Power failure in 450 unit apartment building, (April 29,2022, Austin, TX)

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I had somewhat similar recently, mostly smaller conduits and not nearly as many. But was roof collapse from snow load and not so much electrician's fault the ceiling came down. Was about a 50 year old building, had an addition put on in the past 10 years, addition was higher profile than original building, causing snow to drift onto the part that did collapse as wind was passing over everything. Nobody got hurt but owner and another employee were in there when it collapsed. Owner said he was in area immediately adjacent to where the collapse occurred though.
 
During construction at LaGuardia Terminal B, the general rule was "no ceiling anchors". Everything had to be supported off the beam sidewalls, which was also a fun time getting the engineer to sign off on.
 
I don't have a link but had a photo of a group of 3 or 4 inch conduits that came through a suspended ceiling in a nursing home, cause was the installer used 16d nails to attach the mini's to the framing, they pulled out and the rest is history.
 
Years ago I knew of a big box store in downtown Atlanta, that had a rack of big conduits fall from the ceiling. It was a couple of months after it opened. I believe one customer was injured. Wrong anchors were used.
 
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