02.02.2018

Fatal incident at crane plant

Reports are coming in of a fatal crane incident that occurred this morning at the Manitowoc / Grove crane plant in Shady Grove Pennsylvania.

We understand that two men have died, while three others were injured, one of them seriously, he was airlifted to hospital where his condition is said to be critical, the other two were taken to the local hospital and later released.

Police have now released the name of the two many who died, they are: Christopher Robison, 49, a 30 year Grove /Manitowoc veteran, who was most recently employed in the research and development department, and John Marcoux, 66, who has worked for the company for the past 10 years. Both men grew up in the local area.
UPDATE The seriously injured third man has now died as a result of injuries, he has been named as Isaac Dean Notz, 38, of Wisconsin.

We have few details so far of what actually occured, but have been told that the incident involved a lattice crawler crane being rigged on the test pad - However we cannot confirm this information. Wind speeds in the area were gusting in the region of 16 metres a second.

If we learn more later today we will update this item at that time. The company says that at its paramount concern at this time is the families of those who were involved in the incident.
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We understand that the incident might have occurred with a lattice crawler crane