Sunday, October 23, 2011

Space Center sues Independence, contractors for cave-in - Kansas City Business Journal:

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, which owns and operates an underground limestone mine at601 S. U.S. Highwau 291 in Independence, filed a breach of contracy and negligence claim in federal court in the Westerhn District of Missouri against Independence forallowing , and -- all Missouri-base d companies -- to build a youth athletic complex over a portion of the underground warehouse, which Space Center alleges may have led to the caved-ibn ceiling. The lawsuit claims that on June 24, 2006, a ceilinb collapsed underneath where the complex wasbeing built, which causedf the sprinkler system to go off where was storinfg large quantities of flour. The estimated damagesd were morethan $1.2 million.
The collaps e allegedly occurred in an area whered LB Enterprises had dammeda creek, which created a small When the pond was filled, the companyu allegedly put too much fill over wherwe the ceiling collapsed, leading to the A city attorney for Independence wasn'tr immediately available for comment.

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