90-tonne segment of bridge plunges into Fraser River
CBC News
Posted: Feb 10, 2012 9:33 AM PT
Last Updated: Feb 10, 2012 3:30 PM PT
A crane tipped off its tracks on the Port Mann bridge construction project east of Vancouver on Friday morning and dropped a segment of the bridge into the Fraser River.
Bridge project spokesman Max Logan said the gantry crane, which is designed to move on rails, is secure and nobody was hurt, but a 90-tonne section of the bridge deck the crane was moving fell into the Fraser River.
The segment struck a pile as it fell and is now submerged in the river. It is unclear whether the segment can be recovered.
The bridge segments are brought in by barge and lifted into place by the special 720-tonne horizontal gantry crane, which is also called a segment launcher.
Logan said one of the supports for the gantry appears to have been crushed and the gantry pitched forward.
It is unclear how long the mishap will delay the project, but the contractor Kiewit is responsible for any costs that result.
The Trans-Canada Highway remains open on the old Port Mann Bridge and there are no reports of any injuries.
When completed, the $800-million bridge will provide 10-lane crossing of the Fraser River for the Trans-Canada Highway east of Vancouver. It is scheduled to be completed in 2013.
A 250-foot-tall crane collapsed Friday morning onto a building at a construction site at the Kent County jail complex in Grand Rapids, injuring three people, authorities said.
The jail was placed on lockdown following the incident. Kent County Undersheriff Jon Hess described the injuries to a construction worker and two Kent County jail trustees as minor, The Grand Rapids Press (http://bit.ly/ziaMEe) reported.
Both the department construction company officials said all inmates and workers were accounted for.
Construction company Owen-Ames-Kimball Co. said Friday in a statement it was investigating the cause of the accident and had no further information. Hess said it appears that a cable snapped as the crane was carrying cement.
Images from the scene showed part of the crane leaning against a building. A garage area where sheriff's vehicles are kept was damaged.
The main jail that houses inmates apparently wasn't damaged, and Hess said authorities were checking the structural integrity of that building.
The crane that fell has been used for seven months on a $27 million renovation project, Hess said.
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Isla Mujeres, Q.R. — UPDATED: One person has died in a construction accident after a jib crane collapsed at the Majéstic México Hotel site on Isla Blanca.
The collapse of the crane killed one and left several injured at noon Thursday when someone called Emergency 911 for help. Reports say emergency rescue personnel and ambulance staff were made to wait more than 20 minutes outside the site after being refused entry to keep the news of the accident in-house.
However once inside, they found one of the two on-site jib cranes had collapsed, falling over, injuring workers in its path.
The exact number of injured are not known, however the deceased has been identified as 32-year-old Julio C.C.M. who was the operator of the crane.
Officials of the Directorate of Civil Protection also arrived at the construction site to investigate the reason for the collapse of the metal structure as well as question why access to rescuers was denied.
UPDATE: Civil Protection and Urban Development Directorates of the Municipality of Isla Mujeres have closed the construction site of the hotel.
In a statement, they reported that after a review of the site, closure stamps were placed by personnel from the state agencies on part of the City of Isla Mujeres for further inspection and reporting.
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Kalaburagi, Karnataka:
A crane collapsed at an under-construction cement factory in Kalaburagi in Karnataka on Thursday, leaving six dead and one injured.
Police have reached the spot and rescue operations are underway. The six workers who died are reportedly labourers from Bihar.
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FORT COLLINS, CO -- A construction crane collapsed onto the roof of a building on the campus of Colorado State University's Veterinary Hospital campus in Fort Collins on Monday. No injuries were immediately reported when the crane fell onto the roof of the building being constructed at the College of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences.
The building is being constructed by Silva Global Solutions northeast of the veterinary hospital at 300 West Drake Road.
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A towering crane being used to build a new police headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida, toppled over this morning, sending construction workers scrambling for their lives.
The scary incident happened at 8:23 a.m. and was captured on security video.
The footage, obtained by ABC News, showed the crane, which appeared to be about 10 stories high, swaying and falling over as workers on the ground ran to be avoid being hit by it. The crane barely missed crushing several workers, including one seen racing out of a dust cloud.
No one was injured in the incident and no damage was caused to the new police headquarters, according to a tweet from the St. Petersburg Police Department
The cause of the crane collapse is under investigation and officials have notified the Florida Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Construction on the new $72 million police headquarters began about a year ago in downtown St. Petersburg, about three blocks from Tropicana Field, home of the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team.
The 167,519-square-foot state-of-the-art building is being constructed to withstand a category 5 hurricane, according to online information posted on the website of the Ajax Building Corp., the general contractor on the project.
The Ajax Building Corp. did not immediately respond to a request from ABC News for comment.
In 2012, four workers were killed and seven were injured when a parking garage being built at Miami-Dade College in Doral, Florida, collapsed. The Ajax Building Corp. was the general contractor on the garage project and was one of five construction firms hit with fines by OSHA totaling more than $38,000 for failing to properly secure and inspect columns and other structural elements of the garage.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Thousands of motorists traveling along MRR2 today were caught in a massive traffic jam especially from Ulu Klang to Ampang after a crane collapsed at the site of a construction project near Dataran Ukay at about 10am today.
Bernama found that as of 1.30pm, only one of the three lanes along the route could be used as the crane was still obstructing traffic flow.
According to Selangor Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department Head Superintendent Azman Shari’at, the traffic congestion stretched five kilometres from Ulu Klang to Ampang.
He said the consultants and contractors involved in the project were in the process of moving the crane which was obstructing traffic.
The incident also resulted in a man, 36, being injured and now being treated at the Ampang Hospital.
As at 6.20pm, two units of crane transporters were used to remove the crane that collapsed at the project site near Dataran Ukay, here this morning.
According to sources, one of the two cranes was placed near the embankment of the slope near the site of the collapsed crane while the other crane was parked on the road to provide support.
“At the moment, the project contractor was in the process of fixing a special chain to one of the wheels of the crane to carry the collapsed crane.
“In addition, a temporary platform was also being erected to place the collapsed crane and this was being implemented as soon as possible,”he told Bernama.
Traffic congestion was still being reported at the MRR2 especially from the direction of Ulu Kelang to Ampang. — Bernama
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18/02/18 19:15
Woman killed after crane falls on her car in Kfar Saba. Crane operator detained for questioning
A woman was killed in central Israel Sunday afternoon after a crane collapsed, crushing her car.
The woman, roughly 40 years of age, was killed as she sat in her car near a commercial center by the intersection of Hatzomet Street and Derech Hsharon.
MDA emergency first responders were called to the scene, but were forced to declare the woman dead shortly after their arrival.
Witnesses say part of a crane fell onto the woman’s car, crushing the vehicle – with the woman inside.
“We saw the vehicle crushed, and [next to it] on the street were pieces of the crane, which had fallen on the car,” said MDA’s Yarkon district chief Assi Dublinski. “Outside of the car there was a woman, about 40 years of age, lying on the ground, unconscious, who was not breathing and had no heartbeat and was suffering from serious multi-organ injuries. She had no vital signs, and after a short period of time, we were forced to declare her dead at the scene.”
Police have opened an investigation into the incident, and detained the operator of the crane for questioning.
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