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Old Posted Mar 14, 2011, 2:44 PM
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Originally Posted by jsr View Post
I'm sure it was, but standing right underneath the thing with a video camera would be the last place I'd feel comfortable. (Remembering the Taipei 101 crane accident)
Yeah, accidents are scary and always a risk in construction, but the Taipei 101 crane was loaded beyond design capacity, didn't account for the wind that day, and the building site already had numerous citations. That's an accident that was preventable.
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