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At least two people have died and 5 have been injured after a part of a bridge that was under consturction collapsed in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province, Tuesday morning.

National Fire Agency believes three more workers are trapped under the debris.

The fire authorities issued a level two emergency response alert out of its three-tier system, requiring most personnel from nearby fire stations to respond to the scene.

The agency says it has deployed 53 personnel from 18 divisions to conduct a search operation.

 

[John Badman]

Imperialist Korea caused this.

 

[TowinKarz]

I can't tell you how many times I barely escaped that very thing in Just Cause 3

 

[indomitable snowman]

Death toll is 3 now
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/world/asia/south-korea-bridge-collapse.html https://archive.ph/nHe8X

Three workers were killed and five others were injured when part of a highway construction site collapsed in South Korea on Tuesday morning, officials said.

Emergency crews were searching through the rubble for victims, South Korea’s Fire Department said. The collapse happened at about 9:50 a.m. near the city of Cheonan, in South Chungcheong Province, which is about 50 miles south of Seoul, the capital.

A video published by Yonhap, a South Korean news agency, showed part of a structure supported by columns breaking into pieces and plunging to the ground.

This is a developing story that will be updated.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

That looks really flimflammy for a bridge of that magnitude. What a fuckup.

 

[iNEEDthatMoney]

Surprised this isn't in China.

 

[BradeRunna]

They couldn't afford to build a bridge like this in North Korea. Even a shitty one that would just collapse.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Surprised this isn't in China.

Guess it's an East Asian thing.

 

[Thiletonomics]

The death toll from this construction collapse is now up to 4 now.

Four people have died and six have been injured after a part of a bridge that was under construction collapsed in Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday morning.

The fire agency stated that the South Chungcheong Province Fire Headquarters first received a report at the highway construction site in Sanpyeong-ri, Anseong at 9:49 a.m.

Authorities arrived at the site 10 minutes later and began rescue operations for those trapped under the debris.

Among 10 workers on the bridge Tuesday morning, two were found dead, seven workers were injured from the collapse and one was missing as of 11:45 a.m. according to the National Fire Agency.

After rescuing the last worker later in the day, the fire authority confirmed the death of two more workers who were found severely injured and in a state of cardiac arrest.

"We learned seven Koreans and three Chinese nationals were working at the highway construction site. Among those who were found dead, two workers were Chinese," an Anseong fire station official told the reporters during the press briefing held in the afternoon.

The National Fire Agency initially issued a level two emergency response alert out of its three-tier system, requiring most personnel from nearby fire stations to respond to the scene. It deployed 48 fire trucks, 147 firefighters and three fire helicopters to the site to conduct search and rescue operations.

The alert was lifted after all the workers were found at 2:31 p.m.

Though the exact cause of the collapse has yet to be determined, the fire authority presumes the process of moving beams between the piers was a factor.

Hyundai Engineering & Construction, a company in charge of the construction, offered apologies to those who lost their lives and were injured in the accident.

The company also pledged its utmost effort to cooperate with related agencies to identify the cause.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

Steel beams can't melt if you don't use any beams.

 

[Bonesjones]

Those vertical supports look about half the size of ones in America. Not counting the shit quality of the spans.

 

[TowinKarz]

Steel beams can't melt if you don't use any beams.

In all honesty? A combination of Line-go-up corner cutting, the competency crisis and "free" government money for construction has led to steel being almost eliminated from modern works that only want to use nice, cheap, concrete, for EVERYTHING. Including things it wasn't meant for and is notoriously bad at - like the structural members of bridges that will be in tension. Leading to disaster.

It's what caused the DEI concrete foot bridge at FIU to start collapsing as they were putting it up... and what caused the collapse of that freeway bridge in Italy a few years back too..

Both were attempts to make 100% concrete suspension bridges, and that just does not work. You can't substitute flexible cable with concrete block... but they keep trying, because metal costs money.

