Engineers are scrutinizing a St. Peter bridge that’s one of seven truss bridges around the state that has the type of gusset plates fingered in a preliminary report as a possible cause of the I-35W ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board looking for the cause of the Minneapolis bridge collapse are focusing attention on a corroded gusset plate in the section of ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Interstate 35W bridge collapsed when a too-thin gusset plate ripped along a line of rivets, initiating a collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145. That conclusion from a ...

Old photos of the Interstate 35W bridge show that two steel connecting plates were slightly bent as early as 2003 — four years before the span collapsed into the Mississippi River, killing 13 people.

After more than 15 months of investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board began presenting their findings on the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge at a two-day hearing that started ...

National Transportation Safety Board investigators said on Nov. 13 that the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse that killed 13 people and injured 145 others started when gusset plates on the upper side ...

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A maintenance crew repaired a corroded gusset plate Tuesday on the Interstate Bridge, but the work hasn't quickened plans to replace the 69-year-old structure. Minnesota Department of Transportation ...