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Construction safety problems
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William  
A recent story in The New York Times alerted me again to the problems we engineers face when called upon to inspect and be responsible for all the possible safety ramifications of our work. This headline caught my eye: "Engineer faces perjury charge after fatal Bronx fire."

The possible charges are the result of an engineer's (alleged) failure to fully (the key word) inspect a construction site, which might have caused the death of two firefighters. They were fighting a fire at a discount store when rotting support columns gave way under them, the floor collapsed, and the two men were subsequently trapped and perished. Others were also injured.
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