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Their report stated that the crane's 190-meter (620 ft) long boom was not sufficiently secured by its operators so as to withstand the high winds present on the day of the collapse and that use of that crane in those 80–105 kilometres per hour (50–65 mph) winds was well outside the manufacturer's recommended operating parameters.
The Qinghe Special Steel Corporation, established in 1987, [2] had originally been a state-owned enterprise and had been restructured into a private business. [1] According to the State Administration of Work Safety, the plant had about 300 employees at the time of the accident, although the Xinhua News Agency gave the employment figure as 650. [2]
[3] [4] A safety inspector was filming construction of the stadium on that day and captured the collapse on video as it occurred. Wind speeds were between 20 and 21 miles per hour (32 and 34 km/h), with gusts of up to 26 to 27 miles per hour (42 to 43 km/h), at the time of the collapse. [ 4 ]
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