NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

day verifying and checking that things be done
well.
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Thank God, the Convention Center was built
and no column, no beam has fallen, nothing like
that happened. Nevertheless, we recently had
an accident, a fatality in the Natatory caused
by a beam that fell on a person. And I had to
deal with the case. Where there was a
discrepancy between two professional structural
engineers where one said one this way and one
this way not that it would not fall and the
other one said yes that it would fall, which of
the two do we believe, they are two
professionals about this.
Thus, the stability of a structure of
steel should not depend on one competent
person, but on a qualified person so that we
know how this is going to be worked. In
addition another concern or preoccupation that
I have is in reference to fall protection. It
says here that after fifteen feet you will
protect all employees but if it is connecting
it will be after thirty feet. It is required
yes, that it be utilized after fifteen feet but