Word: accidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At the time of the accident, an official with the Harvard Planning Office said the events seemed to resemble a "caricature of bureaucracy."
The child was not critically injured--he was treated and released from a hospital the same day for a broken wrist, fractured skull, and head and facial injuries--and the University paid for all medical expenses. But the accident left Carpenter staff angry and spurred the University to reexamine its...
Meanwhile, the cogs of the Harvard bureaucracy were equally hesitant to turn. Carpenter Center officials who received Ritacco's notice in 1985 said the problem "did not lie with us" because structural maintenance problems were designated to other University agencies; staff said they forwarded the notice to Facilities Maintenance at...
The FAS official whom Ritacco had written, Eugene J. Arcand, director of facility finances, said he did not recall the letter or the details of the situation. No action was taken by the University until the accident.
He said he instructed building superintendents after the accident to "by all means follow procedure, but be alert beyond that."