International Business News - Collapse http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif The National Transportation Safety Board says it will have a draft in November of its final report the deadly Minneapolis bridge collapse last year. The agency said Friday the draft report will identify the probable cause of the collapse and include safety recommendations to prevent future disasters. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/probe-to-identify-bridge-collapse-cause-in-nov.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:05:28 EDT Morris Choo's losing lottery ticket may have been the luckiest of his life. Choo, 35, said he had been chatting with friends at a construction walkway but left to buy the ticket minutes before the block-long wooden structure collapsed Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/118420-correction-scaffold-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/san-diego-walkway-collapse-leaves-16-injured.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080829/san-diego-walkway-collapse-leaves-16-injured.htm Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:36:02 EDT A block-long covered walkway next to a construction scaffold collapsed on Thursday, trapping and injuring 16 pedestrians, three critically. About 25 people were standing in the walkway to escape the hot, August sun when its wooden walls and roof came crashing down. Some scaffolding along the 3-story building also fell. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/118302-correction-scaffold-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/scaffold-collapses-in-san-diego-injuring-9.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080828/scaffold-collapses-in-san-diego-injuring-9.htm Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:49:13 EDT An ice cave collapsed on two teenage boys Thursday, trapping them for hours until rescuers with chain saws managed to cut through large chunks of compact snow and ice to free them. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080822/crews-rescue-2-teens-trapped-in-wash-snow-field.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:24:47 EDT An ice cave collapsed on two teenage boys Thursday, trapping them for hours until rescuers with chain saws managed to cut through large chunks of compact snow and ice to free them. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/collapsed-snow-field-traps-2-teens-in-wash-state.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:38:52 EDT Search and rescue crews are trying to dig out two teenagers trapped in a collapsed snow cave near a mountain summit east of Seattle. Snoqualmie (snow-'KWAHL-mee) Pass Fire Chief Matt Cowan says hikers with the teens called 911 early Thursday afternoon. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/collapsed-snow-cave-traps-2-teens-in-wash-state.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:53:04 EDT Federal investigators said Thursday they have solved a mystery of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks: the collapse of World Trade Center building 7, a source of long-running conspiracy theories. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/113695-attacks-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/feds-say-fire-destroyed-structure-next-to-towers.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/feds-say-fire-destroyed-structure-next-to-towers.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:08:53 EDT A tourist from Nevada was killed Wednesday when a stretch of oceanside bluff at the Torrey Pines State Beach collapses, authorities said. The 57-year-old, whose identity was not released, was at the beach with his brother and nephew when rocks the size of basketballs came down, officials said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/113089-beach-bluff-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/man-dies-when-bluff-collapses-at-san-diego-beach.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080821/man-dies-when-bluff-collapses-at-san-diego-beach.htm Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:28:53 EDT A stretch of oceanside bluff below the Torrey Pines Golf Course collapsed and killed a man Wednesday, authorities said. The man, whose identity was not released, suffered severe head trauma when he was struck by the falling rocks, said San Diego police spokesman Gary Hassen. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/man-dies-when-bluff-collapses-at-san-diego-beach.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:56:17 EDT The leg of a giant crane being dismantled at a shipyard collapsed on Thursday, killing an ironworker, a city official said. Workers had been dismantling the 25-story crane known as Goliath for several weeks at the Fore River Shipyard in preparation for its shipment to Romania. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080815/crane-leg-collapses-in-mass-shipyard-1-dead.htm Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:14:45 EDT The leg of a giant crane being dismantled at a shipyard collapsed on Thursday, killing an ironworker, a city official said. Workers had been dismantling the 25-story crane known as Goliath for several weeks at the Fore River Shipyard in preparation for its shipment to Romania. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080814/crane-collapses-in-mass-shipyard-1-dead.htm Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:30:56 EDT A five-story building in a crowded residential neighborhood of India's main financial city collapsed Wednesday after monsoon rains, killing at least 20 people. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/police-say-11-killed-in-mumbai-building-collapse.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:38:56 EDT The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed. It says it does not know why some 10 percent of the debating chamber's ceiling came down on Thursday last week. No one was hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/roof-falls-in-on-european-parliament-building.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:24:10 EDT The collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine one year ago was so extensive, federal officials found no other mining disaster in the last 50 years to compare to it. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/104148-utah-mine-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/year-after-utah-mine-collapse-many-failures-clear.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/year-after-utah-mine-collapse-many-failures-clear.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:41:17 EDT Within seconds in the early hours of Aug. 6, 2007, a level section of Utah's Crandall Canyon mine as large as 63 football fields collapsed, bringing down hundreds of coal pillars and trapping six men nearly half a mile underground. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080805/miners-relatives-say-company-feds-failed-them.htm Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:01:13 EDT Turkish authorities have arrested three managers and charged them with negligence in the collapse of a girls' dormitory that killed 18 people last week, an official said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080804/3-arrested-in-turkey-for-fatal-dormitory-collapse.htm Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:08:34 EDT Rescue workers called off the search for survivors in the debris of a girls dormitory that collapsed in central Turkey after pulling out the body of the 18th victim, an official said Saturday. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/102214-turkey-dormitory-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080802/rescue-effort-stopped-in-turkey-dormitory-collapse.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080802/rescue-effort-stopped-in-turkey-dormitory-collapse.htm Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:26:49 EDT It was another perfect summer day--so similar to and yet so different from that day a year ago when the Minneapolis freeway bridge fell. On Aug. 1, 2007, there was crashing and panic and disbelief and horror. On Friday, there were songs and doves and tears and hugs. And then silence, to remember the moment a year ago when the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during the evening rush hour, killing 13 people and injuring more than 140. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/102124-bridge-collapse-anniversary.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/minn-victims-still-struggling-after-bridge-fall.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/minn-victims-still-struggling-after-bridge-fall.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:22:59 EDT A three-story girls dormitory collapsed in central Turkey on Friday, killing at least 17 students and setting off a search for a half dozen people believed to be under the rubble, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101785-turkey-dormitory-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/dormitory-collapse-in-turkey-kills-6.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080801/dormitory-collapse-in-turkey-kills-6.htm Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:53:17 EDT A crane that was removing steel beams to dismantle an old river bridge became overloaded and toppled Wednesday, killing one worker and injuring another. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/101065-crane-collapse.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/crane-collapses-on-bridge-in-central-texas.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080730/crane-collapses-on-bridge-in-central-texas.htm Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:06:03 EDT