December 5, 2014
The city of Gatlinburg and its wastewater operator have been dropped from a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the families of two workers who were killed when a wall collapsed. The families John Eslinger and Don Storey filed suit after …
November 4, 2014
Authorities say three workers in Bedford County were injured when a wall from a building under construction collapsed on them. According to the Shelbyville Times-Gazette, the accident happened Saturday morning. The wall was part of a new football fieldhouse being …
October 24, 2014
A Nicaragua government official says nine people have died when a wall collapsed in heavy rains, crushing five homes in the capital city of Managua. Managua Secretary General Fidel Moreno says the collapse happened in an hour of heavy rain …
April 20, 2013
A wall has collapsed at a Hendersonville, Tenn., construction site and two construction workers were killed. The Tennessean reported a third worker was injured. Keith Douglas of Sumner County Emergency Management Agency said the injured worker was airlifted to Vanderbilt …
December 5, 2011
Police say 11 people were killed when a high concrete wall collapsed in a housing complex on central Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. South Sulawesi police chief Maj. Gen. Johny Waenal Usman says the 23-foot-high wall collapsed and buried several houses Sunday …