11.10.2007

Boom truck tips

A boom truck/crane tipped and came to rest on a building in Gahanna, near Columbus, Ohio yesterday, closing a busy street.

No one was hurt in the accident which occurred at the Creekside Conference and Convention Center site in the town.
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A lucky escape for crane and operator

The crane, a National Crane, had its full boom extended plus swingaway extension. It was lowering a piece of steel onto the building’s roof when it tipped.

The boom came to rest against the edge of the buildings roof and was later righted with little apparent damage to crane or buiiding.

The Stonehenge Company is the main contractor on the site. A spokesman is quoted as saying "We were setting some small steel members on the top of our middle building and somehow we had an imbalance with the crane,"