Not trained, missed bolt or bolts, too much weight, too much slack, too much reach, not stable enough, operator too tired.... Too much opportunity with a deadly weapon that reaches to much area.
I hate them and were in the construction and heavy equipment business. Won't do cranes though.
There are 101 reasons they fall, but all you need is one when it comes at you. My husband was missed by a foot when one feel next to him on a hospital job.
I drive quickly by them. My grandson asked "why" (I was on a newly extended freeway section)? I said they fall all the time, and I don't want to be there when it does. He argued "no they don't." The very next day it feel across two lanes of that freeway. The operator was trained and certified, but it was... "human error." Usually is.
i have never seen a crane used to help lay a derrick over before that drilling ompany is a bunch of retards that crane operator should have beat somones ass
One of the most horribly planned lifts I've seen. It doesnt appear that any of the equipment or rigging was suitable for the pick. I doubt there was any trained competant riggers a part of this lift. You would think that the crane opperator would have refused to lift it. It Appears no one is speaking english or any european language so the odds of anyone onsite having training is minimal. These videos are a testament that it should be law to serve an apprenticeship and pass qualification tests
dbenny1000 is right. The crane is merely a victim of the load suddenly falling due to the cables on top snapping. The real question here is, how that happened to begin with.
They were lowering a derrick from a drilling rig either sumthing happened that they had to use the crane by the monkey board or the crane was in the way and got hung up. Usually this procedure doesn't envolve a crane when lowering Derrick
The driver had luck that the boom broke and did not tip the whole thing over. The crane was to small for this job.If Chuck Norris had his hands on a second support cable to that tower everything would have been ok.
Shock loading will tip or structurally brake any crane, if you look at the video the support cable that was holding the tower at its current elevation broke making the tower drop down on the crane when the crane had nothing on the main head block fall.
What dont make cents is that why on earth was the crane there with no head height.. That crane shouldnt have been there, it is to small to handle what ever was intended.
The hydraulic crane was not even under load. Can't say it was too small, because it was just there to take some bending stress in the middle of the derrick...and obviously take some load. Looks like they were not coordinated to me.
having worked at several jobs where too small of a crane was used for the job, the real reason why too small of a crane gets used is because, its an expense to the job, and the project manager who gets paid off of the profit of the job will try and use the cheapest method to get things done in order to garner a bigger paycheck for himself. Oh the half assed, shoddy methods I have seen in the name of saving money, usually end up costing money when you have to go back and fix it.
NOOO QUE FALTA DE PLANEACION Y ESTUPIDEZ AL LA VEZ IRRESPONSABLES ESA OPERACION ERA PARA DOS GRUAS ESTO ES UNA CLARA FALTA DE ESXPERIENCIA E INEPTITUD
I build towers for a living and I wouldnt even consider picking up that in one pick. Espically with all that additional crap bolted to it. He should have set the base in one pick and then done the top section of the tower in another. Its a miracle that the tower didnt bend in half.
@dctr77 "Espically" I wouldn't try spelling anything, writing anything, or planning anything, if I were retarded! HAHAHHAA! You sure you don't build "flowers" for a living? HAHAHHHAAHAHA
In all fairness the crane in questions job was done before the other cable snapped as it did not have near the lift left to bring the tower to vertical in fact the next move was to unhook the yellow crane and continue the lift
to me it looks like there was a winch helping the crane and the crane was just there to help the winch and it sounded like cable snap with the slack on the crane line droped so quick snaping the boom off!
this wasnt the cranes fault and for once it wasnt the operators fault. Sounded like a cable let go that was lifting the rig. Nothing in the world you can do about that from the crane operators end.
@Sodiumreactor why do you think the crane was there? for good looks?100% operator fault he should have had a couple of ton on the hook supporting the load then if the guy cables broke it wouldnt have shock loaded the boom and snapped it like a twig
the crane wasnt even holding any load at all untill the lifting mechanism for the tower failed. it was supposed to just assist in the lift, more than likely only supposed to assist in the first 15 feet away from horizontal. look towards the top of the tower around .07 sec and look closely. you can see the cables attached to the top of the tower they were standing until the cables or whatever broke. anyway... if things were done properly there wouldnt be a youtube vid. hope nobody got hurt.
not a cheap crane.... looks like a Demag 150t truck crane... from what I can c the derrick might have snagged on something and caused the part off of the hoist cables..... the truck crane was just a tailing crane (probably for the rig block, those things r huge), and shock and side loaded something fierce.. poor lift planning in my opinion...
