Some Guidelines for Truss Collapse Investigations

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Some Guidelines for Truss Collapse Investigations

  • WTCA Legal Counsel Kent Pagel has presented many of the risk management and liability avoidance programs, which will soon be available online in an up-dated and modified format.
  • At BCMC 2004, one question in the Manufacturers’ Roundtable was the im-portance of handling truss collapses proactively and the need to establish guidelines on how to properly conduct truss collapse investigations.
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2005 Jan/Feb

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