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A crane collapsed on the Upper East Side and it has been confirmed that two people have died and at least one person has been seriously injured.

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23 responses // Giant crane collapse in Manhattan kills 2

  • http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/0-0&fp=48408...
    This is a repeat of what happened a few weeks ago. The issue we need to be concerned with is how workers rights are being effected by a desire to construct things rapidly. The infrastructure is not self-supporting. Even after a building inspector resigned after the city's buildings commissioner resigned, after a series of deadly construction accidents.
    joshuaheller
  • http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2008/03/16/2008-03-16_c...
    Wow... The last one killed 4 people... and a building inspector was arrested and charged with faking a report saying he'd visited the site after loads of complaints came in. I hope that this isn't a re-run of last time... It makes me sick that people would fake reports about the safety of something like this. Cutting corners disgusts me.
    abbym0308
  • What? Not Again ... Nooooooo , My cousins operate those in NYC I hope they are safe... just found out they are.
    Enjoy_Cannabis
  • Honestly that is horrible. I wonder if there has been any investigation done that would lead to the collapse of the crane? Obviously there are two possibilities: It was because of structural failure, or some caused it whether on accident or purpose.
    sammunster
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here, and here
    A crane collapsed the last time I was in Manhattan a couple months ago. It seems to be happening more and more.

    What's clear is that workers and inspectors need to take greater precautions to ensure that preventable accidents like this don't happen.
    SpookyFish
  • We need more good people in this world. People that aren't slack and look after other people before their wallets.
    ace_ofgabriel
  • This is one of two things, bosses aren't upgrading and trusting old technology. Or safety regulations weren't met and they didn't do what needed to be done this.

    Either way, money has something do with this.
    This is a tradegy.
    KefKef
  • Carelessness. New York has been around for years and has not had so much trouble with cranes as it has in the last couple of months. People who are working with cranes or around cranes should remain focus and their attention on alert.

    It is sad that things like this happen, but the best thing to do is to learn from the mistakes and try hard to not allow such foolishness to happen again.

    Of course people will blame for that makes someone feel better, but I think in situations like these no one truly feels great that it happened, even if it's totally their fault.
    J_Jammer
  • That's sad, I hope that people would build better crane soon.
    D18
    • D18
    • 2 months ago
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  • Guns don't kill people; People kill people.

    Cranes don't kill people; Money lined inspectors and cost-cutting bosses kill people.
    bornfreeid
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    mob-affiliated construction companies paying off inspectors so they can get paid. meanwhile bloomberg, who has spurred new unaffordable construction all throughout the city plays the role of concerned citizen. he laid the groundwork for this to occur by making it easy for his buddies to erect buildings at any cost.
    ultrasur1
  • Things like this are indeed preventable. People need to care more so accidents like this don't happen.
    lifestudentno83
  • Build it up
    Tear it down
    75thDeadMan
  • Living in NYC some years back I remember walking by one of the Trump projects noticing a lot of jackass behavior... throwing sh#t around, cat-calling women on the street... one day a piece of plywood was dropped from many floors up and beheaded a young guy walking to work across the street. A few weeks later a large paint container destroyed a magazine kiosk just before it opened for business. Maybe some changes are needed in the management of high-rise construction crews.
    FrankieFiveCars
  • I agree Frankie! Someone needs to get on their job big time.
    tanyetta
  • You'd think something as dangerous as raising big heavy pieces of metal would be better inspected.
    ipodrulz
  • This is preventable...
    lucky2bme
  • Uh hey guys I'm leaning toward a sabotage theory. Probably another underhanded attempt to bring a flood of new rules and regs to which construction workers will have to comply. Goodness knows there are already way to many. It's just something else to drive up cost and drive the middle man further in the ground.
    flagman
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  • What does the inspection of the failed cranes entail. Is it old equipment or faulty repair? Who were the operators? Did they have anything to do with the failure?
    cibalin
  • Woke up yesterday morning at 8am to the sound of what i thought was a glass breaking in my kitchen. Turns out it was another crane collapsing and raining steel, glass and debris onto the street two blocks from my apartment.
    Another crane collapse in NYC? I like to think that the problem might be something with a manufactured piece or something like that but my gut tells me that incompetence and corner cutting are more likely the cause of yet another tragic accident that could probably have been easily avoided with proper oversight and un-rushed construction schedules.
    I started thinking twice about walking underneath cranes after the last tragic accident here in NYC - but kept on telling myself how silly that was. Frighteningly enough, it now seems that it might not have been so silly after all. The chances seem to be rising everyday for New Yorkers to become a tragic victim of tons of steel crashing down on their heads.
    I think a new system of oversight needs to be implemented...and quickly.
    Fantasiamon
  • Hey freestyletin, that's stupid and you know it!! You don't kill people at their jobs so that you can charge thier bosses more money. All the while stomping middle class workers in the ground. There are some groups out there that would love to have you working for them, with that extremist " the end justifies the means" attitude you have. How Un- American can you be. You just helped prove my point about sabotage being likely.
    flagman

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