@telosfd the crane can lift his maximum only in 1 position,every inch that you make,up/down or left/right change the lifting limit!inside u have a computer that will tell u how much can u lift in your position!to understand the mistake just watch the rope!u sould always keep it in force!
@ACtheLegend Maybe the camera was on a tripod. Alternatively, maybe the camera operator was too far away in a building many blocks away. One can, after all, use zoom lens to zoom in to the scene of action.
ha ha ha.. head office...we need another derrick...ahh how about one that can raise on its own...ya ya safety this and safety that...how about just for a moment see the humor in these idiots calling head office and trying to talk there way out of it....the safety industry is like political correctness,and terrorism...it feeds on itself and there is no end to the madness in sight,most of it is just trumped up bullshit and takes away from the truth of the matter.truth is we need accountability.
I dont wish to get to heavy on this....excuse the pun!
The incident was preventable. I have 3 comments:
1-inadequate Lift Planning - the actual applied load tension as applied to the wires attached to the crown block of the Derrick was above the MBL of the wires. You can see clearly that the wires parted, there is a dust/rust cloud. 2-The Mobile Crane's purpose was only to take the initial weight - to assist 3-Mr mobile Crane Operator was not to blame whatsoever.
@ssgrfc123 i dont disagree with you on the first two but why isn't his fault after all as an opperator its your duty to check the eqiupment your using at least for your safety, also was there a doger there?
if i new my cranes could not do the job id tell them to go shov it as ive done in the past, after all its your life your playing with when using stuff like that.
ok every 1 is blaming the crane and operator but did anyone happen to see the cables snap 1st that were atached to the tower at the top? so yea all that weight has to go sumwhere snap a crane if it has to as well lol
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I just love how everyone becomes a professional when they watch a video like this! If only they knew how retarded their comments sound to Professional Operators! This accident obviously has nothing to do with either the crane or the operator!
The first mistake is the company had too small of a crane attached to the rig.second mistake the operator was attached too the rig.Pure and simple.This is what happens when companies try to cut corners.Safety is not an accident.
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@Kyosho1060 First, the crane is only there to take the belly out of the rig on the initial 0 to 30 degrees or so on the initial lift off the ground, not to maintain the weight of the entire rig. As for your second mistake suggestion...... they were doing it the "safe" way! Do you think it would have been wiser to have someone climb up the rig to disconnect it? Look what happened! Once you start an erection of a lattice type boom, jib or rig.... you dont stop until its up to a safe angle.
@mrryencoke I was a Heavy Equipment operator 22 years,Friction crane operator for 13 years.I do know what I'm talking about.So you can say all you want because you are entitled to your opinion.I call it as see.I would have never put myself or any worker in that position.
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@Kyosho1060. That tower was being erected by some unseen winch type arrangement off screen. you can see the steel ropes attached to the top of the tower, raking down to the left of screen.
The problem with this setup was that mr mobile crane had slack in his ropes. When the raked ropes failed, the yellow jib copped a massive shock load due to a lack of tension between the hook and upper sheave. The crane was obviously within radius. Operator error?
@Kyosho1060 i suggest you pause the video at 8 seconds, the strop between crane hook and tower is slack, then look at the top of the tower and left, you can clearly see a cable, keep watching that top point of the cable because at 10 seconds it breaks.
@Kyosho1060 Couldn't agree more. Been in cranes myself till a colleague managed to nearly cut off my foot with a load of iron (let's just push it a tad more). Let's say I was lucky because I just had my foot injured, there's those who lost their lives making these kind of gambles.
It is always the driver who is responsible. This one took way too much chance on his part.
@Kyosho1060 As a young safety professional I have to agree. Too small a crane for that pick. This is exactly what happens when companies try and cut corners to save money. Now that the tower is destroyed how much money did they save?
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@Kyosho1060 well i will tell you as a crane coordinator the mobile crane was not there to hold the structure the crane was there to make sure the connecting 6 metre basket was secure and did not move or damage the main structure as it can make the structure twist on the first 70 degrees of lifting it was slack because the risk was gone of twisting the rig hoisting the structure failed any crane operator should see this i wouldnt let a man on site who didnt
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@Kyosho1060 yes i for one would not risk the safety of my banksmen to unhook until the rig is safely in position its called two machines working in cunjunction with each other and i have done that many times so if i send a man up the mast to hook off and this happens thats a death on my hands any good operator would know this so you would risk a mans life to go up and hook off thats just plain stupid just shows the training that you have not received
@carsieplg You are a bigger MORON than I thought,I was not at this location and neither was you MORON,if that be the case in which the operator was keeping it from twisting,ok.but once the load was release from the crane,the operator should have disconnected by means of a bucket truck in which would have been the only safe way to do this proceedure.If you disagree with this,I would like to know where you recieve your training because you didn't finish it.
