Local News in Brief : Death Spurs Garage Study
Redondo Beach officials reviewed construction records of a city parking garage Monday as part of an investigation of the collapse of steel ventilation gratings that killed one man and injured eight other people Sunday.
“We will reconstruct the entire process that went into” building the gratings atop the two-story Pier Plaza Parking Garage, City Manager Timothy J. Casey said. “It will be a complex matter” that will entail looking over all records and plans related to the construction of the gratings, he said.
Robert A. Bode, 36, of Tujunga, died at South Bay Hospital. Of the eight injured, the most serious was Jim Chen, 40, of Palos Verdes Estates. He was in critical condition Monday at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. The victims fell 25 feet to a concrete floor after the collapse of the gratings they were standing on.
Casey said city workers built a chain-link fence around the site Monday morning.
The victims, most of whom were runners who had just finished the beach community’s 10th annual Super Bowl Sunday 10K Run, were part of a crowd of thousands waiting for an awards ceremony climaxing the race.
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