Heather Curtis
WMAL.com.
WASHINGTON (WMAL) – A bridge that collapsed in Hampton Roads, Virginia in 2012 was built in part by one of the companies that constructed the bridge that collapsed at Florida International University Thursday.
The South Norfolk Jordan Bridge over the Elizabeth River between Chesapeake & Portsmouth crashed onto train tracks below it.
FIGG Bridge Engineers was one of the companies that built that bridge and the one that collapsed at FIU.
The Virginia Department of Labor and Industry fined FIGG 28,000 dollars saying the company modified a girder without approval and didn’t properly inspect it according to the Virginian-Pilot.
FIGG put out a statement Thursday that said, “In our 40-year history, nothing like this has ever happened before.”
Nobody died as a result of the bridge collapse in Hampton Roads, but four workers did get minor injuries.
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