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@Kyosho1060 but even if you send a man up in a teleboom platform he is still going to be at risk as he will be under a crane connected to an unsafe load and well if you check with hse you will find this to be illegal and a site can be closed down and prosecuted so you are the moron and my training is citb and construction skills register that all construction operatives must do it or your not allowed on site and i think you will find citb among the worlds best training services on construction
@carsieplg You MORON! Now I know your getting this information and reading it from a web site.You are trying to knock me down and it's not going to happen.Have a great :) day.P.S. use common sense and stop reading from a book,don't get anyone killed.
@Kyosho1060 - Having used a similar crane myself, I do agree with your assessment. It is obvious that the guy cables attached to the top of the rig tower to help hoist it up snapped (the ones that go off screen to the left), and that small crane couldn't possibly hold up that heavy load by itself. It's really too bad so many construction workers hate OSHA because their rules evolved out of actual and needless accidents. Hopefully no one involved with this failed pick was injured.
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No one's fault?! It sure is. Respectfully, it's the ignorance of the people doing the lift failing to correctly gauge the weight of that lift and to appropriately string it up for this eventuality. Unless there's a catastrophic manufacturing defect in these failing cranes in You Tube videos, ALL of the failures are user's faults; the failure to correctly gauge the weight of the lifts being attempted. Pretty simple.
is the crane operator fault .....he should never atempt this pick no tension on the rig...ha ..wata idiot i bet his boss is not really happy.thats why we make lift plans. dont put it on your resume ether.lol
is the crane operator fault .....he should never atempt this pick no tension on the rig...ha ..wata idiot i bet his boss is not really happy.thats why we make lift plans.
the boom was top load off center at junction point. The reason for collapse was maxed out jib fluctuation due to overextended boom derrick positioning. Nothing more, nothing less.
Whenever you have two machines working to lift the same load, it can be a recipe for failure.
The crane was intended to help reduce the load on the cables and machinery pulling, but he was not helping. He must have helped get it off the ground, and then left his hoist line go slack as whatever was pulling on the cables took over.
He should have continued to help take some weight off, untill it was past 45 debrees.
Theres a cable tied to the tower thats holding it... it snapped. Then the rest fell.. you can see the cable barely at 0:10 it goes from the tower to the left of the screen... then you hear the pop and everything goes.
They probably had a winch of some sort pulling the top towards the left while the other lifted a bit.
both lmao first crane should have been bigger n the crane looks old to me n not well maintained lol and the boom needs to be higher basically needed a bigger crane lol
it looks like it fell on a cabble and this crane is to small to lift that thing then the cabble it fell on gave way there trying to lift it and just snapped this small crane like a tooth pick after when the cabble broke that was taking most of the waight
no cofee-brake!
greenseal 2 days ago
Not trained, missed bolt or bolts, too much weight, too much slack, too much reach, not stable enough, operator too tired.... Too much opportunity with a deadly weapon that reaches to much area.
I hate them and were in the construction and heavy equipment business. Won't do cranes though.
applepiebetty 3 days ago
There are 101 reasons they fall, but all you need is one when it comes at you. My husband was missed by a foot when one feel next to him on a hospital job.
I drive quickly by them. My grandson asked "why" (I was on a newly extended freeway section)? I said they fall all the time, and I don't want to be there when it does. He argued "no they don't." The very next day it feel across two lanes of that freeway. The operator was trained and certified, but it was... "human error." Usually is.
applepiebetty 3 days ago
try suckin that in???
gndzroirnwkr 4 days ago
are you guys lets take coffee and regroup...
fattony123082 5 days ago
i have never seen a crane used to help lay a derrick over before that drilling ompany is a bunch of retards that crane operator should have beat somones ass
jdcatskinner 2 weeks ago
One of the most horribly planned lifts I've seen. It doesnt appear that any of the equipment or rigging was suitable for the pick. I doubt there was any trained competant riggers a part of this lift. You would think that the crane opperator would have refused to lift it. It Appears no one is speaking english or any european language so the odds of anyone onsite having training is minimal. These videos are a testament that it should be law to serve an apprenticeship and pass qualification tests
1r0nw0rk3r 2 months ago
Dummies
SVTintro 2 months ago
Pay peanuts......hire monkeys
SVTintro 2 months ago
OVERLOAD
skymugen 3 months ago
this collapes because the side still wired broken result the crane can stable the giant crane this is the point of disaster man what ashame
LiaMaKaChauHai 3 months ago
Gravity..it`s a switch.
mybluebelly 3 months ago
Errrrr... lets put it over there...
arutixar 4 months ago
mas puto :D
TheCruzProduction 5 months ago
oopps
247george247 5 months ago
don't worry, all they need is just another, bigger crane to life up the two huge fallen, broken cranes.
