Pile Driver -- Metro Construction Site, Washington, D.C. , 1977

Item — Box: 2, item: 17

Dates

1977

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the Special Collections Reading Room. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

A member of Carpenters’ Local #2311 (Pile drivers), 1976, is taken off the sheets on a Metro construction site in Washington, D.C. Sheet piling is used to build coffer dams in water situations. It is formed into a circle, then construction takes place inside the coffer from which the water and dirt have been removed. The worker helping to align the grooves of the sheet piles is called “the monkey,” and is paid more since the work is dangerous.