OT: UPMC employee killed outside of The Pete in construction-related accident
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It does appear that it broke loose from the Victory Heights construction site. This picture looks to be taken from the area where DeSoto turns at the Pete, with the pipe and damaged truck being on the medical school side of the street.
This is awful. Thank goodness this happened now and not last week when students were on campus, especially during commencement. It’s tragic that someone passed, but it could’ve been even worse.
Just awful.
There's absolutely no reason a piece of pipe that large should be able to leave a construction site in a high traffic area. I don't care how it happened, it's a massive failure in site safety.
There's absolutely no reason a piece of pipe that large should be able to leave a construction site in a high traffic area. I don't care how it happened, it's a massive failure in site safety.
This is very frustrating/angering as others have noted because this is the type of thing that is never supposed to happen due to safety controls. Heads will rightfully roll.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here? There’d be much more foot traffic in the area had classes still been in session. Just saying as horrific as this is, it could’ve been even worse.
Something could almost always be worse. The “Thank goodness this happened now…” doesn’t come across very well when a lady was killed.
That’s fair. Probably could’ve worded it better, but I’d like to think that you knew what I was trying to convey.
