S.F. Bay Bridge Closed Following Repair Failure

San Francisco’s Bay Bridge to Oakland, Calif., is closed “indefinitely” following failure of repair work done that was done on Labor Day weekend, news services reported Wednesday.

The bridge, which carries about 26,000 vehicles a day, is closed “until further notice,” the California Department of Transportation, or Caltrans, said in a statement, the Associated Press reported.

Several pieces of an emergency cantilever section put into the bridge last month crashed in the westbound lanes of the bridge’s eastern span late Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. No one was seriously injured.

The area of the bridge where the pieces broke off was where crews had found a critical flaw on a steel structural beam, called an eyebar, helping to hold up the eastern span, the paper reported on its Web site.