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Matla Power Station Smokestack

Kriel South Africa

Status:
destroyed
Construction Dates
  Began1982
  Finished1982
  Destroyed1982
Building Uses
 - industrial
Structural Types
 - chimney

 Heights ValueSource / Comments 
Roof906 ftUnconfirmed
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Description
After an interior portion of this 906-foot concrete stack collapsed during construction (killing 4 workers), blasting specialists were rushed to the scene to fell the remainder of the structure. To the blaster’s surprise, the concrete was so inferior that the massive stack ‘telescoped’ straight down instead of laying out into a prepared trench as anticipated.


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