6daylater 5 months ago
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dbenny1000 is right. The crane is merely a victim of the load suddenly falling due to the cables on top snapping. The real question here is, how that happened to begin with.
Paulie151 5 months ago
hahahah made in chine!!!!
DidiNetRS 5 months ago
I hope he's bonded....
Snoep76239 5 months ago
They were lowering a derrick from a drilling rig either sumthing happened that they had to use the crane by the monkey board or the crane was in the way and got hung up. Usually this procedure doesn't envolve a crane when lowering Derrick
jake3137 6 months ago
If you look real close the crane is not lifting the tower. Look at top of tower and you will see cables snap then load shifts to crane breaking it
dbenny1000 6 months ago
@dbenny1000 I see that now that you mention it. Seems it was fine holding it until they snapped
hotdog2020 6 months ago
If you look real close the crane is not lifting the tower. Look at top of tower and you will see cables snap
dbenny1000 6 months ago
lol
MsH1h1h1h1 6 months ago
hey man,, you broke youre stick,,
landykid60 6 months ago
In Soviet Russia - the load snaps your crane in half -
SALESPRODUCTIONS 6 months ago
The driver had luck that the boom broke and did not tip the whole thing over. The crane was to small for this job.If Chuck Norris had his hands on a second support cable to that tower everything would have been ok.
teckeleddie 7 months ago 2
Shock loading will tip or structurally brake any crane, if you look at the video the support cable that was holding the tower at its current elevation broke making the tower drop down on the crane when the crane had nothing on the main head block fall.
What dont make cents is that why on earth was the crane there with no head height.. That crane shouldnt have been there, it is to small to handle what ever was intended.
Ramsess2011 7 months ago 7
Shit happens when you don't have enough brain to operate equipment
SMGJohn 7 months ago
this is fake i can telll
forlife69 7 months ago
@forlife69 Not everything you see that is the least bit unusual or different from what one ordinarily sees is fake.
Dinoenthusiastguy 6 months ago
We won't be drilling today, boys!
Indyrail 7 months ago
Fall down go boom! Get it? Boom? hahahahahaha
madisonelectronic 7 months ago 2
I wonder if still got his Christmas bonus ?
Kyla6592 8 months ago
that sucks
TheNuclearPistol 8 months ago
Thats what happens when you're workin the woodie and MOM walks in!
pocyclips 8 months ago 2
WTH is cable? And someone needs a new boom oops
150falcon 8 months ago
Didn't see that coming sarcastically
halofan202 8 months ago
the support cable broke
jorigo1976 8 months ago
ROFL
MarsWolfHunter 8 months ago
As long as no one gets hurt there is!!!
towjr1964 8 months ago
a better pick plan and a pack of new duoble A's for the radios
2012AhKin 8 months ago
Well going to the john BOSS...
fattony123082 8 months ago
The hydraulic crane was not even under load. Can't say it was too small, because it was just there to take some bending stress in the middle of the derrick...and obviously take some load. Looks like they were not coordinated to me.
LindaStevensBZ 8 months ago
@LindaStevensBZ can say it was WAY to small though
PInk77W1 8 months ago
having worked at several jobs where too small of a crane was used for the job, the real reason why too small of a crane gets used is because, its an expense to the job, and the project manager who gets paid off of the profit of the job will try and use the cheapest method to get things done in order to garner a bigger paycheck for himself. Oh the half assed, shoddy methods I have seen in the name of saving money, usually end up costing money when you have to go back and fix it.
shellshok1968 8 months ago
...woops
TKVRPRJCT 8 months ago
HEY! a heads up would be nice
GR8PHD 8 months ago
Wow!!
tomueki 9 months ago
co za debil taczke i to na metalowym kółku a nie do dźwigu!!!!!!!!!!!!
martinez538 9 months ago
Well, now it's down.
