Hate to be the foreman on this job

[mattman]

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Incident: Friday Morning 26/09/08 - Castle Hill/Sydney
# 9 Day Old 250t Leibherr Crane (never used before)
# $4mill price tag
# Failure of back propping beneath the 200mm thick concrete deck
# Crane support outrigger punches through slab causing crane to lose balance and collapse across the site and onto adjoining property

# Crane balanced in the air for approx 1 hour before entire rig & boom collapse completely across site
and rigs falls through to thebasement level

[mattman]

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[mattman]

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[mattman]

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[mattman]

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[Tempest]

DOH!!

[mattman]

http://www.streetfighters.com.au/forum/upload/62219743087143.jpg

[JackTar]

Unlucky

[flyingfatman]

that is veryy unlucky but
humiliation

[wackyrider]

That is bad mate.

Speechless...

[Weaselman]

ohhhhh workcover is gonna have a field day

[EFE 1230]

This was on another forum I visit, posted by the crane's owner (yes really!)the site engineer actually signed off (all correct paperwork)on the position of the crane and the job it was doing!!!!

[Jockney Rebel]

no wonder u lot need civils of my brothers calibre ...he he worth every penny ...this is a very simple thing to aviod evry peice of plant has its ground force footprint in its specs ..especially cranes and excavs so all he had to to do was work out how much the slab could hold ..anyway if wouldve been worse if hed strted lifting summat

[Bear]

So who will foot the insurance/repair bill out of this?

[Jockney Rebel]

main contractor probably public liability

[Azrael]

Assumption truly is the mother of all fuckups...

[Azrael]

Having said that,thats gotta be an easy mistake to make eh, i mean when you go onto sites to work you assume they know what they are doing yeh?

[336LJ]

holy fuck thats insane. lucky no one was under it, bet the driver shat his pants.

[pappas]

Similar thing happened at a mates work. Crane toppled over sideways through a 300mm thick slab.

It's more common than you think, these things tip over alot!

Oh and the engineer that signed it off will be paying for it, well his insurance anyway.

[Guile]

i heard they propped the slab directly below the crane but had no propping on subsequent slabs below,

not 100% sure if that was the case but sounds possible

[Merlyn]

well i guess when you see a crane fall through the floor, we know its not gonna last long... they dont build things like they used to... i bet the rat wheel cranes never toppled, just the people fell out of them.