# Philadelphia building collapses **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215 "2013-06-05T16:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215/41 "2013-07-29T20:46:14Z")
Anybody been following this story? For example I notice: "Attorneys from the Philadelphia firm Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky stated that the newly released video of the collapse, caught by cameras mounted inside a passing city bus, proves that the excavator operator who has been the only person criminally charged in the case was not the sole individual responsible for the incident. “Using the video to correlate a photo from across Market Street, it can be proven that the photo was taken 10 seconds after the collapse and it is clear that the excavator arm is pointed away from the wall that collapsed,” the statement reads. “This means it is highly unlikely that the excavator operator did strike the wall that collapsed.”" [http://pennrecord.com/news/10822-firm-representing-phila-building-collapse-victims-comments-on-video-release-discrepancy-over-asbestos-at-site](http://pennrecord.com/news/10822-firm-representing-phila-building-collapse-victims-comments-on-video-release-discrepancy-over-asbestos-at-site) The excavator operator has been charged with multiple counts of manslaughter. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215/42 "2015-07-21T17:28:32Z")
> [@](#): > > A heavy equipment operator charged in a building collapse that killed six people and injured 12 during a demolition project in downtown Philadelphia pleaded guilty Tuesday to manslaughter and other charges. > > Prosecutors have agreed to recommend no more than 10 to 20 years when 44-year-old Sean Benschop is sentenced in October. Authorities say Benschop had previously been warned not to use machinery to demolish an unsupported brick wall. [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/equipment-operator-pleads-building-collapse-deaths-32590313](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/equipment-operator-pleads-building-collapse-deaths-32590313) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Nylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Mr.Nylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Nylock)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215/43 "2015-07-21T21:22:14Z")
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**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215/44 "2015-07-21T21:49:11Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > [http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/equipment-operator-pleads-building-collapse-deaths-32590313](http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/equipment-operator-pleads-building-collapse-deaths-32590313) > [@Philly.com](#): > > A guilty plea by Benschop could be a logical after May’s hearing where Davis tried unsuccessful to prevent prosecutors from using post-collapse blood tests that showed Benschop had a chemical component of marijuana and traces of a prescription narcotic in his blood. That evidence could make it likely a trial jury would find him guilty of the six counts of third-degree murder he faces. Under Pennsylvania law, prosecutors may seek a sentence of life in prison without parole for anyone convicted of more than one count of third-degree murder. … ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215/45 "2016-01-08T20:11:18Z")
> [@](#): > > After insisting the collapse that killed six and injured 13 was an accident and begging for leniency, demolition contractor Griffin Campbell was sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison in the 2013 Salvation Army thrift store catastrophe… > > Bronson also sentenced Sean Benschop, 44, the excavator operator Campbell hired for the Hoagie City demolition, to 7-1/2 to 15 years in prison. > **[Prison for pair convicted in Center City collapse deaths](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/news/20160109_Sentencing_day_in_Center_City_collapse_deaths.html)** > > For 28 minutes on Friday, demolition contractor Griffin Campbell tried to convince a city judge that the Center City collapse that killed six people and injured 13 was an accident, that he really was sorry, and that he deserved a "fair chance . . .... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/philadelphia-building-collapses/660215.md?page=2)