ElectrasolAdvanced 9 months ago
made in china
Mumutkotekeling 9 months ago
jungejungejungejunge....kranplätze müssen verdichtet sein !! Originale Nichtskönner !!! Deshalb sind die auch nicht inner EU !!!!!!! ;D
musikmakerify 9 months ago
@musikmakerify Chef rastet aus LOL
herbytown1 9 months ago
NOOO QUE FALTA DE PLANEACION Y ESTUPIDEZ AL LA VEZ IRRESPONSABLES ESA OPERACION ERA PARA DOS GRUAS ESTO ES UNA CLARA FALTA DE ESXPERIENCIA E INEPTITUD
mandyynga 9 months ago
tinker toys
dilutedmembrane 10 months ago
I build towers for a living and I wouldnt even consider picking up that in one pick. Espically with all that additional crap bolted to it. He should have set the base in one pick and then done the top section of the tower in another. Its a miracle that the tower didnt bend in half.
dctr77 10 months ago 2
@dctr77 "Espically" I wouldn't try spelling anything, writing anything, or planning anything, if I were retarded! HAHAHHAA! You sure you don't build "flowers" for a living? HAHAHHHAAHAHA
ITOADASO 10 months ago
THE ...what the hell was the operator thinking..should throw his license in the garbage after that one...IRON SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN APART
Binbrook78 10 months ago
(new craigslist post): scrap metal for sale!!!!!
carlawon 10 months ago
hang the thing heavy too not please
JLP228 10 months ago
Please do not hang the too heavy thing
Ben90222 10 months ago
In all fairness the crane in questions job was done before the other cable snapped as it did not have near the lift left to bring the tower to vertical in fact the next move was to unhook the yellow crane and continue the lift
proofbox 11 months ago
Can't pull laterally but on the bright side now they have a knuckle boom
Baphamatt 11 months ago
to me it looks like there was a winch helping the crane and the crane was just there to help the winch and it sounded like cable snap with the slack on the crane line droped so quick snaping the boom off!
joshuareimer18 11 months ago 2
Shitz Goin DOWN
sloth1620 11 months ago
Lunch time.
Meltezz 11 months ago
That is so funny. I laugh everytime I see it.
mla2026 11 months ago
and as usual the "profesionals" has to comment here...
vinnievincent85 11 months ago
this wasnt the cranes fault and for once it wasnt the operators fault. Sounded like a cable let go that was lifting the rig. Nothing in the world you can do about that from the crane operators end.
Sodiumreactor 11 months ago
@Sodiumreactor why do you think the crane was there? for good looks?100% operator fault he should have had a couple of ton on the hook supporting the load then if the guy cables broke it wouldnt have shock loaded the boom and snapped it like a twig
vxss6slot 8 months ago
@vxss6slot no.
Sodiumreactor 8 months ago
Was not the crane... Plain as day! It didnt even have a load on it!
tamaxx2 1 year ago 4
the crane wasnt even holding any load at all untill the lifting mechanism for the tower failed. it was supposed to just assist in the lift, more than likely only supposed to assist in the first 15 feet away from horizontal. look towards the top of the tower around .07 sec and look closely. you can see the cables attached to the top of the tower they were standing until the cables or whatever broke. anyway... if things were done properly there wouldnt be a youtube vid. hope nobody got hurt.
compressionfx 1 year ago
looool idiot !!!
stuistuistui 1 year ago
Greenne Peece sabotoged it (it is an oil rig right ?) ;)
Wag2112 1 year ago
Looked like a shock load to me.
nobby1997 1 year ago
no cheap crane side loading the shit out of the boom on that crane
bikersam43 1 year ago
companys that do heavy lifting should cut corners this is what hapends lukly no one got hurt but it could went reall ywrong
7249xxl 1 year ago
not a cheap crane.... looks like a Demag 150t truck crane... from what I can c the derrick might have snagged on something and caused the part off of the hoist cables..... the truck crane was just a tailing crane (probably for the rig block, those things r huge), and shock and side loaded something fierce.. poor lift planning in my opinion...
bigmekanik 1 year ago
i dont know anything about cranes,but that looks a way too heavy load to be lifting,
MegaTaurus777 1 year ago
crane in foreground wasn't even lifting the tower, just attached, something gave way at the base of the tower and pulled (folded) the boom.
lorendad 1 year ago
It's broken!
kel1981 1 year ago
@kel1981 lol is it? x)
MrKeta57 1 year ago
@MrKeta57 Yeah slightly snapped. Look at 0:11 it looks a little bit broken.
kel1981 1 year ago
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooops
ruairi50 1 year ago
I have no operator experience and wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
RICHIE87622 1 year ago
ker snap?
victoriousshade 1 year ago
Made in China.
