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Roadbuilding
‘Fire in the hole!’ Watch MaineDOT explode old bridge piers
The MaineDOT took out the piers of the old bridge between Beals Island and Jonesport with explosives. Check out the video here on Equipment World.
November 16, 2020
Roadbuilding
Quick implosion downs old Savanna Bridge over Miss. River
Within seconds, a bridge connecting Illinois and Iowa over the Mississippi River came down in one giant blast. Watch videos of the March 9 demolition: The bridge was built in 1932 between Savanna, Illinois, and Sabula, Iowa, and at 20 feet wide was too narrow to handle wider vehicles that often overlapped the center line. […]
March 14, 2018
Roadbuilding
Watch Caltrans use explosives to move a 20-ton boulder
A 20-ton boulder blocking a rural road might seem like an pretty difficult thing to move, but not when you have explosives. After the massive boulder fell onto U.S. Highway 50 about 80 miles north of Sacramento, the California Department of Transportation cleared the area and brought in the big guns – well, big explosives. In […]
January 21, 2016
Roadbuilding
Oklahoma DOT blows up a bridge as part of expansion project
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation needed a bridge out of the way for a new highway expansion project. So what better way to get rid of it than with some explosives? ODOT blew up a portion of the bridge on US 169 near Owasso, and luckily, the department set up a camera to get the […]
December 30, 2015
Roadbuilding
Construction equipment battery explodes, closing police HQ
The battery in a piece of construction equipment located in the lobby of Columbus, Ohio, police headquarters exploded last night, causing the building to be evacuated and streets in the Downtown Columbus area to be shut down for about 5 hours, according to a Columbus Dispatch report. The battery in the equipment, about the size […]
September 25, 2013
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Explosion at Caterpillar repair site injures one worker
An explosion at a Caterpillar mining equipment repair site in Carrier Mills, Illinois leveled a building and sent one worker to the hospital, the Associated Press reports. The cause of the explosion, which happened Monday, is still unknown. Caterpillar spokesperson Rusty Miller told the AP that the blast occurred in an unattached paint building on […]
February 12, 2013
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