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Collapse of U.S. 35 Highway Bridge, Point Pleasant, West Virginia, December 15, 1967 (HAR-71/01)

National Transportation Safety Board · 1970-12-16 · 202 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This is the final highway accident report (NTSB-HAR-71-1) from the National Transportation Safety Board, adopted in December 1970. It covers the collapse of the U.S. 35 bridge between Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Kanauga, Ohio, on December 15, 1967, which killed 46 people. The Board found that the cause was a cleavage fracture in eyebar 330 at joint C13N. That fracture grew from a flaw produced over 40 years by stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue, in a spot that could not be seen or found by inspection.

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

Figure 2d - Detail of Expansion Joint of Connection of Truss to Chain Bent Post.

the two side spans into the four chain bent posts in the bridge.

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