The balanced cantilever method stands out among the most commonly used construction methods for box girder bridges.In this method, the superstructure is built progressively and quasi-symmetrically with respect to the pier.Form travelers that are supported on a predecessor segment allow pouring the following one.The accidental fall of the form traveler is a potential risk during construction; thus, some design guidelines recommend the use of a dynamic amplification factor (DAF) of 2.0 to account for the dynamic effects during the event.The use of a static-analysis is performed along with the use of the DAF.The validity of this approach was investigated in this study by performing dynamic analysis on the girder flexural rigidity, on the construction stage at which the accident occurs and on the breakage time and function that simulate the accidental event.The larger values of DAF occurred in relatively flexible superstructures, and the critical construction stages were those before the closure pour at mid-span.Moreover, the recommendation in the design guidelines was found inadequate as some of the analyzed cases had DAFs equal to 3.0.This demonstrates that the use pseudo-static analysis method is not the correct approach for these accidental situations.