We spent a day studying this in my intro to engineering course, in college. Very sobering.
A brutal one if I remember correctly.
Well There’s Your Problem did an episode on it early in the podcast, go check it out: https://wtyppod.podbean.com/e/episode-4-hyatt-regency-walkway-collapse/
And then check the rest because it’s some really good stuff.
I was surprised based on high body count that I hadn’t heard of it before!
I just can’t stand the amount of talking over each other they do.
Good podcast episode on this, 14 minutes
Brady Heywood Podcast: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/brady-heywood-podcast/episode-2-the-hyatt-regency-collapse
A surgeon spent 20 minutes amputating one victim’s pinned and unsalvageable leg with a chainsaw; that victim later died. 💀
The final rescued victim, Mark Williams, spent more than nine hours pinned underneath the lower skywalk with both legs dislocated and having nearly drowned before the water was shut off.
Jack D. Gillum would later reflect that the design flaw was so obvious that “any first-year engineering student could figure it out,” if only it had been checked
Any respectable engineering firm now has a quality control prices where a completely different engineer from the designer of record reviews final plans or any major change orders.
Peer review is standard in IT changes and ours can’t even (normally) cause mortal injuries
Oooh! This is the 10th deadliest bridge disaster that we know of! I’ve been obsessed with disasters since I was a little girl, and it’s gross how some of the top 10 were caused by corporate greed…
Don’t even get me started on deadliest factory incidents or mining disasters. I could go on forever.
How do you feel about molasses?
I was surprised when I heard about a sugar factory exploding. I had no idea if there was enough sugar particles in the air then it could ignite.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Georgia_Imperial_Sugar_refinery_explosion
You can do a super fun science experiment at home (custard powder is commonly used but icing sugar might work) to demonstrate this.
Oh neat. I might regret finding out about that later. 😂
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Gyatt Regency
I knew an Ironworker who told them, “That ain’t gonna hold.”
He was told that he didn’t know what he was taking about.
