The technical amendment was added as a result of the May 15, 2004, collapse of a steel bridge beam onto an interstate highway in Colorado, killing three people in an SUV passing below.
Almost four years after the National Transportation Safety Board attributed the collapse of a steel bridge girder in Golden, Colo., on May 15, 2004, to the failure of a temporary bracing system by the contractor and poor oversight by the Colorado Department of Transportation, OSHA has made a technical amendment to its steel erection standards to alert construction contractors that the Federal Highway Administration requires a Registered Engineer to prepare drawings for such falsework in many cases. The falling beam, part of a bridge widening project at the intersection of Interstate 70 and Colorado State Route 470, struck an SUV passing beneath it, killed the occupants, a couple and their 2-year-old child.
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