Alright guys, enough is enough. This thread was for talk about Yankee Stadium and the contract.

I am pretty sure this is my last post. This forum has turned into something that it shouldn't be. When someone "claims" someone died, that is very serious and I don't take it likely. I am not going into detail and go back and forth with someone I don't even know. I will state this for the last time, A crane did not tip over on a barge during the demo of the Cooper River Bridges. It's been real ,,,,,,,,,,,,argue among yourselves!!!!!!!!!!!
Be safe,
DemoBoss

I am just responding to the statement about checking my facts and that certain things didn't happen.

I have nothing against Testa, what I have a problem with is someone questioning or implying that I was lying, it would have ended there. Instead he said it didn't so I had to provide a little proof of who was telling the truth and who wasn't.

If I were so inclined crane incidents at a certain shipyard and the FBI would have been included in the above.

As far as glass houses, our company spends countless hours and money on safety training, bonuses, etc trying to keep us from having OSHA incidents. Just this year we have been on 4-VPP OSHA sites. The only way that is possible is to not have 1 single OSHA violation in the last 5 years. I am also not out there doing promotion telling everyone how big and bad we are, touting videos, etc.

And yes Demco has Yankee stadium. As I said before there was no-way that a boston contractor was going to have any part in the House that Ruth Built.

According to this OSHA log there was a pretty big crane accident

Inspection: 309052272 - J. Cashman, Inc./Testa Corp-Joint Venture

Inspection Information - Office: South Carolina Priv

Nr: 309052272 Report ID:0454510 Open Date: 08/24/2005

J. Cashman, Inc./Testa Corp-Joint Venture
Hwy 17 (Pearman Bridge)
Charleston, SC 29403 Union Status: NonUnion
SIC: 1622/Bridge, Tunnel, and Elevated Highway Construction
NAICS: 237310/ Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction
Mailing: 222 Huger Street, Charleston, SC 29403

Inspection Type: Accident
Scope: Partial Advanced Notice: N
Ownership: Private
Safety/Health: Safety Close Conference: 10/03/2005
Planning Guide: Safety-Construction Close Case: 01/13/2006

Optional Information: Type ID Value
N 10 IMMLANG-N

Related Activity: Type ID Safety Health
Accident 100376102

Violation Summary
Serious Willful Repeat Other Unclass Total
Initial Violations 8

1

9

Current Violations 2

1

3

Initial Penalty 10550

10550

Current Penalty 1550

1550

FTA Amount

Violation Items
# ID Type Standard Issuance Abate Curr$ Init$ Fta$ Contest LastEvent
Deleted 1. 01001 Serious 19260021 B02 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $2500 $2500 $0 I - Informal Settlement
Deleted 2. 01002 Serious 19260501 A02 10/12/2005 10/17/2005 $3000 $3000 $0 I - Informal Settlement
Deleted 3. 01003 Serious 19260501 B01 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $875 $875 $0 I - Informal Settlement
Deleted 4. 01004 Serious 19260502 D16 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $875 $875 $0 I - Informal Settlement
Deleted 5. 01005 Serious 19260503 A01 10/12/2005 11/14/2005 $875 $875 $0 I - Informal Settlement
Deleted 6. 01006 Serious 19260503 A02 10/12/2005 11/14/2005 $875 $875 $0 I - Informal Settlement
7. 01007A Serious 19260021 B02 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $1200 $1200 $0 I - Informal Settlement
8. 01007B Serious 19260501 A02 10/12/2005 10/17/2005 $0 $0 $0 I - Informal Settlement
9. 01008A Serious 19260501 B01 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $350 $350 $0 I - Informal Settlement
10. 01008B Serious 19260502 D16 10/12/2005 10/18/2005 $0 $0 $0 I - Informal Settlement
11. 01008C Serious 19260503 A01 10/12/2005 11/14/2005 $0 $0 $0 I - Informal Settlement
12. 01008D Serious 19260503 A02 10/12/2005 11/14/2005 $0 $0 $0 I - Informal Settlement
13. 02001 Other 19260503 B01 10/12/2005 11/14/2005 $0 $0 $0 I - Informal Settlement

Engineer, good answer, I am a superitendant with Testa Corp and you have only hit the tip of the IceBurg.I have know idea who Connie is, and with her attitude don't really care. I am writing about Yankee Stadium.
I read todays New York Daily News March24. An article stated why the contract and permits have not yet been finalized, A spokes person for the City office of Capital Project Development stated, "Contractor solicitation cannot begin too far in advance of an estimated work start date because contractors don't hold prices indefinitely and you run the risk of having to rebid the contract". He further stated,"the process began,"well before the team moved out".
Having read this it tells me, the bids are still in review.

Connie28 who told you testa got run out of boston you have no clue what your talkin about, work dried up and to stay as big as they are they had to look else where.. The jobs in NYC are peanuts compared to the 60 million dollar bridge demo in Charleston SC and the Big Dig... Unbuilding (demolition) of the Grace and Pearman Bridges in Charleston (the old Cooper River Bridges) check out that link bridge in SC

Yea, If you get run out of Boston , why not try NYC? Wait til the NYC guys get a piece of Boston. Will not be long.

I can confirm that Spiritas has bonding problems because when they were the low bidder at Shea they tried to do a joint venture with us to provide the bond.

The only problem we had is that if we were bonding and doing 1/2 the work we wanted fair compensation and they wanted a 50/50 deal.

Also Mr Spirtas didn't want to personally put anything on the line which was a requirement from our bonding company. They were involved with AT Milestone Environmental which does interior demolition and abatement in the tri-state area. They did a $760,000 abatement for us in GA but basically subbed the entire project to a MBE.