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rampartd

(5,761 posts)
2. probably the kind of building code tump will use on the ball room
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 10:51 AM
17 hrs ago

i hope no one was injured.

we lost 4 workers when the hard rock hotel collapsed

https://www.wbrz.com/news/engineer-provides-updated-explanation-for-nola-hard-rock-hotel-collapse

“You can see where the two upper floors are moving kind of together rather than individually,” Walter Zehner said of the video. “And that indicates that the 16th floor failed and the other floors just came down with it.”

His explanation of the collapse is in harmony with an unreleased report by an engineer with the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration who reportedly discovered that 81 beams supporting the 16th floor were not up to code and dozens of them were “grossly undersized.”

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