Overhead Crane Failure - Drops 75 Tons!

This is the failure of an overhead crane in the Netherlands. Buy quality equipment, and be sure to inspect your equipment! - http://www.hoistexperts.com

I recieved this video in an email a while back. I am not sure of the exact details. If anyone has any further information as to what exactly caused the failure or any information on the damage it caused, let me know!

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[Navigator777777]

I'm sick of the "You can't be too safe" ideology.

Yes you can. Thats how socialist countries are created.

[HoistExperts]

@Navigator777777 Your logic escapes me. Being safe = socialist? Why would you take unnecessary risks with peoples lives working around equipment like this? If its worth doing, it's worth doing RIGHT.

[predatortheme]

Well guys! atleast the rotor is in the housing !

[EbayConvict]

shes in

[ogarmi21]

They used that little hoist to lift a 75 tons rotor? It seems to me that it's overloaded.

[turdnug]

Wow, so what actually failed? And my 2 cents on the OSHA "debate", I'm glad they're around, not all businesses but some would certainly put their workers lives and limbs in unnecessary danger if it meant making more money. No business is worth lives or limbs, unless it's saving more than it's taking. Based on Nav's comments, I think he's just trying to get people worked up, and he's doing a good job of it.

[Navigator777777]

@Jpark8283

The reality is, OSHA butts in on business just like you butted on this conversation.

See...this thread started because I used the word 'socialism' in conjunction with OSHA.

"You Can't Be Too Safe" is an ideal position for OSHA to take. Its a stacked decked in favor of the casino.

All across America, American business is under attack by mycelia spreading its fungus like web of toxic socialist nonsense.

Business is labeled criminal just by the appearance of OSHA.

[Jpark8283]

@Navigator777777 You started by saying that you are sick of the "you cant be too safe mentality" and that you are tired of OSHA because the "fat sobs" make things "impossible". and now you claim you go above the OSHA minimums. So either you have NO idea what you are talking about, or you are just a moron. I cant tell which, and i guess it doesnt matter. Oh, and if you run your business safely you will likely NEVER have an OHSA inspection. So nothing you say adds up.

[Navigator777777]

@Jpark8283 ,

I love it when a professional resorts to expletives to make a point.

I can conduct my own business safely without overbearing, agenda motivated, self promoting government telling me what I can and cannot do.

I take you agree, a company composed entirely of former OSHA inspectors would be a sight to behold?

[Jpark8283]

@Navigator777777 So if you go ABOVE minimum safe practices (OSHA Rules) and use "Maximum safe practice" then what in the holy mother of FUCK is your problem?

[Navigator777777]

@Jpark8283 ,

I'd like to see a company made up entirely of OSHA members using their own money run a business.

I don't use minimum safe practice...I use maximum safe practice in often dangerous jobs.

[Jpark8283]

@Navigator777777 you can question it all you like. but if you did any research at all you would find out that nearly all fatalities in the work place are found to have been preventable if OSHA recomendations were followed. The exceptions were cases of sudden illness. OSHA makes NO opinion about business being bad or good, it only makes and enforces minimum safe practices. thats all. get over it.

[Navigator777777]

@Jpark8283

This conversation is an example.

If a fella runs a business....I question an outfit like OSHA to subrogate their authority with no responsibility.

Imagine pissy old me and an OSHA rep determining how you should run your business?

OSHA comes from the opinion all business is bad unless they have examined it,

fined it, and then found the operator to be "In compliance" which generally means....we will do whatever you want just go away and stop fining us.