Part of temporary rail framework breaks off in Pearl City
DENNIS ODA / JAN. 2016
This is the view of the progress on construction of HART’s mass transit rail on Kamehameha Hwy. looking west toward Waimano Home Road.
Honolulu rail officials say they’re investigating what caused a temporary construction framework to accidentally “separate” from the elevated guideway over the weekend in Pearl City.
The incident happened Sunday as crews worked in 20-acre area known locally as the Banana Patch, according to Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation spokesman Bill Brennan. The framework belonged to Kiewit Infrastructure West, according to Brennan — it’s the firm that’s building the first 10 miles of the rail guideway. The framework was attached to the three-foot-tall sound wall that’s being erected along the guideway, he said.
No one was injured when it came off, and crews removed the detached frame from the guideway on Tuesday afternoon, he said. The crews were working on other construction-related tasks in the area when it came off, he said.
“Safety is of the utmost importance to the project team, and we’re currently reviewing the incident to prevent future occurrences,” Brennan added in a text. There’s no word yet if this was the first such incident during construction of the rail project, nor did Brennan have any immediate details on how big and heavy the detached framework was.
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they are lucky that no one was injured.
Good that all the dogs named, Lucky, stayed lucky.
How much more money did that set the rail project back?
$18,137.32
Is this really a story? All kinds of stuff happens on job sites. Yes forms do slip and sometimes they fail. Any big concrete job is like that. For the most part crews just go in and fix it as part of a normal day’s work. No big thing really.
The story is just clickbait for angry commenters. 🙂
that’s called shoddy workmanship
Funny, I actually saw this thing while getting on the freeway from Sams direction heading to Waikele. didn’t think much of it. But did notice it hanging there. Had it been in a populated area it would have been news. What a mess this thing is. Just plain ugly
If it fell and konked someone on the head and sent them to the rail station in the sky, then a huge multi-million dollar lawsuit would have been filed against The City.
the bigger story should be is why don’t all the concrete girders match up?..some are well over 3 feet off
Temporary bearings are installed first during initial segment by segment erection crew. After the temporary trusses are moved forward, another crew sets the final position of the guideway (one of the reason one of the guideway spans were damaged per HART progress report) and installs permanent bearings, and then the last step is to install the shear key (IIRC). Check out the progress of such final alignment of the elevated guideway on the Ewa end of Waipahu compared to the temporary bearings on the Honolulu end of Waipahu.
Since today is very windy, just blame the accident on the winds. The public will never know. Hawaii is so used to being lied at from our top leaders.
The article said the incident happened on Sunday. Was it windy then?
Does the hot air from Hawaii’s elected ones count as wind?
The article said the incident happened on Sunday
I’m confused because everyday I see the wind picking up a lady’s dress.
Make the OSHA report on this accident for the public to view.
“UNION”
In 1991, there was a terrible incident where an elevated portion of a highway under construction in Hiroshima city fell on the road below, killing 10 in their cars along with 5 construction workers. I’m not saying the scenarios are similar, but I hope those involved here will be extremely cautious to prevent incidents of this nature. The article I link is in Japanese but the photo and drawing are self-explanatory. Be safe. http://jikenshi.web.fc2.com/newpage703.htm
If it happened before lunch, the natto in the lunch box would have been wasted.
Add another couple of billion dollars and a few more years now!
Dog years?
curious if the accident item was related to the local workers or the mainland workers brought in to build the rail. I understand that most of the rail project is going to “specialized workers” not local workers. kiewit is not even bidding on the second 10 miles of the rail-I wonder what’s going on.
Not fair because the “local workers” have so much more experience building railways?
Funny I just went to Waipahu and back to Aiea the workers look local to me where do you live?
Hawaii is the melting pot of the world with every country’s citizen migrating here. That would make everyone a local in Hawaii.
The proof of being local is if you eat kimchi and bagoong — and like them!
I not going mention balut.
I wouldn’t even feed my puppies balut. Nasty.
Keep your puppies in your pants there chief.
Spooky…I remember driving on the H1 and seeing portions of the rail frame just hanging over the freeway and hoping it was well constructed and didn’t fall on the freeway below. Thankful that no one was injured.
How about reporting all them ripe mangos that drop from tree, and hit someone down below.
Disturbing.
Perturb.
LOL, shouldn’t someone dangle Mufi by his toenails from the Pearl City span for cursing us with this blightful, fiscally suffocating outdated tecknology-based rail system?
Anyone who uses the rail when it is done is taking their life in their hands. The posts are crumbling and now this! No way would I ride this obviously under built, unsafe structure.
Wahhhhhhh,wahhhhhh.
I would thing SA had a picture?
Taking the framework down was the fastest thing HART has ever done. It was important to get it down before the press could get any pictures.
What the deuce is that supposed to mean? You think shoddy workmanship is funny? You think someone possibly getting killed is funny? Here is proof of poorly executed work paid for by taxpayer funds and you think it’s laughable that people are upset?