Missing nuts and bolts caused last year's deadly construction elevator accident in Sweden

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Missing nuts and bolts caused last year's deadly construction elevator accident in Sweden
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A construction elevator that killed five people when it collapsed last year in Stockholm was missing the bolts that were supposed to hold its mast together. Authorities said Wednesday that the crash “was caused by omission to perform relevant safety inspections of the hoist assembly.' The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority said of the Dec.

FILE - Swedish police arrive at the site where a construction elevator crashed to the ground on a building site seriously injuring several people in Sundbyberg, north of Stockholm , Sweden , Monday Dec. 11, 2023. Missing screw and nut assemblies was the cause of a fatal accident last year when five people were killed inside a construction site elevator that crashed to the ground in Stockholm , authorities said Wednesday, July 3, 2024.

The agency said its probe had showed that five of the nut and bolt assemblies required to hold sections of the elevator’s mast together were missing, leaving the shaft standing only because of friction between its sections.

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