One individual has died and three others have been injured after a Missouri bridge collapsed Wednesday afternoon throughout a concrete pour.
The 2-lane bridge in Kearney, Missouri, 27 miles north of Kansas Metropolis, collapsed whereas contractors poured concrete on the bridge deck, trapping 4 folks, in line with the Clay County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Connor R. Ernst, 22, of California, Missouri was killed within the collapse, whereas three employees escaped. Sara Boyd, spokesperson for the sheriff’s workplace, stated all the employees have been roughly the identical age. They have been engaged on prime of the bridge after they heard a popping sound and the bridge collapsed whereas pouring concrete.
Lehman Development Co., based mostly within the city of California, Missouri, is the final contractor on the venture, Mike Wilson, the county’s digital communications coordinator confirmed to Development Dive. Lehman employed Ernst and the injured employees, Boyd stated. WSP served as engineer.
Lehman and WSP didn’t reply to Development Dive’s request for remark by the point of publication.
There have been a number of different subcontracting firms on the jobsite on the time of the collapse, the sheriff’s workplace stated. Wilson couldn’t title all the employers current on the time of the incident.
The Clay County Freeway Division stated there have been no security issues previous to the collapse. A WSP engineer was on website Wednesday inspecting earlier than the deck was poured.
The Missouri bridge spans Carroll Creek as a part of Northeast 148th Road and Shady Grove Street. It had been closed since 2016. Development work on the bridge started in Might 2021, and the bridge was set to reopen in early 2023.
The Sheriff’s Workplace has handed its findings onto OSHA, which doesn’t remark publicly on ongoing investigations. Boyd stated preliminary findings didn’t present any potential felony exercise.