Officials working to determine cause of NYC crane collapse

“I started to see debris falling from the building in front of me”, explained Natale in an interview with TAP into. There are now 376 crawler cranes active in New York City, the mayor said. Sources told 1010 WINS’ Roger Stern that Reilly probably saved lives by moving the crane away from buildings and onto the street.

The boom of the crane measured 152m.

Among the three injured, a 73-year-old man with a cut to the head was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center and a 45-year-old female with a leg injury was taken to New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, officials said.

Capable of lifting 330 tons, the rig had been working for about a week to replace air conditioning equipment and generators on the roof of 60 Hudson Street, a 425-foot-tall, Jazz Age skyscraper that once housed Western Union, officials said. “Thank God it was not worse”, he said.

What investigators have ruled out is the crane’s operator being under the influence.

Immediately after notifying the police of the incident, Natale, who has lived in Westfield for more than a decade, called his father to inform him of the events that had just transpired.

NEW YORK (AP) – A construction crane has been removed from the New York City street where it collapsed, killing a pedestrian.

“The main point is to cut them in locations that doesn’t compromise the forensic engineering value so we can have experts study how these pieces failed”, said Department of Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler. All three were hit by debris. His family says he was a mathematical whiz who worked at a computerized trading firm.

The collapse happened as the crew was lowering the crane due to high winds.

The sharp criticism of the New York City Department of Buildings was made by the office of Comptroller Scott Stringer, who released the results of an updated audit just hours after the accident.

But another crane fell and killed a worker in April 2012 at a subway construction site that was exempt from most city building safety rules.

The boom landed across an intersection, smashed several vehicle roofs and stretched much of a block after the accident around 8:25 a.m.at a historic building about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center. Because of the weather forecast, work on the building had stopped Thursday night so that the crane could be lowered on Friday morning.

Certain manufacturers require operators to store their cranes at wind speeds lower than 30mph.

The employee at Bay Crane said he was a manager but would not give his name when reached by The Associated Press.

Fire officials say one person was killed and two seriously injured.

Officials said they would discuss the city’s response and recovery actions at a news conference Saturday at the site of the collapse.

“The wind started blowing so they went back up with it. On the second attempt to lower it, that’s when it got out of control and then it collapsed”, said witness Dan Vaughn.