""Lives should have never been lost, as with all accidents that we investigate, this was preventable." Driving the news: The highway workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when the 984-foot-long containership struck it on March 26, 2024 "were not notified of the Dali's emergency situation before the bridge collapsed," the report says. "Also contributing to the loss of life was the lack of effective and immediate communications to notify the highway workers to evacuate the bridge.""
"The workers "may have had sufficient time to drive to a portion of the bridge that did not collapse" had they been notified around the same time as police, the report found. Zoom in: Investigators said Tuesday the loose wire in the ship's electrical system caused a breaker to unexpectedly open. That triggered a series of events that led to two vessel blackouts."
""Investigators found that wire-label banding prevented the wire from being fully inserted into a terminal block spring-clamp gate, causing an inadequate connection," per an NTSB statement accompanying the report."
NTSB investigators concluded that the Key Bridge collapse and resulting deaths were preventable. Highway workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge were not notified of the Dali's emergency before the bridge collapsed, and inadequate, ineffective, and untimely communications prevented evacuation. A loose wire in the vessel's electrical system caused a breaker to unexpectedly open, producing two blackouts. Wire-label banding prevented full insertion of a wire into a terminal block spring-clamp gate, creating an inadequate electrical connection. Those combined mechanical and communication failures led to the fatal outcome.
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