CAVE-IN: SATURATED TUNNEL ROOF COLLAPSES, KILLING ONE

Torrential rains in the Pacific Northwest led to a January 1999 collapse of an overhead portion of the Sunset Tunnel, which carries U.S. 26 west of Portland, Oregon. A 49-year-old Oregon Department of Transportation worker in an elevated cherry picker was crushed to death when a saturated 4-by-8-ft (1.2-by-2.4-m) roof section collapsed while he was inspecting a hole. Emergency repairs, including removal of the existing sheet metal ceiling liner, should take 5 weeks.

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• Publication Date: 1999-2-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p. 7
• Serial:
  • ENR
  • Volume: 242
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0891-9526

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Collapse; Crashes; Failure; Fatalities; Occupational safety; Repairing; State departments of transportation; Structural deterioration and defects; Tunnels
• Geographic Terms: Portland (Oregon)
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I25: Design of Tunnels; I84: Personal Injuries;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00761082
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 25 1999 12:00AM