Crane collapses can cause serious injuries and fatalities to construction workers and civilians. That’s why it’s so incredibly important to not only pay attention to the weather, especially high winds, as well as the total load that you’re able to lift. If either of those two things are ignored, disaster can strike.
Many learned a valuable lesson about weight distribution after they watched this video of a crane flipping into a ditch while trying to lower a bulldozer into a trench, but now there’s yet another example of a crane flipping from too large of a load. In the videos below, you’ll see a wheeled crane attempt to lift the tank of a water tower off of the base and onto the ground, but it only makes it a short distance before the boom begins to buckle and the crane flips on its head. If you look closely in the second video, you can actually see a worker trying to hold the crane down from flipping by jumping on one of the crane’s outriggers…not smart. It has not been determined if there were any injuries caused by the collapse and we hope the operator is OK.
In case you would like to watch how to successfully demolish a water tower, you can check out this video of a Plano, TX water tower being taken down using the “tipping method.”
Video below by Omar 55-09:
Video below by Titulares Guatevision:
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On Tuesday morning, February 23, the Syracuse Fire Department responded to a call about a collapsed crane on a construction site near the university. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.