Construction crane collapses in New York, killing 2
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It was a crane snapping apart and collapsing onto a 23-story apartment building across the street from his work site. (article 9)
The incident echoed a similar one in Manhattan in March, in which seven people were killed, and after which a city building inspector was arrested on charges of lying about inspecting the crane. (article 9)
Just three weeks before his wedding day , Donald Leo, 30, died in the cab of the doomed Upper East Side crane because the usual morning operator was running late, his stunned colleagues told The Post. (article 10)
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 2)
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 5)
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 5)
The collapse happened despite stepped-up inspections and a shake-up in the city Buildings Department after the earlier accident, which killed seven people in March. (article 1)
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crane, Construction, collapse, accident, Alvarez |
Source articles
- NYC crane collapses into street, killing 2 workers (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/30/2008, 1021 words)
- Another fatal crane accident in New York (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 05/31/2008, 736 words)
- Chaos as crane collapses in NYC (BBC News, 05/30/2008, 491 words)
- Construction crane collapses in New York, killing 2 (dallasnews.com, 05/30/2008, 192 words)
- ABC News: Plunging Peril: How Safe Are Cranes? (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 338 words)
- ANOTHER CRANE COLLAPSE (NY Post, 06/01/2008, 339 words)
- ABC News: The Donald on Crane Dangers (ABCNews, 05/30/2008, 380 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > U.S. (FOX News, 05/31/2008, 10 words)
- N.Y. Crane Collapse Kills 2 and Injures 1 (Washington Post, 06/01/2008, 424 words)
- GROOM-TO-BE'S TERRIBLE FATE (NY Post, 05/31/2008, 273 words)
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