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The Department of Labor and Industries fined general contractor GLY Construction and Northwest Tower Crane Service, responsible for dismantling the crane $25,200 and $12,000 respectively. Morrow Equipment, which supplied the crane, was cited for a "willful" serious violation which "directly contributed to the collapse" and fined $70,000.
In May of 2008, a collapse of the company’s tower crane killed two workers on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The company and its owner, James Lomma, were acquitted of manslaughter and other ...
On March 15, 2008, a crane owned by New York Crane & Equipment collapsed during construction. Seven people were killed and 24 others were injured. [5] It was a luffing-jib tower crane manufactured by Favco that was 200 feet (61 m) tall at the time of the collapse.
The tower crane, owned by New York Crane and Equipment Corp., was hoisting concrete to the 36th story of a luxury high-rise when a fire broke out in the machine’s cab, officials said.
Kelowna crane collapse: Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada: Construction crane 5 dead [63] 2021 Font Nova residential development apartment collapse Peñíscola, Valencian Community, Spain: Residential building 2 dead [64] 2021 AdventHealth Orlando parking garage crane collapse Orlando, Florida, United States: Parking garage 1 injured [65] 2021 ...
A 180-foot construction crane boom plunged 45 stories to the Midtown Manhattan streets on Wednesday morning, injuring 12 — but not for lack of trying to prevent disaster by a worker on-site, a ...
The collapse occurred shortly after a fire broke out inside the engine of the crane, about 45 stories up, which was reported around 7:25 a.m., according to Joseph Pfeifer, deputy commissioner of ...
The Taiwan Transportation Safety Board concluded in June 2024 that the primary reasons for the collapse were a failure to ensure proper operation of a tower crane and a lack of clear measures for restricting or prohibiting construction on either side of Taichung Metro tracks. [13]