![]() ![]() Though a genuine tragedy was narrowly averted, the accident offers a telling glimpse of the socially regressive nature of contemporary life in the US. The workers are members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Laborers International Union of North America. Horseshoe officials assured the media that the accident would not delay reopening. Workers privately informed a local Chicago television affiliate “that there has been incredible pressure to accelerate the pace of the project” in time for the casino’s reopening scheduled August 8. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) promised an investigation. ![]() Evidently the bridge had been propped up by a barge floating below, and supports gave way prematurely. The cause of the collapse has yet to be determined. In all a dozen suffered injury, but only one was hospitalized and later released. Others then fell in when the bridge collapsed, while a few more jumped in afterwards to rescue their coworkers. Several workers, feeling tremors, jumped off the bridge into the lake 10 feet below. The bridge, which attached the riverboat casino to the main pavilion, gave way early in the morning. The Horseshoe Casino, which is moored on Lake Michigan directly offshore near the border with Illinois (and the city of Chicago), was nearing completion of a $500 million remodeling project at the time of the accident. On Tuesday, a bridge collapse on a floating casino in Hammond, Indiana, injured a dozen construction workers. ![]()
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