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[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 ]
Not the first crane accident for city, or equipment owner. 08:45, AP. The crane is owned by the New York Crane & Equipment Corp., one of the city’s most widely used crane providers, officials said.
[1] [4] The incident was captured in a dashcam video that was posted online the day after the accident, showing the perspective from westbound Mercer Street. [5] Seattle has undergone a construction boom since the Great Recession, tallying 60 cranes in early 2019—the most in one city in the United States at the time. [6]
An engineer for the Saudi Binladin Group said that the crane was erected in "an extremely professional way", and the accident was an "act of God". [38] The Liebherr Group responded to the collapse by sending local engineers and engineers from their crane manufacturing plant in Ehingen , Germany to help in the investigation of the collapse and ...
Construction continues on the new Harbor Bridge, slated for completion in 2025. Operators of a crane at the project site that malfunctioned and caught fire on April 22, 2023, have reached a ...
Photos and videos from the ground showed the crane, situated 45 stories above ground, on fire and then partially collapsing. Authorities said the crane operator was using it to lift 16 tonnes of ...
The floating barge-crane, originally named Marine Boss, was built for Murphy Pacific Marine.The barge was assembled by Zidell Explorations from scrapped ship steel in Oregon [2] in 1966 and fitted in San Francisco with a heavy 500-ton revolving crane made by Clyde Iron Works [3] to perform the heavy girder and deck-section lifts for construction of the 1967 San Mateo-Hayward Bridge.
A construction accident involving a crane and a travel lift south of Sunrise Boulevard closed southbound Interstate 95 since around 10:50 a.m Monday.