Haxpatty 1 year ago 2
Looks like he didn't even have any pressure on hit hook when it broke free. thats some big time shock loading of the crane.
NathanHall85 1 year ago
lol
Sayles91 1 year ago
Well.......... someone cant use a calculator
GeneralG1810 1 year ago
For how many tones(lifting power) are these cranes made,any way.
telosfd 1 year ago
@telosfd the crane can lift his maximum only in 1 position,every inch that you make,up/down or left/right change the lifting limit!inside u have a computer that will tell u how much can u lift in your position!to understand the mistake just watch the rope!u sould always keep it in force!
georgyo20 1 year ago
this is what happens when i see a sexy chick then 0:10 is what happens when i see my ex
bassaddict1231 1 year ago
iv seen that happen befor that ant no joke
ben6959 1 year ago
Who hired your ex to run that rig?
YaterSpoon86 1 year ago
how did you know it was happening?
daniel3927 1 year ago
I heard Irabic talkin.... ???
Flyingheart111 1 year ago
The angle is all wrong
kiknarse 1 year ago
why was he randomly videoin a crane newas?
mickiemc100 1 year ago
i kinda think that the operator overlifted a little bit
johndeeereboy555 1 year ago
It's obviously not a fake video, but why does the camera person just stand there instead of rushing to help or swearing etc?
ACtheLegend 1 year ago
@ACtheLegend Maybe the camera was on a tripod. Alternatively, maybe the camera operator was too far away in a building many blocks away. One can, after all, use zoom lens to zoom in to the scene of action.
kliikd 1 year ago
is that the afril tower
karlsanjuan7000 1 year ago
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the crane was way out of its limit ,operator error or incompetence either one,and the idiot behind the controls workn the mast,
ewocaroo 1 year ago
the crane was way out of its limit ,operator error or incompetence either one,and the idiot behind the controls workn the mast
ewocaroo 1 year ago
ha ha ha.. head office...we need another derrick...ahh how about one that can raise on its own...ya ya safety this and safety that...how about just for a moment see the humor in these idiots calling head office and trying to talk there way out of it....the safety industry is like political correctness,and terrorism...it feeds on itself and there is no end to the madness in sight,most of it is just trumped up bullshit and takes away from the truth of the matter.truth is we need accountability.
s2who 1 year ago 2
It's all fun and games till some bitch breaks your boom.
YaterSpoon86 1 year ago
are we bad people for finding these amusing?
zicuenca 1 year ago 2
@zicuenca There is nothing amusing about industrial accidents.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 52
@Kyosho1060 so true.
zicuenca 1 year ago 2
@Kyosho1060 i have been on many industrial accidents that were amusing
PInk77W1 8 months ago
good luck suckin that boom back in
gndzroirnwkr 1 year ago
Well done - idiots!
sotel1 1 year ago
man....dude left his load hanging! no tension on the sling.....totally avoidable!
thatguyyo 1 year ago
The crane wasn't lifting anything when it went wrong. I bet it was there to just get it of the ground so the wires could pull it up.
tomasf4 1 year ago
if the cables snapped obviously the pulling capacity was breached, also the capbles could of been dameged prior to this lift.
as a cranie alway check your machine before and after every use common safe work practice.
and yes that crane does look like its to small for that job.
koringn 1 year ago
@koringn
I dont wish to get to heavy on this....excuse the pun!
The incident was preventable. I have 3 comments:
1-inadequate Lift Planning - the actual applied load tension as applied to the wires attached to the crown block of the Derrick was above the MBL of the wires. You can see clearly that the wires parted, there is a dust/rust cloud. 2-The Mobile Crane's purpose was only to take the initial weight - to assist 3-Mr mobile Crane Operator was not to blame whatsoever.
ssgrfc123 1 year ago
@ssgrfc123 i dont disagree with you on the first two but why isn't his fault after all as an opperator its your duty to check the eqiupment your using at least for your safety, also was there a doger there?
if i new my cranes could not do the job id tell them to go shov it as ive done in the past, after all its your life your playing with when using stuff like that.
koringn 1 year ago
Guys... Do u want to c anything far sillier than this???/ youtube.com/watch?v=5W0bXZ6k0OE
sr230399 1 year ago
Why did they use the weight of an antenna to bend a crane?
