[TWIAR] Fw: [medianews] KMFC Tower Collapse

Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:59:04 -0500

      Date posted: 2002-10-30
      Missouri Tower Collapse Kills Climber
      Tower climber Sean Burroughs of Nationwide Towers was killed Tuesday
afternoon while working on a tower near Centralia, Mo. The 400-foot tower
supported KMFC(FM)'s antenna. It collapsed after the 29 year-old Burroughs
climbed to roughly 120 feet. The collapse knocked the station off the air.
OSHA is investigating the collapse, and the Boone County Sheriff's office
ruled the death as accidental. The structure was approximately 16 years old.

Greg Williams
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Tis often better to be silent and thought a fool rather than to speak and
remove all doubt.
No trees were destroyed in the sending of this contaminant-free message
We do concede, a significant number of electrons may have been
inconvenienced.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dishnut-P" <[email protected]>
To: "Media News" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 2:35 AM
Subject: [medianews] KMFC Tower Collapse

http://www.kmiz.com/news/headlines/127457.html

KMFC Tower Collapse
Daniel Grazier

It will likely be several months before we know what caused a deadly
radio tower collapse in Centralia.

The accident killed 29-year-old Sean Burroughs of West Frankfort,
Illinois and knocked Christian radio station KMFC off the air.

Burroughs was part of a maintenance crew replacing the tower's support
wires and was 120 feet up the tower when it fell.

Investigators from the Occupational Health and Safety Administration
were on the scene Wednesday. The OSHA office in Kansas City said the
investigation will likely take at least three months.

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