Last Wednesday, they had a lucky escape at the school, when a 74-ton crane toppled over in the playground. It narrowly missed the school, and could easily have wrecked a neighbour's house. No-one hurt in the accident, school and house were empty at the time. The only damage was to a crushed storage shed, a broken tree, and a small crater in the playground - although the driver was somewhat startled.
I'll post some updates here of the progress to sort out the mess. Word is they will bring in two extra-large cranes, and will have to tear down a hedge, more trees and the adventure playground - as well as isolate the power cables for the operations.
Category: Personal
Edited on 14th Sept to move pictures to new location
y dindt they put the stands out thats y it tipped over
Posted by josh on September 04, 2007 at 03:42 PM GMT #
Officially, we have to wait until the Health & Safety people have completed their investigation before I can comment, but I found this comment by a trade review: http://www.vertikal.net/en/stories.php?id=4520
"Vertikal Comment: It looks as though the operator had stowed his outriggers and was possibly rotating the superstrucure with full counterweight and retracted boom at maximum elevation when it went over backwards.
Why the operator did not leave the outriggers extended is anyones guess"
Posted by PaulW on September 04, 2007 at 07:22 PM GMT #