When CNN returned to the bridge construction site in January, three new giant supports had been embedded in the riverbed, with two more left to be finished.

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In Mumbai, three workers at a bridge-construction site at the city's airport were killed after a concrete block fell on them in February.

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Ritchie's 125 territory managers are information gatherers, too, expected to know every highway construction site, pipeline project and bridge going up in their area.

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