://www.demolitionnews.com/2011/05/03/days-are-numbered-for-ohios-highest-bridge/