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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.
The Manitowoc Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer which produces cranes and previously produced commercial refrigeration and marine equipment. It was founded in 1902 and, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, markets, and supports mobile telescopic cranes, tower cranes, lattice-boom crawler cranes, and boom trucks under the Grove, Manitowoc, National Crane, Potain ...
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. [33]
The operator's cabin hosts a display showing the tower crane's position, movement and operating area. Where the tower crane’s operating area overlaps with other cranes or prohibited zones these are also displayed. The system alerts the operator when the crane is approaching a prohibited area or another crane. [9]
NYPD urges people to avoid area. Wednesday 26 July 2023 14:30, Rachel Sharp. The NYPD has urged the general public to avoid the area around the crane collapse. “ADVISORY: Due to a crane collapse ...
An aerial photo of the crane Chesapeake 1000, provided by the Westchester County Police, shot the day before the tugboat Specialist was raised to the surface of the Hudson River under the Tappan ...
The scaffolding on the Willow Island cooling tower was bolted to the structure it was being used to build. [4] A layer of concrete was poured; then, after the concrete forms were removed, the scaffolding was raised and bolted onto the new section. Cranes atop the scaffolding raised buckets of concrete.
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