A fatal accident at York University in Toronto this afternoon did not involve a crane as has been widely reported. The tragic incident in which one man died and another was seriously injured, involved an excavator based foundation machine, which overturned at the site of a future subway station for the university.
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The story describes the collapse of the boom. The included picture shows a turntable that separated from the mast. You can see the pin holes with no pins in place. I’m wondering where they are.
“On 20 October 2007, when the vessel M/V MAERSK MYTILINI was preparing to leave the port of Kwangyang, South Korea, a boom from a shore gantry crane detached itself and fell on to the vessel’s deck in front of the bridge.
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