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PowerPoint: Crane Toppling Incident

Summary of Incident:

At about 1330 hrs, Saturday, December 20, 2008, a 70 ton Grove Crane toppled whilst it was being brought into operation for the loading of pipe spools.

The crane operator jumped out of his cabin as the crane fell to the ground and neither the crane operator not other workers in the vicinity were inured. Click here  for a PowerPoint Presentation of the details of the incident.

Heidi

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