Having worked in the union construction industry in NYC I can tell you these things are a result of a numberof factors. Insuffcient or shoddy inspection, (in some rare cases throguh pay-offs), improper installion and or safety proceedures and untrained or poorly trained operators.
Crappy Chinese steel?
Because they are unbelievably heavy, and tall, with an insufficient ratio of base area to height?
That is fricking awesome. Would love to walk out that crane like that.
This guy would NEVER have succeeded in building the Pyramids.
Good thing the hard hats on that tower are wearing people. That way, the people will break their fall.
People forget that all the energy it took to bring something up is stored in it.
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Anybody who would work up on one of those things is NUTS! In fact, all those steel workers who work up on those skyscrapers are NUTS too!
When people choose to live like ants, getting stomped on is part of the experinece?
***Of course, the other side of the coin is that taking down a crane proves time-consuming and costly, so operators don’t want to do so unless there is clear and present danger***
I can tell you that this comment is total bs. It’s not the operators that don’t want to take the cranes down, it’s the corporate jerks in the office that don’t want to. They’re constantly trying to rush them so they can get a progress payment. 2 yrs ago they had an accident where one crane pulled another over and then they both crashed because the boss insisted on them making this tandem lift even though one of the cranes was malfunctioning, but he was in a hurry to get that progress payment.
My husband works for a ship yard and operates telescopic boom cranes and crawler cranes. They try to make these operators work in unsafe conditions all the time. They even pay companies to make sure cranes “pass” inspection that shouldn’t even be operating.