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Remember it well...a contributing factor to this failure was the center walking beam jack was not lowered ...Big Blue was owned by Lampson Crane...this particular unit was a design/build by Lampson whose specialty is heavy lift and will build the crane they need for a specific lift...given that this was a "homemade" crane it adds to the complication that it may have been substandard in that safety features were either mistakenly neglected or deliberately and the reason being is that no functions should initiate until all failsafe features are deployed and this is ensured by way of proximity switches that indicate deployment...the walking beam stabilizer lowered into place would have set the proximity switch thus sending the signal to the central processor that everything is in place and functions are actuated, if the stabilizer doesn't go down the proximity switch doesn't get activated and nothing moves but that's not what happened and the operation continued until it didn't and 3 Ironworkers dead.
Our company took over the crane work.

I work around a lot of shit that could
Kill me. There’s a lot of safety protocols but man if I died at work I would be pissed. Imagine dying at WORK. Let me die literally anywhere else: I would rather get blown up by some dick head with a bomb in a library than die at work. Imagine you get turned into a ghost and you have to haunt the workplace. Man. Just send me to hell at that point.

1999 seems like an eternity ago.

It's always crazy to watch a video of a cane collapse, they come apart like they were made of tooth picks. Just shows how perfectly in balance they are when they work.

Ah fuck.

No worries, that shit will buff right out.