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...
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.
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.
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