24.05.2024

Crane boom snap

The base section of an aging Locatelli Rough Terrain crane literally snapped on a job site in San Bonifacio, Italy earlier this month.
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Thankfully no one was hurt and apart from the crane itself damage was minimal. The incident occurred on May 8th on a trading estate site in San Bonifacio due west of Verona. It seems that the crane was being used to pull some underground pipes out of the ground.
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We can only assume that the crane was grossly overloaded and possibly working within the structural part of the chart, thus causing the boom failure, rather than an overturn.

The recovery - using another crane and a 360 degree telehandler - was as slap dash as the job itself appears to have been. It is astonishing that a second incident did not occur while it was being conducted.
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We have failed - so far - to unearth any further information.