ftervoorde 1 year ago
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Nips916 1 year ago
What an absolute burke :D
MisterDerrp 1 year ago
by the way the cables snap at :10
Canadaboy1980 1 year ago
ok every 1 is blaming the crane and operator but did anyone happen to see the cables snap 1st that were atached to the tower at the top? so yea all that weight has to go sumwhere snap a crane if it has to as well lol
Canadaboy1980 1 year ago
cheap crane. it bent in the middle
guardiegirly 1 year ago
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I just love how everyone becomes a professional when they watch a video like this! If only they knew how retarded their comments sound to Professional Operators! This accident obviously has nothing to do with either the crane or the operator!
mrryencoke 1 year ago
peacelove is right, the crane should have continued to help untill the rig was at least past 45 degrees or further.
jamiemenuez 1 year ago
Non Union Rats.
Irnwkr28 1 year ago
@Irnwkr28 Stupidity comes from both union and non union workers what a great comment from some brainwashed ironworker.
ironclad2010 1 year ago
The first mistake is the company had too small of a crane attached to the rig.second mistake the operator was attached too the rig.Pure and simple.This is what happens when companies try to cut corners.Safety is not an accident.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 198
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@Kyosho1060 First, the crane is only there to take the belly out of the rig on the initial 0 to 30 degrees or so on the initial lift off the ground, not to maintain the weight of the entire rig. As for your second mistake suggestion...... they were doing it the "safe" way! Do you think it would have been wiser to have someone climb up the rig to disconnect it? Look what happened! Once you start an erection of a lattice type boom, jib or rig.... you dont stop until its up to a safe angle.
mrryencoke 1 year ago
@mrryencoke I was a Heavy Equipment operator 22 years,Friction crane operator for 13 years.I do know what I'm talking about.So you can say all you want because you are entitled to your opinion.I call it as see.I would have never put myself or any worker in that position.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 172
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@Kyosho1060. That tower was being erected by some unseen winch type arrangement off screen. you can see the steel ropes attached to the top of the tower, raking down to the left of screen.
The problem with this setup was that mr mobile crane had slack in his ropes. When the raked ropes failed, the yellow jib copped a massive shock load due to a lack of tension between the hook and upper sheave. The crane was obviously within radius. Operator error?
veganSausage 1 year ago
@veganSausage You are entitled to your opinion,you obviously do not know what you are talking about.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 39
@Kyosho1060 i suggest you pause the video at 8 seconds, the strop between crane hook and tower is slack, then look at the top of the tower and left, you can clearly see a cable, keep watching that top point of the cable because at 10 seconds it breaks.
allseeingeyes2008 8 months ago
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@veganSausage roger right on, some people on here think they know an dont, me no little bout cranes but no enough to agree with you
455gs1 1 year ago
@Kyosho1060 Couldn't agree more. Been in cranes myself till a colleague managed to nearly cut off my foot with a load of iron (let's just push it a tad more). Let's say I was lucky because I just had my foot injured, there's those who lost their lives making these kind of gambles.
It is always the driver who is responsible. This one took way too much chance on his part.
kivech69 8 months ago 3
@Kyosho1060 As a young safety professional I have to agree. Too small a crane for that pick. This is exactly what happens when companies try and cut corners to save money. Now that the tower is destroyed how much money did they save?
ride446 1 year ago
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@Kyosho1060 well i will tell you as a crane coordinator the mobile crane was not there to hold the structure the crane was there to make sure the connecting 6 metre basket was secure and did not move or damage the main structure as it can make the structure twist on the first 70 degrees of lifting it was slack because the risk was gone of twisting the rig hoisting the structure failed any crane operator should see this i wouldnt let a man on site who didnt
carsieplg 1 year ago
@carsieplg I have 1 ? for you,was the operator still connected,yes or no?
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 15
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@Kyosho1060 yes i for one would not risk the safety of my banksmen to unhook until the rig is safely in position its called two machines working in cunjunction with each other and i have done that many times so if i send a man up the mast to hook off and this happens thats a death on my hands any good operator would know this so you would risk a mans life to go up and hook off thats just plain stupid just shows the training that you have not received
carsieplg 1 year ago
@carsieplg You are a bigger MORON than I thought,I was not at this location and neither was you MORON,if that be the case in which the operator was keeping it from twisting,ok.but once the load was release from the crane,the operator should have disconnected by means of a bucket truck in which would have been the only safe way to do this proceedure.If you disagree with this,I would like to know where you recieve your training because you didn't finish it.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 19
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@Kyosho1060 but even if you send a man up in a teleboom platform he is still going to be at risk as he will be under a crane connected to an unsafe load and well if you check with hse you will find this to be illegal and a site can be closed down and prosecuted so you are the moron and my training is citb and construction skills register that all construction operatives must do it or your not allowed on site and i think you will find citb among the worlds best training services on construction
carsieplg 1 year ago
@carsieplg You MORON! Now I know your getting this information and reading it from a web site.You are trying to knock me down and it's not going to happen.Have a great :) day.P.S. use common sense and stop reading from a book,don't get anyone killed.
