![]() In 1985, the emergency shoulders were eliminated, and the bridge was re-striped with four lanes in each direction, increasing the traffic capacity by 33%, earning the bridge the determination of being 'functionally obsolete' due to carrying more traffic than it was originally designed to carry. When the bridge opened in November 1963, it carried only three lanes of traffic each way across the Ohio River. Kennedy Memorial Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky (which opened two weeks after the Spence) after the late president just days after Kennedy's assassination. Combs, however, resisted this effort at modesty by Spence and kept the name, though Combs would name the John F. Spence did not feel that he deserved the honor, and lobbied for the Bridge to be named for President Kennedy (who had been assassinated only three days before the bridge was supposed to open). The bridge, which opened a year after his retirement, was named in his honor by then Kentucky governor Bert T. Congress for over thirty years before retiring in January 1963. The bridge was named for Kentucky's longest serving congressman at the time, Brent Spence, who served in the U.S. The state contracted to have the demolition done by Kokosing.View of the B & O Freight Terminal (Cincinnati, Ohio) and the Brent Spence Bridge History The state’s investigation is continuing, and officials have not indicated a completion date, department spokesman Matt Bruning said. OSHA and the Ohio Department of Transportation have been investigating. Kokosing agreed to correct the violations and use a third-party engineering firm for five years to conduct bridge demolition engineering surveys, OSHA said. “The employer allowed employees to continue demolition operations without ensuring the corrective methods applied were effective in preventing collapse of the structure,” according to the citation. The second says bridge demolition had resumed after it was halted earlier when some uplift was found in a structural steel beam. One citation says employees were “exposed to crushing and/or struck by hazards” because the bridge deck where an excavator was performing demolition operations wasn’t sufficiently strong to support the equipment. The citations were for what OSHA terms “serious” violations. “His family will never recover from that loss and the loss of livelihood.”īurgett said, “Our friend and co-worker Brandon Carl and his family will always be in our thoughts.”Ī Michigan truck driver traveling on I-75 was injured in the late-night collapse when the front of his vehicle was crushed by falling concrete and other debris. “This man and father of four died in a preventable workplace incident,” OSHA Area Director Ken Montgomery said in a statement. The body of the 35-year-old from Augusta, Kentucky, was recovered from the rubble hours later. 19 collapse during demolition work to remove an Interstate 75 ramp bridge just north of downtown Cincinnati killed Brandon Carl. He said Kokosing has hired an outside engineering firm to reinforce the company’s procedures and “check and double-check our demolition plans” and has thoroughly reviewed its safety procedures. “We have already taken steps to make sure a tragedy like this never happens again,” CEO Brian Burgett said in a statement.
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