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Workers pump concrete on the M40 motorway in the United Kingdom in this file photo from 2009. Photo: Colin Craig
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B.C. concrete pump boom collapse linked to undetected fractures and missed design upgrade

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A concrete pump truck's boom collapsed at a Vancouver-area construction site after years of undetected fatigue cracks in a critical component, a WorkSafeBC investigation has concluded. The August 2023 incident…

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