Crane collapse kills three at Ohio bridge site(Toledo)

Detroit Free Press ^ | February 17, 2004

[Las Vegas Dave]

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- A 1,000-ton construction crane piecing together a new interstate bridge collapsed and narrowly missed toppling onto a busy highway below. Three workers were killed and five were injured.

The steel structure landed between the northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 280, which splits inside the construction zone. The tip of the crane came to rest just on the edge of the highway.

[KS Flyover]

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[zook]

My family and I just drove through there yesterday morning! This stretch of highway has been under construction for 10 years, it seems.

[KS Flyover]

The crane, which streches above bridge supports and lifts concrete sections of the roadway into place, was moving at the time it collapsed, but it was not hoisting any materials, said Joe Rutherford, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging..


Crane accident photos, (I have passed through this construction site many times in the last year, as we visited Henry Ford Museum/Greenfield village in Dearborn.) This is one MONSTER crane!

[MikeD]

I know it's been under construction since at least 1997, when I drove through en route to Michigan State.

I knock Michigan roads a lot, but at least they had an incentive program to get the construction done early.

MD