Excavation Collapse

Credit: 3 PDH Hours
Course Fee: $45.00
25 pages

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Course Summary:

On August 22, 2006, around 11:00 a.m., a more than 40 foot high, steep excavated slope suddenly collapsed. The collapsed earth deposits buried a nearby excavator and killed the operator inside the cab. The excavator was cleaning the base of the slope when the incident occurred.

Learning Objective:

By the end of this course the student will learn the cause and origin of this slope collapse.

Course Content

Course Author: Franco F. Davati, P.E.

Certificate of completion of the course

This course comes with a multiple-choice quiz. You can view the quiz and take the quiz if you are logged in your account. You can take the quiz for this online PDH course as many times until passed. The passing grade is 70% and above. After you pass the quiz simply follow the page, to pay for the course and print your certificate instantly. A copy of the certificate and receipt for this course will always be in your account.

This online PDH course can also be used as a continuing education course for the following.

Architects

Geologists

PE Civil Engineers

PE Structural Engineers

PE Environmental Engineers

CE Contractors

Safety and Failure Analysis

Landscape Architects

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