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Article: Engineers blame flaw for toppling of Tech light pole.(LOCAL NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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Byline: Jacqueline Reis
WORCESTER - The light pole that fell over at the year-old Worcester Technical High School athletic fields in late winter appears to have had a flaw in its manufacturing or design, according to an engineering report.
The pole that fell was 90 feet tall, and within weeks contractors intentionally knocked over another with a bulldozer and removed a third with a crane, both as preventive measures after finding cracks on those poles. A fourth 90-foot pole is still standing, as are four 80-foot poles and three 60-foot poles.
Heery International, the city's project manager and advocate for the school, studied the poles and ...