AAD-0692

[Spot on the Golden Gate Bridge from which two iron workers fell to their deaths]

1953 Nov. 6

Still image

1 photographic print: b&w.

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Folder: S.F. Bridges-Golden Gate-Accidents.
Newscopy: "Two iron workers plunged 246 feet to their death today from the Golden Gate Bridge. They were carried downward when a 12ư-ton scaffold they were propelling along the bridge structure suddenly collapsed. They were identified as A. Croxson of San Francisco and D. Hogan of Walnut Creek. They were employed by the Judson-Pacific-Murphy Corp. of Emeryville, which began work in September on the job of laterally bracing the bridge to strengthen it against wind damage."
Newscopy: "DEATH SCENE--About a dozen workers were standing on this outside girder, on the west side of the Golden Gate Bridge, today, when a rope attached to a scaffolding snapped and two of the workers dropped to death in the waters below. Picture shows one worker looking at pulley and broken rope (arrow). Coast Guard boats started a search for the bodies."

brn: .b10255412

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