30.05.2008

Shipyard crane collapse kills three

Two 600 tonne gantry cranes collapsed earlier today killing three men at a shipyard operated by Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group in Shanghai's Pudong New Area, China. Two others were seriously injured.
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The scene this morning as the light came up

The two cranes are reported to have literally “fell apart” just after midnight while lifting cargo according to the Shanghai Safety Production and Supervision Administration.

The cranes would of course been lifting ship modules, most likely in a tandem lift that went wrong, the failure of one then caused an overload of the other.
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One end of the massive gantry crane came crashing down crushing all in its path

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding is a subsidiary of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, the country's main ship builder.