The collapse came three days after initial work was done on the site. “Billy” Post, 34 his 36-year-old pregnant wife, Anita and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Koby. The girder, which was part of a widening of the C-470 overpass above I-70, fell May 15, 2004, killing William J. – the contractor and subcontractor for the job – were ridiculed for poor workmanship, CDOT received the brunt of the federal safety board’s criticism, varying from the department’s impotent oversight policies to individual employees who failed to notify superiors that work was unsatisfactory and potentially dangerous. “It disgusts me that a family was wiped out because of the sloppiness of this project.”Īlthough Asphalt Specialties Co. Rosenker, the NTSB’s acting chairman, said during the meeting in Washington, D.C., in which officials recommended several policy changes. In a series of stinging comments, including one member sarcastically questioning whether plans were written in crayon, the safety board blasted the Colorado Department of Transportation and two construction companies over planning errors, miscalculations and other missteps that led to the collapse of the 40-ton, 100-foot-long girder onto I-70 near Golden. The collapse of a girder above Interstate 70 two years ago that killed an Evergreen family was the result of work so poorly conceived and executed that it ranged from sloppy to criminally negligent, members of the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. ![]() Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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