Posted on 05/30/2008 5:44:39 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
MyFoxNY.com -- One person was killed in a crane collapse at a construction site at 354 91st Street near 1st. Avenue in Manhattan.
The Associated Press reports that people have been pulled from the debris.
Fox 5 Assignment Editor Jonathan Cohen was a block away and heard a large rumbling sound.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxny.com ...
Prayers for all involved!
Same company owned both cranes.
Prayers for the injured, their families, as well as the first responders...
“Same company owned both cranes.”
Not good. Do we know what kind of cranes these are? What company makes them?
Both cranes were owned by a company called New York Crane.
The live shots are unreal- the firefighters are on top of the building looking for people..
How many crane companies operate in NYC? gotta be a fairly small number.
A crane collapse March 15 that killed seven people followed complaints from residents about the site and led to the resignation of New York City Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster. A buildings inspector was charged with falsifying a record to show he visited the Manhattan construction site.
After that collapse, at 303 East 51st St., city inspectors said they were examining about 220 mobile cranes in the five boroughs. The inspectors shut down more than a quarter of them.
Thanks. Just googled this from the last crane accident:
“Mayor Bloomberg identified the site’s principal developer as James P. Kennelly, a former firefighter, and the construction company as RCG, an apparent acronym for Reliance Construction Group. He said the crane owner was the New York Crane & Equipment Corporation. The manufacturer, he said, was an Australian company known as Favco, which makes a tower crane with an eight-ton lifting capacity.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/nyregion/16collapse.html?pagewanted=2
It would be interesting to do a little research on where this Favco company gets their steel.
http://www.favcousa.com/main.html
Favelle Favco Cranes started out as an Australian company over three decades ago. Since then, it has risen to unprecedented heights in major construction projects worldwide by manufacturing and providing superior heavy-duty cranes for a wide variety of the most demanding of tasks.
Now, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Muhibbah Engineering (M) Bhd, a major publicly-listed engineering and construction giant, Favelle Favco Cranes intends to further strengthen its leading position, locally and globally.
With offices and manufacturing facilities in Malaysia, Australia, Denmark, USA and Singapore, Favelle Favco has expanded its design, manufacturing, assembling and servicing skills to cover every aspect and facet of the business, its clientele span the globe from USA and Canada to South America and Europe, to the Middle and Far East to other parts of Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Favelle Favco Cranes owns Kroll Cranes A/S of Denmark, reputed for having the world’s biggest Tower Cranes, all electric-driven with a 10,000-metric ton capacity and able to carry 100 tons at 100 meters as well as luffing and hammerhead cranes.
The momentum of growth continues...
Favelle Favco Cranes USA announces three new crawler cranes for which patents are pending.
All three models utilize complete Caterpillar Hydraulic Excavator Power modules and custom designed Caterpillar Industrial Products, Inc. variable gauge undercarriage systems. The three models, to make their premeir showing at CONEXPO-CON/AGG ‘99 in Las Vegas, NV., include 28 and 38 U.S. ton models with hydraulic telescopic booms and a 50 metric ton lattice boom model.
Thanks for the info TA. Sounds like the thinking is that these cranes are not being erected correctly.
I just don’t trust Chinese steel and am a little curious about the steel in those cranes.
This is happening with way too great regularity. Is it just individual flukes or are we seeing a pattern here caused by some structural deficiency in how the cranes are being made. Man, I’ll tell you one thing; I’m steering clear of any and all crane sites for the rest of my lifetime. It’s like walking under a ladder. Bad karma.
Thanks for the info SE! Lots to work with there.
David Lee Miller reporting the scene is incredibly chaotic- never seen as many NYPD cars since 9/11..
Me too!!
Steel is actually a complex thing to make and must be tested for strength at every phase of the process. I don’t know a whole lot about it, but my husband’s family comes from a long line of American Steel manufacturers no longer in business because of the liberal policies in this country. Hate to get political at this time, but the truth is the truth. More and more companies are getting their steel overseas where the standards may not be up to par.
They apparently make their own steel:
http://www.muhibbah.com/sub-steel.php
Officials need to look at this company closely!!
After the recent earthquake in China, scavengers were seen removing bent and twisted rebar to straighten and reuse.
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