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Erector Crew Error Blamed for Beam Accident at Center for Computing & Data Sciences Construction Site

Two workers suffered minor injuries in May 14 accident, captured on video

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Erector Crew Error Blamed for Beam Accident at Center for Computing & Data Sciences Construction Site

A failure to properly brace a 44-foot-tall steel beam led to a spectacular, dominoes-like tumbling of metal behemoths at the construction site of BU’s Center for Computing & Data Sciences, according to the investigation of the incident, which was caught on a surveillance video and went viral across social media.

Two workers were briefly hospitalized for minor injuries after falling off the tumbling beams in the mishap....

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Erector Crew Error Blamed for Beam Accident at Center for Computing & Data Sciences Construction Site

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