No idea if that's what happened here, but, note the failure was not in the piers (under compression) but the deck (under tension) , I could be talking out my ass and it could be something else, probably is, but that doesn't change the fact I'm very very skeptical of the modern belief that concrete and rebar work in any application. Because they don't.

 

[OrionBalls]

I will never bitch about the shitty quality of the bridges in Pittsburgh, ever again. Not even the one with a giant hole that has simply had a metal plate over it for the last decade.

 

[Snekposter]

In all honesty? A combination of Line-go-up corner cutting, the competency crisis and "free" government money for construction has led to steel being almost eliminated from modern works that only want to use nice, cheap, concrete, for EVERYTHING. Including things it wasn't meant for and is notoriously bad at - like the structural members of bridges that will be in tension. Leading to disaster.

It's what caused the DEI concrete foot bridge at FIU to start collapsing as they were putting it up... and what caused the collapse of that freeway bridge in Italy a few years back too..

Both were attempts to make 100% concrete suspension bridges, and that just does not work. You can't substitute flexible cable with concrete block... but they keep trying, because metal costs money.

No idea if that's what happened here, but, note the failure was not in the piers (under compression) but the deck (under tension) , I could be talking out my ass and it could be something else, probably is, but that doesn't change the fact I'm very very skeptical of the modern belief that concrete and rebar work in any application. Because they don't.

I was genuinely unaware that we had modern engineers so stupid as to think reinforced concrete works just fine for high-tension loads.

 

[TowinKarz]

I was genuinely unaware that we had modern engineers so stupid as to think reinforced concrete works just fine for high-tension loads.

When that footbridge started failing as it was being placed? And had huge cracks forming around the trusses? Ones you could stick a pencil or human pinkie into? The ones in charge decided that the problem was not only not a big deal, but, could be fixed by just re-tensioning the rebars once they had it up.

Apparently, magical rebar can make concrete forms in tension that are already coming apart to just go back into the right shape!

Fortunately, the firm lost their license for doing that, and despite years of legal wrangling claiming it was not a design flaw that the thing broke up under it's own weight? They have yet to get it back.

Another big drawback of reinforced concrete is that you can't inspect the condition of the rebar as it ages/weathers. After 20 years of freeze-thaw opening fissures and letting in water? Well, it could still be good, or, it could be rusted to hell, but how can you tell when it's 6 inches below you under a slab that looks ok, but, might be rotten inside?

Meaning even competent structures made from it have an effective lifetime, beyond which it's a crapshoot if it'll stay standing.

It's a decent lifetime, like 50 - 80 years depending on local conditions, but if you want something to last? Choose a different material.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

> Hyundai Engineering & Construction, a company in charge of the construction

Shit cars, shit bridges. What can’t Hyundai shit up?

 

[Snekposter]

When that footbridge started failing as it was being placed? And had huge cracks forming around the trusses? Ones you could stick a pencil or human pinkie into? The ones in charge decided that the problem was not only not a big deal, but, could be fixed by just re-tensioning the rebars once they had it up.

Apparently, magical rebar can prevent concrete forms in tension that are already coming apart to just go back into the right shape!

Fortunately, the firm lost their license for doing that, and despite years of legal wrangling claiming it was not a design flaw that the thing broke up under it's own weight? They have yet to get it back.

Another big drawback of reinforced concrete is that you can't inspect the condition of the rebar as it ages/weathers. After 20 years of freeze-thaw opening fissures and letting in water? Well, it could still be good, or, it could be rusted to hell, but how can you tell when it's 6 inches below you under a slab that looks ok, but, might be rotten inside?

Meaning even competent structures made from it have an effective lifetime, beyond which it's a crapshoot if it'll stay standing.

It's a decent lifetime, like 50 - 80 years depending on local conditions, but if you want something to last? Choose a different material.

But... you can't tension a non-flexible material like concrete! Material physics doesn't work that way!

Fuck my life, and apparently fuck the lives of those four poor bastards who got caught by the bridge collapse.