24.06.2010

Four injured by falling crane boom

Four men were injured after the boom of a mobile crane dropped on them at a road construction site near Jackson Tennessee on Tuesday.
All four are employed by the Tennessee Department of Transportation the four were named as Ricky Sanders, Odell March, Richard Stone and Ron Fleming. Three of the men were airlifted to hospital, and three have since been released. Stone remains in hospital.
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The crane boom caught four men

The crew was working on a bridge on Tenn. 424 in Carroll County, around three miles east of Interstate 70 between Cedar Grove and Clarksburg.
The crane a lattice boomed Little Giant of some vintage, appears to have simply dropped its boom suddenly, either due to a pendant failure or of the derricking gear. We do not know who owns the crane.