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Breaking: Fatal New York City Crane Collapse: Manhattan 91st Steet & 1st Avenue

May 30th, 2008 by Chris (Admin) · No Comments


Looks like the damage is much more extensive than the last collapse.

There is extensive damage to the apartments across the street as well as the construction site.

More to follow.

Updates:

Definitely some injuries, people being pulled out of wreckage.

333 E. 91st St (the building under construction), Azure condominiums, planned 34 stories, 20-25 up now

Crane fell 20 to 25 ft.

9:05: 1 dead, 2 critical, 2 unknown injuries

9:10 The crane operator survived.

9:12 The crane was stationary and there was no load on the crane at the time.

9:14 There were two crane operators - one in the cab and one on the ground - the one in the cab is reportedly the one who died

9:29 Firefighters are picking through the rubble of the damaged apartment across the street - looks extremely laborious and dangerous.

9:31 They seem to be pulling someone out from under the crane wreckage at street level.

9:37 Construction worker: The turntable snapped, the crane operator was recently married. The worker did not want to be on camera but says there was a great deal of safety inspectors on the scene during the ‘jumping’ of the crane, which I think means when the crane is erected and affixed to the completed portion of the structure.

9:41 The crane is still attached to the building, it was just the top part of the crane - the turntable, control cabin, and arm, which collapsed.

9:45 There seems to be conflicting reports about whether there was load on the crane at the time - a crane expert says basically there had to have been in order for the crane to fail in this manner.

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