Safety Officer Warned About Big Dig in 1999
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Seven years before falling concrete crushed a motorist to death inside one of Boston’s Big Dig tunnels, a safety officer warned that the bolts could not hold the heavy ceiling panels, according to a bluntly worded memo leaked to a newspaper.
John Keaveney wrote the memo in 1999 to one of his superiors at contractor Modern Continental Construction Co., saying he could not “comprehend how this structure can withhold the test of time.”
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