By: Marshall Ramsey II, Worthy News U.S. Correspondent
Below is a commentary on an article features on www.news.yahoo.com. The authors of it, Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker, appear to have been paid money to write it by someone connected to the collapse of a high-rise scaffold system as they try to place blame on the company Associated Scaffolding when the other company involved, Choate Construction, had received 20 inspections in one year alone. Read below for the story.
3 dead in scaffolding collapse at downtown Raleigh high rise
By JONATHAN DREW and MICHAEL BIESECKER
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Workers were dismantling a scaffold at a high-rise construction project on Monday when a piece of it fell to the ground in downtown Raleigh, killing three men and sending another to a hospital.
All four men were involved in the construction of Charter Square, a glass and steel building in downtown Raleigh, said Jeffrey Hammerstein, community outreach chief for Wake County EMS.
A 911 caller told the operator that men were working on the scaffold when it fell about 11 a.m. The equipment, known as a mast climber scaffold, moves up and down a building's facade to take workers to different floors.
"We just had a mast climber fall off. There were men on it," the caller said, estimating the men fell 200 feet.
The operator asked if the victims were awake, to which the caller responded: "No, they're dead."
The accident happened as subcontractor Associated Scaffolding was in the process of dismantling the scaffold on the building's general contractor, Choate Construction Company.
The accident happened as subcontractor Associated Scaffolding was in the process of dismantling the scaffold on the building's exterior, said Mike Hampton, the chief operating officer for the building's general contractor, Choate Construction Company.
(Mrs' Drew and Biesecker are going out of their way to make sure we know that Associated Scaffolding is a subcontracting company. They appear to want us to think that a subcontractor company, specifically Associated Scaffolding, cannot do quality work.)
"We are finished using it. They actually were dismantling that piece when it happened," Hampton said. "It wasn't as if it was business as usual; they went to work and it collapsed."
(Are finished using it? This means that the purpose for the scaffolding was to kill the men who were on it, which means that this was murder, and it was pre-meditated.)
Choate issued a statement saying the company is "deeply saddened by the loss of life and injuries."
Police identified the dead men as Jose Erasmo Hernandez, 41, of Durham; Jose Luis Lopez-Ramirez, 33, of Clinton; and Anderson Almeida, 33, of Durham.
A fourth man, Elmer Guevara, 53, was taken to WakeMed hospital, authorities said. The hospital said he was in fair condition.
Peter Thuston was working inside the building installing a security card reader system when the accident happened.
He said he ran outside to try to help and saw three men in safety harnesses, leading him to believe that they had been attached to the scaffolding.
"It was just a loud crash and a huge cloud of smoke," said Thuston, 32, of Garner. "I noticed three of the guys and it looked like they were dead."
Guevara, wearing a safety harness, was found on a crushed portable toilet after apparently falling onto it. He was still breathing and had a pulse, but was barely responsive.
Thuston said he had walked inside minutes before the accident.
"That could have been anybody. That could have been me," he said.
(This statement seems as though Mr. Thuston had something to do with the scaffold falling. Mr. Thuston is trying to draw sympathy to himself so that no one will ask questions as to any involvement he has in the collapse. This casts doubt as to the legitimacy of his story.)
The scaffolding that fell was attached to the side of the new building. One of the tracks had snapped off several stories up and fallen into a twisted heap on the ground below.
(According to a picture at www.newsobserver.com, the scaffolding section did not snap off. It appears, rather, to have been purposefully unsecured so as to cause its collapse, the purpose of which was to kill the workers on the scaffold. What is the connection between these men that died that warranted their deaths in someone's eyes?)
State Department of Labor spokesman Neal O'Briant said his agency is investigating. Officials had closed off a wide area around the scene.
A group of men in hard hats and yellow vests, some of which said Associated Scaffolding on them, were talking to an official near the edge of the police line. People who answered multiple calls at the company's Durham headquarters declined to comment.
(This statement casts an unnatural guilt upon Associated Scaffolding. It appears as though the statement is planted, possibly by someone with an axe to grind against the owner/owners of Associated Scaffolding. Also, why go out of your way to make sure Associated Scaffolding is mentioned? Mrs' Drew and Biesecker are again trying to cast blame in the eyes of the reader onto Associated Scaffolding.)
Hampton said the subcontractor's only job at the site was erecting and dismantling the scaffolding.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration records show that Associated Scaffolding was issued serious safety violations twice in North Carolina in the past 10 years. A 2007 citation says it was related to access equipment for scaffold platforms, while a 2008 citation says the violation was related to storage of welding materials.
(This statement clearly is designed as a hit piece on Associated Scaffolding. This means that either Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker have loyalties to the people who sabotaged (yes, a sabotage) the scaffolding. Whether or not any money or favors were paid or offered is at this time unknown, but it is certain that they are involved. Since three men died in the scaffolding collapse, this means that Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker also stand guilty of murder cover up.)
The records show that Choate Construction has been inspected 20 times in North Carolina in the past 10 years and cited for one violation, which wasn't considered serious. O'Briant said the 2014 violation was related to storing flammable materials outside without a fire extinguisher.
(Associated Scaffolding has had safety violations issued twice in 10 years while Choate Construction has been inspected 20 times during the same period, and Associated Scaffolding is the bad guy? 20 inspections in ten years means that complaints by workers of Choate Construction were made to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). While the exact number of inspections OSHA performed on Associated Scaffolding is unknown, it appears unlikely that they received 20. This means, again, that Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker are purposefully trying to cast blame toward Associated Scaffolding.)
http://news.yahoo.com/scaffolding-collapses-downtown-raleigh-injuries-unclear-164624365.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article16081955.html
Below is a commentary on an article features on www.news.yahoo.com. The authors of it, Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker, appear to have been paid money to write it by someone connected to the collapse of a high-rise scaffold system as they try to place blame on the company Associated Scaffolding when the other company involved, Choate Construction, had received 20 inspections in one year alone. Read below for the story.
