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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Convention center section collapses; worker killed Tuesday, February 12, 2002 The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A section of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center that is under construction collapsed this afternoon, killing a Moon ironworker and injuring two others. One worker died and two others were injured when steel girders for part of the new David L. Lawrence Convention Center collapsed this afternoon. Click to more images from the scene. (Steve Mellon, Post-Gazette photo) Steel girders that were to be part of the second phase of the center's reconstruction apparently fell before 3 p.m. in an area near the Allegheny River and a railroad bridge. One worker, tentatively identified as Paul Corsi, was trapped under the falling material and died. Two other workers were injured and taken to Allegheny General Hospital. A security guard at the 11th Street entrance to the site who wouldn't give his name said, "I heard a rumbling, a noise like thunder." The dead man was trapped under several steel girders and crushed according to a witness at the scene. The victim reportedly was from Moon Township. One witness arrived at Allegheny General's emergency room and showed several large bolts that he said apparently had snapped during the accident. The man said two or three workers were atop the girders with safety harnesses when the structure collapsed. The man who was killed was working on the ground, he said. "I got a call from the Ironworkers (Union). I know it's one of their guys," said Rich Stanizzo of the Pittsburgh Building and Construction Trades Council. One of the injured at AGH apparently "rode" the structure to the ground and another may have been dangling for a time from the girders. Hospital spokesman Dan Laurent said a 39-year-old worker treated there was able to walk around the scene and never lost consciousness. His injuries appeared to be minor. Information was not immediately available on the second injured worker. Steve Leeper, head of the Sports and Exhibition Authority, which is building the convention center, confirmed that one worker was killed and he knew of one injured. He did not have identities. Leeper was in the finished part of the building and "heard a loud noise like the collapse of structural steel. . . . It was a shocking event." Location of the expanded David L. Lawrence Convention Center Downtown, bordered by the Allegheny River on the north. (Post-Gazette) The large section that collapsed was to have been part of the 13th column line out of 15 main support structures that run north to south between the Allegheny River and Penn Avenue. Federal and local inspectors are on the scene. The section that collapsed was not part of the almost-finished first section that is to host its first convention Feb. 23. Leeper does not believe that show, for recreational vehicles, will be delayed. Construction on the $331 million center, designed by New York City architect Rafael Vinoly, began in April 2000. Delays pushed back the opening from January 2002 to February, and workers have been hurrying to finish sections of the building in time for the RV show. The second event, the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show, is scheduled for March 8-17. The complete convention center, including a 35,000-square-foot ballroom and 52 meeting rooms, is scheduled to be open by March 2003. When finished it will be a 1.6 million-square-foot convention center, four times as large as the old facility. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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