Its arm dangled 1,000 feet above West 57th Street until the city secured it a little less than a week later. 29, the city had evacuated the neighbors of a mid-construction 90-story apartment building, destined to become the Big Apple's tallest residential structure, after the top of a crane collapsed in high winds of 80 to 100 mph from Hurricane Sandy. The crane's operator came under scrutiny, at least from the press, after the Daily News reported he had been questioned in two previous lawsuits involving co-workers who had been injured while he was behind the controls. A day after the incident, the MTA shut down all activity at the site. The two deadly crane accidents prompted the resignation of NYC Buildings Commissioner Patricia Lancaster, who faced criticism of her department's handling of construction violations. It also fueled new safety measures for crane projects, such as the hiring of more inspectors and the expansion of inspection checklists. The DOB began stipulating that construction companies file plans before erecting or dismantling a crane, and that crane operators had to complete 30 hours of training, following up with eight-hour refresher courses every three years.Ģ012: In April, the upper section of a crane broke off during work on the 7 train extension at 34th Street, killing a construction worker and injuring four other people. The families of the six construction workers killed won financial settlements from the construction companies involved four years later. The owner of the company to which the crane belonged, James Lomma, was indicted two years later and ultimately acquitted for failing to fix it properly after it had been struck by lightening. A third construction worker was seriously injured. The workers had been building a 32-story condominium. In May, an accident on the Upper East Side killed two workers when the top of a 200-foot-tall crane crashed into and destroyed a penthouse apartment. Rigging contractor William Rapetti and his company were charged with manslaughter (but later acquitted), and a former building inspector faced the charge of tampering with public records after authorities accused him of lying about examining the crane 11 days before it collapsed. Seven people were killed, 24 more were injured and 18 homes in the area were evacuated. 15, a nylon sling hauling seven tons of metal studs broke, seriously injuring an architect at the site of the 43-story Battery Park City building that was being erected for Goldman Sachs.Ģ008: In March, a crane above a high-rise construction site in Midtown East collapsed, taking a brownstone and tenement facade with it. It shattered windows, spilled shards of glass onto the sidewalk and injured eight people. 7, a 5-foot steel bucket being lifted by a crane to the roof of the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park fell.
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We've taken a look back at notable crane accidents over the last 10 years below:Ģ007: On Oct.
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Stringer's office estimates that at any one time, about 300 cranes are operating within the city. The increasing proliferation of high rises in the city makes the issue of crane safety one worthy of everyone's attention. The Department of Buildings has instituted a number of reforms to the regulation of crane projects in the past decade, but a 2014 audit of the DOB's implementation of the new procedures revealed that 12 percent of the safety recommendations had been enforced, City Comptroller Scott Stringer's office reported. The crane was being lowered to secure against the 20 mph winds when flipped it over and sent its 565-foot-long arm flying onto Worth Street, between Church Street and West Broadway. Crown Heights, Prospect Heights & Prospect-Lefferts GardensĪ crane collapse at a TriBeCa construction site Friday morning has killed one person and injured three.
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Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens & Red Hook.