downtown Houston yesterday. Wonder what the truck driver had been drinking.
Crane Falls Over, Crushes Pickup Truck
POSTED: 1:09 pm CDT May 4, 2007
HOUSTON — A crane at a downtown Houston construction site fell over Thursday, crushing part of a pickup truck, KPRC Local 2 reported. The crane fell across San Jacinto Street between Polk and Dallas streets at about 11:45 a.m. The bed of a pickup truck driving down San Jacinto Street was crushed. The driver said he did not know what happened until he heard people screaming. He got out of the truck and was treated for minor injuries at the scene.
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Another vehicle was also damaged and its occupants were not injured. San Jacinto Street was closed to traffic while the wreckage was cleaned up. The cause of the incident is under investigation.
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Fast Edddie,
Chances are this week an average of three cranes tipped over and maybe one person was killed or injured..
Based on the monthly reports I get....
My point was ... the driver didn't know his truck had been crushed until he got out an looked. "Put your creed in your deed." Emerson
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
i saw the aftermath of a "parted line" on the main hoist of a crane setting column cages for an overpass on the san francisco airport project in the late 90's
when the line parted under load the boom went over backwards fast. one apprentice ironworker was badly injured.
the most amazing thing was the vehicles parked behind the crane. one was demolished, it took a tremendous amount of energy to do that damage.
another was barely grazed, only the front bumper was damaged with downward force, and the airbag was deployed. that just blew me away the thing didn't have a scratch except for the bumper and the airbag went off.
http://www.craneaccidents.com/stats.htmwhodda thunk!???
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Denver area just finished up a major highway project. During the several years it was under construction2 or 3 cranes "fell over". Something about not using the outrigger feet on the crane. I thought you had to pass a test or some such thing to operate these mechanical wonders. Love the help they provide, just sometimes the operators scare the bejesus outta me!
We had one of those BIG cranes fall over here in Bellevue WA last year, I managed to get a few pictures. The crane operator was in his cage and rode all the way down, not hurt badly. There was one fatality, a guy in the condo across the street got hit when the crane crashed into his condo.
The building adjacent to the site is ristill boarded up where it got scraped by the crane as it came down. They attriibuted the fall to lack of proper support at the base, instead of being mounted to a concrete base, apparently it was on steel I-beams or some such arrangement.
The pics below comprise something of a panorama from left to right. Crane fell from the left, to the right where it took out the top of the condo across the street.
That site I linked has a photo gallery with several on display and thousands more waiting for the ambitious...One was captioned " Look out for those septic tanks"A lot of them seemed to be broken rigging from overload conditions.
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attriibuted the fall to lack of proper support at the base
Have read that the root cause was water getting into the hollow tube structural elements and cracking one or 2 of those elements near the base. The failure occured at the time of one of the very few hard freezes in Bellevue.
the operator who rode that down may have not been hurt to badly, but i'm thinking he definitely needed a change of underwear.
i'm puckered just lookin at the pictures.