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Big Dig job may have used wrong epoxy

Total of bolts affected not clear; probers ask who knew

Ceiling bolts recovered from debris following a Big Dig ceiling collapse that killed a Jamaica Plain woman. Ceiling bolts recovered from debris following a Big Dig ceiling collapse that killed a Jamaica Plain woman. (ESSDRAS M SUAREZ/GLOBE STAFF)
By Scott Allen and Sean P. Murphy
Globe Staff / May 3, 2007

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Contractors apparently used the wrong adhesive to install at least some of the bolts in a Big Dig tunnel ceiling that partially collapsed last summer, project records show, prompting criminal investigators to focus on whether the mix-up was a significant factor in the accident that killed a Jamaica Plain woman. (Full article: 1396 words)

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