Kyosho1060 1 year ago 12
@Kyosho1060 You misspelled multiple words in a short paragraph. in closing...HA HA!
seattlehawkins 4 months ago
@seattlehawkins So,did you understand it?
Kyosho1060 4 months ago 3
@Kyosho1060 - Having used a similar crane myself, I do agree with your assessment. It is obvious that the guy cables attached to the top of the rig tower to help hoist it up snapped (the ones that go off screen to the left), and that small crane couldn't possibly hold up that heavy load by itself. It's really too bad so many construction workers hate OSHA because their rules evolved out of actual and needless accidents. Hopefully no one involved with this failed pick was injured.
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gregjalbert 8 months ago
No one's fault?! It sure is. Respectfully, it's the ignorance of the people doing the lift failing to correctly gauge the weight of that lift and to appropriately string it up for this eventuality. Unless there's a catastrophic manufacturing defect in these failing cranes in You Tube videos, ALL of the failures are user's faults; the failure to correctly gauge the weight of the lifts being attempted. Pretty simple.
Torrque 1 year ago
that was no-one's fault it happens now and then and no cranes arnt cheap seing as 500 ton cranes cost up to £3million
BRAV0TWOZER0 1 year ago
is the crane operator fault .....he should never atempt this pick no tension on the rig...ha ..wata idiot i bet his boss is not really happy.thats why we make lift plans. dont put it on your resume ether.lol
shulow1 1 year ago
is the crane operator fault .....he should never atempt this pick no tension on the rig...ha ..wata idiot i bet his boss is not really happy.thats why we make lift plans.
shulow1 1 year ago
The crane operator should have been taking his share of the load much sooner.
As the load was lowered the cables tension stress would have been multiplying expontentially.
Hence the failure of the cables.
Balenza345 1 year ago
definitely not the crane or the operator...
...the block not hang/support the load anymore...
the load force its greater when it fall...so the boom bend and snap...
selie7 1 year ago
that arm on the crane snapted like a toothpick dang
AmericanPride1234 1 year ago
thats what they get for getting their crane at harbor freight
mortum000 1 year ago
cheap crane
sh500fxs 1 year ago
someone just got fired lol
buttsecksist 1 year ago
maybe now the people over this job will realize the importance of load charts and having the right equipment for the job
cornbread776 1 year ago
overloading..
koituz09 1 year ago
most crane crashes are quite scary... but this one is quite funny hahahahha
aaronchungrulez 1 year ago
See my earlier comment regarding this epic failure. I don't know why this keeps coming up, however I stand by my position. Thank you.
KMS149 1 year ago
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the boom was top load off center at junction point. The reason for collapse was maxed out jib fluctuation due to overextended boom derrick positioning. Nothing more, nothing less.
KMS149 1 year ago
Whenever you have two machines working to lift the same load, it can be a recipe for failure.
The crane was intended to help reduce the load on the cables and machinery pulling, but he was not helping. He must have helped get it off the ground, and then left his hoist line go slack as whatever was pulling on the cables took over.
He should have continued to help take some weight off, untill it was past 45 debrees.
lucky no one was hurt.
jamiemenuez 1 year ago
Theres a cable tied to the tower thats holding it... it snapped. Then the rest fell.. you can see the cable barely at 0:10 it goes from the tower to the left of the screen... then you hear the pop and everything goes.
They probably had a winch of some sort pulling the top towards the left while the other lifted a bit.
hondase 1 year ago
both lmao first crane should have been bigger n the crane looks old to me n not well maintained lol and the boom needs to be higher basically needed a bigger crane lol
aam44Nose 1 year ago
it looks like it fell on a cabble and this crane is to small to lift that thing then the cabble it fell on gave way there trying to lift it and just snapped this small crane like a tooth pick after when the cabble broke that was taking most of the waight
vivitar45 1 year ago
Ciekawe gdzie się szkolił operator żurawia.
Adetykar 1 year ago
should've took the slack out..
cmanleyspy 1 year ago