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  1. Tree09

    Crane accident - very bad outcome

    I have seen a crane's outriggers sink before, it went to the edge and he was able to get it down quick enough (dude had no business in a crane and the outriggers sank in asphalt on a summer day). We were unloading a small but very heavy tank off a trailer, and that was the only thing that saved...
  2. Tree09

    Crane accident - very bad outcome

    I can't imagine a hard hat doing much against an overloaded crane boom. That dude died by doing something he had no idea how to do. How's people like that get ahold of equipment like that is beyond me.
  3. Tree09

    Crane accident - very bad outcome

    I read up on that a bit, sounds like he was a drywall guy who was supposed to be on the 8th floor, but somehow fell from the 18th. I don't want to speak ill of a man after such a tragedy, but to me that sounds like a suicide.
  4. Tree09

    Crane accident - very bad outcome

    Load charts exist for a reason. Sad, but the phrase know enough to get yourself killed comes to mind
  5. Tree09

    Crane accident - very bad outcome

    :(:( yeah that was just all sorts of bad.
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