3 dead in scaffolding collapse at downtown Raleigh high rise
By JONATHAN DREW and MICHAEL BIESECKER
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Workers were dismantling a scaffold at a high-rise construction project on Monday when a piece of it fell to the ground in downtown Raleigh, killing three men and sending another to a hospital.
All four men were involved in the construction of Charter Square, a glass and steel building in downtown Raleigh, said Jeffrey Hammerstein, community outreach chief for Wake County EMS.
A 911 caller told the operator that men were working on the scaffold when it fell about 11 a.m. The equipment, known as a mast climber scaffold, moves up and down a building's facade to take workers to different floors.
"We just had a mast climber fall off. There were men on it," the caller said, estimating the men fell 200 feet.
The operator asked if the victims were awake, to which the caller responded: "No, they're dead."
The accident happened as subcontractor Associated Scaffolding was in the process of dismantling the scaffold on the building's general contractor, Choate Construction Company.
The accident happened as subcontractor Associated Scaffolding was in the process of dismantling the scaffold on the building's exterior, said Mike Hampton, the chief operating officer for the building's general contractor, Choate Construction Company.
(Mrs' Drew and Biesecker are going out of their way to make sure we know that Associated Scaffolding is a subcontracting company. They appear to want us to think that a subcontractor company, specifically Associated Scaffolding, cannot do quality work.)
"We are finished using it. They actually were dismantling that piece when it happened," Hampton said. "It wasn't as if it was business as usual; they went to work and it collapsed."
(Are finished using it? This means that the purpose for the scaffolding was to kill the men who were on it, which means that this was murder, and it was pre-meditated.)
Choate issued a statement saying the company is "deeply saddened by the loss of life and injuries."
Police identified the dead men as Jose Erasmo Hernandez, 41, of Durham; Jose Luis Lopez-Ramirez, 33, of Clinton; and Anderson Almeida, 33, of Durham.
A fourth man, Elmer Guevara, 53, was taken to WakeMed hospital, authorities said. The hospital said he was in fair condition.
Peter Thuston was working inside the building installing a security card reader system when the accident happened.
He said he ran outside to try to help and saw three men in safety harnesses, leading him to believe that they had been attached to the scaffolding.
"It was just a loud crash and a huge cloud of smoke," said Thuston, 32, of Garner. "I noticed three of the guys and it looked like they were dead."
Guevara, wearing a safety harness, was found on a crushed portable toilet after apparently falling onto it. He was still breathing and had a pulse, but was barely responsive.
Thuston said he had walked inside minutes before the accident.
"That could have been anybody. That could have been me," he said.
(This statement seems as though Mr. Thuston had something to do with the scaffold falling. Mr. Thuston is trying to draw sympathy to himself so that no one will ask questions as to any involvement he has in the collapse. This casts doubt as to the legitimacy of his story.)
The scaffolding that fell was attached to the side of the new building. One of the tracks had snapped off several stories up and fallen into a twisted heap on the ground below.
(According to a picture at www.newsobserver.com, the scaffolding section did not snap off. It appears, rather, to have been purposefully unsecured so as to cause its collapse, the purpose of which was to kill the workers on the scaffold. What is the connection between these men that died that warranted their deaths in someone's eyes?)
State Department of Labor spokesman Neal O'Briant said his agency is investigating. Officials had closed off a wide area around the scene.
A group of men in hard hats and yellow vests, some of which said Associated Scaffolding on them, were talking to an official near the edge of the police line. People who answered multiple calls at the company's Durham headquarters declined to comment.
(This statement casts an unnatural guilt upon Associated Scaffolding. It appears as though the statement is planted, possibly by someone with an axe to grind against the owner/owners of Associated Scaffolding. Also, why go out of your way to make sure Associated Scaffolding is mentioned? Mrs' Drew and Biesecker are again trying to cast blame in the eyes of the reader onto Associated Scaffolding.)
Hampton said the subcontractor's only job at the site was erecting and dismantling the scaffolding.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration records show that Associated Scaffolding was issued serious safety violations twice in North Carolina in the past 10 years. A 2007 citation says it was related to access equipment for scaffold platforms, while a 2008 citation says the violation was related to storage of welding materials.
(This statement clearly is designed as a hit piece on Associated Scaffolding. This means that either Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker have loyalties to the people who sabotaged (yes, a sabotage) the scaffolding. Whether or not any money or favors were paid or offered is at this time unknown, but it is certain that they are involved. Since three men died in the scaffolding collapse, this means that Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker also stand guilty of murder cover up.)
The records show that Choate Construction has been inspected 20 times in North Carolina in the past 10 years and cited for one violation, which wasn't considered serious. O'Briant said the 2014 violation was related to storing flammable materials outside without a fire extinguisher.
(Associated Scaffolding has had safety violations issued twice in 10 years while Choate Construction has been inspected 20 times during the same period, and Associated Scaffolding is the bad guy? 20 inspections in ten years means that complaints by workers of Choate Construction were made to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). While the exact number of inspections OSHA performed on Associated Scaffolding is unknown, it appears unlikely that they received 20. This means, again, that Jonathan Drew and Michael Biesecker are purposefully trying to cast blame toward Associated Scaffolding.)
http://news.yahoo.com/scaffolding-collapses-downtown-raleigh-injuries-unclear-164624365.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/wake-county/article16081955.html
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