07.01.2016
Crane boom down
A crawler crane boom came down onto a barge from which another crane was working yesterday in West Palm Beach Florida.
The crane a classic Manitowoc crawler - possibly a 4100 - was one of three large crawler cranes working on the Flagler Memorial Bridge replacement over the Inter Coastal waterway, and appears to have been extracting sheet piles. The crane which has come down is owned by Barcelona Equipment and was working on a jack up barge at the time. The boom tip landed on another barge from which a larger Manitowoc Ringer owned by Essex Crane Rental was working.
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The boom only just missed hitting the larger crane
We have no information on what caused the boom to drop although it was suggested by our local correspondent that the failure of a boom hoist cable or pendant might be to blame. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident and the boom appears to have fallen short of the larger crane.
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The crane boom came down onto another barge working close by
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An earlier photo of the crane working on the Flagler bridge replacement
lambsy
in the second photo of this incident if u look close to the larger barge , you can see a green exstraction hammer on a round steel pile - look how far away it is from the center of the slew ring ? look way out of permissible radius to me .