The supplier of steel rods that cracked on the Bay Bridge in 2013, a construction failure that cost toll payers $45 million, never told Caltrans that nearly identical rods it made for a Washington state bridge had suffered a similar fate in 2009, The Chronicle has learned.
Less than six months after the ill-fated batch of rods arrived in California in 2008, six high-strength rods that Dyson Corp. of Ohio shipped to rebuild the Hood Canal pontoon bridge — which connects the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas in the western part of the state — failed within days of being installed, according to a review recently made public by California bridge officials.(…)
via Bay Bridge supplier failed to reveal rods’ failure in Washington – SFGate.