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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.
Accident [ edit ] On July 14, 1999, at approximately 5:12 pm, the Big Blue collapsed during the construction of the Miller Park (now American Family Field) baseball stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin , with a load of over 450 tonnes (440 long tons; 500 short tons) on the hook.
Weeks 533, a large 500-short-ton (454 t) rotating barge-crane has been used for several notable heavy lifts, including moving the Concorde and Enterprise onto the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and lifting the downed hull of US Airways Flight 1549 from the Hudson River. [3] [4] On January 3, 2023, Weeks Marine was acquired by Kiewit ...
The accident injured the wife of a visiting baseball player when debris from an 18,000-pound concrete bucket smashed into the ground below as part of the crane caught fire.
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.
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.
Work on the crane's removal was halted for two months while local and federal officials investigated the accident, but the work later resumed and was completed in early 2009. [5] As a result of their investigation, on January 13, 2009 the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration imposed fines totalling $68,000. [ 6 ]
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