Crane Accident 250 ton

[schultzie]

hahaha yea 100mm, :( even still

wonder if he was meant to be setup another meter across to get in to the thicker part of the slab...

[The Yeti]

Originally Posted by The news report

Toppled crane stays unmoved until Monday

A $4 million crane that toppled onto a building at a Sydney construction

site will remain in place for the next few days until it can be safely

salvaged.

The large crane was on Friday installing pre-fabricated walls at the

building site on Gladstone St, Castle Hill, when it fell.

The 250-tonne crane tipped during the operation, crashing through the wall

and the first floor of the building.

The 42-year-old crane operator suffered minor bruising to his leg in the

crash, but no one else was injured.

Five nearby businesses had to close, with the crane's jib overhanging the

adjacent industrial complex.

The crane was badly damaged and any salvage operation was not expected to

begin until Monday, police said.

WorkCover are investigating the accident

I drove arround there thismorning and its a freaky sight

And hows this for an email explaining possible delay in delivery form one of our suppliers

Originally Posted by Our Supplier

URGENT- CUSTOMERS PLEASE NOTE


Please note we are having some service disruption to deliveries at the moment due to circumstances beyond our control.

A crane has fallen on the building next door to us and as a result our building is in some danger. Since we had to evacuate immediately on Friday, some orders in progress had to be left. Currently with no access to our building we still do not have access to faxes which may have been sent since Friday at 10.30am.

We now have redirected phones, fax and emails to our showroom, but please note we are operating with some limitations.

Orders are currently being sent from our showroom where stock allows.

If you have something outstanding or something urgent, we kindly ask you to follow up with an email to sales@oursupplier.com.au and we will respond as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience. We hope to be back to normal shortly.


Yours faithfully

[Walkinshaw]

I'd say the deck is thicker than 100mm. Its Post tensioned (top pocket live ends) and it looks like KF70 bondek, so probably 200mm thick.

[ea90gl]

Pretty bad, reminds me of a video I saw on a docu once where during a packed wedding reception the floor caved in (held in a multi story complex) and alot of people went down with it, many killed and injured. As mentioned before lucky this happened before it was fully occupied

EDIT just found it on youtube

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vt__AaFtmIk

gives me chills down my spine...

[Yellow_Festiva]

When I was reading the paper I looked at that pic and thought to myself... Hmmm where have I seen that already???

[blueoval]

Originally Posted by ea90gl

Pretty bad, reminds me of a video I saw on a docu once where during a packed wedding reception the floor caved in (held in a multi story complex) and alot of people went down with it, many killed and injured. As mentioned before lucky this happened before it was fully occupied

EDIT just found it on youtube

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vt__AaFtmIk

gives me chills down my spine...

Thats one frightening video :

[schultzie]

my boss had the pics today at work... for some reason i dont think he liked me knowing more about it then he did :P

any more news regarding this?

[Fordman1]

Risk assesment done ? Probably not.

Process Safety Review done ? I bet not.

[schultzie]

it will be a good read to see that work cover paper and results from the accident ....

[NC1183]

Yeah, to bad we won't get to see it.

[schultzie]

i will... this sort of enquirey will take a year of 2 to be finalised

[cool65]

the word is it will be into a 7 figure sum to repair that couple of weeks old crane

[X000BOSS]

i bet that wasnt a nice thing to experience. cant help thinking though, if i was the crane driver and i said "no, i think its not safe, wont be doing the job". what do i do when i have my boss saying that the engineer has ok'd it with a written report, its costing him $10000's per hour to be there. so just do it. well there is a written report from a structural engineer that knows more about these things than i do, do i do it or not. i reckon i would of done the job.
p.s i know very little about cranes or engineering. just a hypothetical thought.

This is all the crane driver He must inspect the site and if he thinks the job
unsafe DON'T DO IT. the crane driver has the last say. Not the Engineer, Not the rigger, Not the Boss "The Driver"

[schultzie]

100% correct... he has the last say... but as it goes... if you have the paperwork and marked where to setup and you are told do it then well it the enginerrs fault over the crane driver

[Peter B - CV8]

I know a couple of guys that were working at this site. They are saying that the temporary bracing supports under the slab was not positioned correctly - thus allowing the truck's support ram to punch through the slab.

[Pup_87]

i work up the rd from where this happened. they were pulling the boom out yesterday. its sitting on a semi just outside the gates to site.

[warbo]

All said and done at the end of the day regardless of who is at fault at least everyone on that site went home to their families after that incident. Could have been alot worse.

[svo347]

I cant see from the pic but im surprised there was not wood blocking pig sty'd under the outriggers to spread the load over a greater surface area. I only have a C6 lic (up to 60T) but everytime my rigger sets me up, we always use packing regardless of what ever surface i was on. Possibly wouldnt have made much of a difference but who knows..