A Premonition Fulfilled, in a City That Lives With Cranes
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The towering cranes that build America's skyscrapers are often not properly inspected for wear, fatigue and other potentially dangerous structural problems, several construction safety experts said following a deadly accident in New York. (article 12)
Two construction workers died Friday when the huge cab of a 200-foot-high construction crane popped off its mast and plummeted onto a Manhattan street, sheering off part of an apartment building on the way down. (article 12)
It was the second time in nearly 11 weeks that a crane tumbled from high above a construction site in New York: On March 15 a crane - its tower, cab and boom - collapsed thunderously to earth, killing seven. (article 3)
Tower crane collapses, like the one that killed two people in New York City today, are a relatively infrequent yet inevitable consequence of high-rise construction, industry experts said. (article 7)
In today's accident, the crane operator and a construction worker were killed when the crane collapsed and hit a building across the street. (article 7)
Ten days later, the Buildings Department issued a new set of provisional regulations for crane jumps and said that as a precaution, its inspectors would be on hand every time a crane was put up, made taller or dismantled. (article 8)
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crane, Construction, turntable, City, Buildings |
Source articles
- Crane collapses in N.Y., kills 2 - (baltimoresun.com, 05/31/2008, 553 words)
- Crane Collapse Kills Two and Unsettles New Yorkers (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 959 words)
- Another fatal crane accident in New York (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/31/2008, 736 words)
- Crane Collapse, 2nd Since March, Kills 2 Workers in Manhattan (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 804 words)
- Deadly crane accident puts fresh scrutiny on industry (sfgate.com, 05/31/2008, 625 words)
- NYC crane collapses into street, killing 2 workers (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/30/2008, 1021 words)
- ABC News: Plunging Peril: How Safe Are Cranes? (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 338 words)
- City Revises Safety Rules on Cranes (nytimes.com, 05/29/2008, 473 words)
- CITY INSPECTORS CLEARED DEVICE JUST DAYS AGO (NY Post, 06/01/2008, 528 words)
- Investigators Look at Equipment, Not Crane’s Operators (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 749 words)
- Criminal Inquiry in Crane Collapse Looks for Damage (nytimes.com, 06/01/2008, 678 words)
- After crane collapse, experts call for more tests (sfgate.com, 05/31/2008, 684 words)
- Above the City, Juggling Patience, Precision and Danger (nytimes.com, 06/01/2008, 1083 words)
- ANOTHER CRUSHING CRANE CATASTROPHE (NY Post, 05/31/2008, 338 words)
- ABC News: The Donald on Crane Dangers (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 380 words)
- The Human Toll of a Building Binge (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 705 words)
- N.Y. Crane Collapse Kills 2 and Injures 1 (Washington Post, 05/31/2008, 424 words)
- ANOTHER CRANE COLLAPSE (NY Post, 05/31/2008, 339 words)
- Construction crane collapses in New York, killing 2 (dallasnews.com, 05/30/2008, 192 words)
- Crane Collapses Prompt Questions on the Mayor’s Oversight (nytimes.com, 06/01/2008, 1240 words)
- CRANE CRASH: FIX THE FLAWS (NY Post, 05/31/2008, 563 words)
- A Premonition Fulfilled, in a City That Lives With Cranes (nytimes.com, 05/31/2008, 669 words)
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