Big Building Chunk Falls on Track-hoe!

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Uploaded by on Sep 7, 2007

This is an accident during demolition for the City Creek Center in Salt Lake City. The operator survived in the extremely strong cab of the hoe, thank goodness!

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  • They managed that by using a sweet track hoe. Kudos to the manufacturer of that cab.

  • @NickBorrego

    They would have been using an even sweeter track-hoe if it had worked: a Hitachi high-reach excavator.

  • He should've been fine in that machine so long as the operator had the window closed.

  • @ultra187

    They didn't say whether the window was closed or not, but they did say that he came out of it okay, with just a few scrapes or something like that (as I have already mentioned elsewhere in here).

  • Wat is die 'commentator' een kneus :')

  • @AlexMiedema

    Nope, I'm not a "crusher," Alex. I'm not sure where you might get an idea like that.

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  • @Reid107

    That would be an ill-conceived thing, for sure! It's a good thing he was out in front of it instead--even though that big piece still fell on his machine...

    I don't think you could get under it, anyway. The piece of building that was under that big piece that fell is what was under that big piece that fell.

  • @MaxxFordham Yeah I guess so. It just seems ill conceived to sit under the structure that you are trying to demolish...

  • @Reid107

    Maybe that he'd just be breaking off smaller pieces at a time and that the accident wouldn't happen. I think most people think the accident won't happen when they try things.

  • Umm what did he think was gonna happen?

  • @piratesm6

    Uh-oh, what happened? Did all these other responses about what happened to the operator start coming up blank?

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