Lear's Safety Services

06/01/2026

A man is dead after a trench collapsed Sunday night in Olmsted County. https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/man-dies-after-trench-collapses-in-olmsted-county/89-d775bbdc-95d7-45a3-bb73-ace2b614df93

05/31/2026

My friends from CIC power box. They are awesome

05/24/2026

Exactly

05/20/2026

On July 17, 1981, two suspended walkways inside the Kansas City Hyatt Regency hotel collapsed during a packed tea dance, killing 114 people and injuring 216 more. It remains one of the deadliest structural failures in American history. The cause was a single design change — made for convenience — that no one ever properly reviewed.

The original design used continuous threaded rods running from the ceiling through both the second and fourth floor walkways. A contractor proposed splitting the rods into two separate sections, connecting at the fourth floor box beam. That one change doubled the load on the fourth floor connection. No formal engineering review was ever done on the modification. The night of the collapse, the fourth floor box beam pulled right over the rod nut and both walkways came down in seconds. The Missouri engineering board revoked the licenses of the lead engineers. The case became required study in engineering ethics programs across the country.

One modification. One missed review. 114 people on a dance floor. The Hyatt Regency collapse is what happens when the chain between design and approval has one link nobody checked.

Follow for more welding news, fails, and facts daily.

05/20/2026

Memphis Fire officials rescued a man who was 'buried up to his neck' after a trench collapsed beneath him.

Source: https://www.localmemphis.com/video/news/local/mfd-rescues-man-buried-up-to-his-neck-after-trench-collapse/522-8bc4aa72-f9c9-4aac-9b60-f3abfa5dbc60

05/20/2026