WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed when a too-thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets, initiating a collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145. That conclusion ...

With the National Transportation Safety Board’s bell-clanging, horn-honking Tuesday press conference, “gusset plates” leaped out of the Mississippi River’s ooze and into the local lexicon.

Investigators told the National Transportation Safety Board that the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge on Aug. 1, 2007, was unavoidable once gusset plates in the center span failed.

These systems use metal plates, often called “gusset plates,” to hold the wood ... members of a ladder crew fell through the roof at a residential fire. One member disappeared completely ...

Rosenker. "During the wreckage recovery, investigators discovered that gusset plates at eight different joint locations in the main center span were fractured. The Board, with assistance from the ...

Forensic engineers probing the collapse have not yet found all the bridge's gusset plates but have seen enough damage "in some gusset plate locations that warrants further investigation," the ...

Undersized steel reinforcing plates were singled out by federal officials Thursday as the main culprit in last year's deadly Minneapolis highway bridge collapse. While steel reinforcing plates, or ...

The official, who was briefed by the National Transportation Safety Board, said that investigators found a design flaw in the bridge's gusset plates, which are the steel plates that tie steel ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Repairs on the Winona bridge will begin this week. The contractor Edward Kraemer and Sons will repair 15 gusset plates on the Highway 43 bridge in Winona.

That regular inspection found damage to several gusset plates -- the steel sheets that brace trusses under the bridge. Fifteen of those plates needed immediate replacement. Now, thirty others that ...

Undersized steel reinforcing plates were singled out by federal officials Thursday as the main culprit in last year's deadly Minneapolis highway bridge collapse. While steel reinforcing plates, or ...