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Posted by Ignoramus25652 on June 8, 2008, 11:03 am
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/08building.html
Investigators now believe that the rebuilt turntable wound up in a
tower crane involved in a fatal accident at 91st Street and First
Avenue on May 30, according to NationsBuilders Insurance Services, the
insurer for the crane owner. In that accident, a weld in the rebuilt
turntable apparently failed, causing the top of the crane to break
away and fall on a 23-story building across 91st Street, killing two
workers. It was the kind of disaster that city officials had feared
might happen on 46th Street last year.
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Posted by SteveB on June 8, 2008, 1:30 pm
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/08building.html
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> Investigators now believe that the rebuilt turntable wound up in a
> tower crane involved in a fatal accident at 91st Street and First
> Avenue on May 30, according to NationsBuilders Insurance Services, the
> insurer for the crane owner. In that accident, a weld in the rebuilt
> turntable apparently failed, causing the top of the crane to break
> away and fall on a 23-story building across 91st Street, killing two
> workers. It was the kind of disaster that city officials had feared
> might happen on 46th Street last year.
>
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A failed weld MAY have been ONE of the causes of the accident, but the
practices of the inspector did not help.
Steve
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Posted by Martin H. Eastburn on June 8, 2008, 9:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options And to add, Critical items that can cause loss of life require multiple
backup systems to prevent. The turntable might not have backups, but something
should have prevented total failure.
One of the serious issues is that 43% of all cranes are in UAE, Dubai while
37% are in China. You know how many are in ROW and just how many and of what
quality are left.
The steel is going to Dubai and China. The cranes (new and best) are in UAE &
China.
Reference : EETimes www.eetimes.com Dubai: from sand to silicon.
Good for them really - they have moved their economy such that oil is 3% GDP.
Dubai has 70% of the GDP.
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SteveB wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/08building.html
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>> Investigators now believe that the rebuilt turntable wound up in a
>> tower crane involved in a fatal accident at 91st Street and First
>> Avenue on May 30, according to NationsBuilders Insurance Services, the
>> insurer for the crane owner. In that accident, a weld in the rebuilt
>> turntable apparently failed, causing the top of the crane to break
>> away and fall on a 23-story building across 91st Street, killing two
>> workers. It was the kind of disaster that city officials had feared
>> might happen on 46th Street last year.
>>
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> A failed weld MAY have been ONE of the causes of the accident, but the
> practices of the inspector did not help.
>
> Steve
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> Investigators now believe that the rebuilt turntable wound up in a
> tower crane involved in a fatal accident at 91st Street and First
> Avenue on May 30, according to NationsBuilders Insurance Services, the
> insurer for the crane owner. In that accident, a weld in the rebuilt
> turntable apparently failed, causing the top of the crane to break
> away and fall on a 23-story building across 91st Street, killing two
> workers. It was the kind of disaster that city officials had feared
> might happen on 46th Street last year.
>
> --
> Due to extreme spam originating from Google Groups, and their
> inattention
> to spammers, I and many others block all articles originating
> from Google Groups. If you want your postings to be seen by
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