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Scaffold's fall kills three people;
(By Suzanne Smalley and Raja Mishra, Globe Staff, 4/4/06)
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Click the play button above to hear witnesses describe the construction accident on Boylston Street. They are:
• Wayne, who would not give his last name• James Tinker, a construction worker for a company not involved in the accident• Cory Hopkins, an Emerson graduate student
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Robert Beane, 41, Baldwinville
Robert Beane had a gruff exterior that masked a sensitive core, a close friend said. (Boston Globe) |
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Michael Tsan Ty, 28, Roslindale
The physician was driving on Boylston Street when the scaffolding fell and crushed his Honda. (Boston Globe) |
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Romildo Silva, 27, Somerville
The Brazilian immigrant loved life, loved the United States, and loved his son, his family said. (Boston Globe) |
(By Scott Allen and Brian Ballou, Globe Staff, 4/5/06)
One was a Harvard-trained neurologist and brain researcher who somehow found time to run a Catholic theater company. Another was a recent immigrant who held down two jobs until his wife and 3-year-old son could join him from Brazil. The third was a longtime construction worker who lived with his ailing mother in central Massachusetts.
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Scaffold probe focuses on removal of metal tie
(By Raja Mishra and Donovan Slack, Globe Staff, 4/5/06)Investigators examining the Boston scaffolding collapse that killed three people have focused their probe on whether it was human or mechanical error that resulted in the disconnection of a metal tie that had secured the 3-ton platform to the building, possibly triggering the fatal plunge, according to a high-ranking city official.
(By Donovan Slack, Globe Staff, 4/11/06)
Workers taking down scaffolding at an Emerson College dormitory construction site went too far and disconnected the final metal tie securing a 3-ton platform to the side of the building without first attaching the scaffold to a crane, says a report released April 10.
