[svandamme]

The governement safety post mortem came to the conclusion that

High cranes were not stable enough on pontoons (No sjit sherlock)


And it all got screwed up because the City had not mandated a safety plan to the builder because they didn't think they were responsible for the safety.

The Builder didn't think it was the responsible party for the safety because they had subcontracted it to the crane company, and figured they would do the necessary.

the crane company had subcontracted the pontoons and figured those were stable enough and had pretty much calculated everything without any margins or consideration for basic things like wind and extra gear put on the deck of the pontoons.


If you ask me they are a bunch of morons because even a single crane on such a pontoon would be screwed for any kind of lateral movement and these morons did a double crane lift..

I'm not engineer but even I could have told em up front that **** would not work.

120 foot cranes on a floating 40 foot wide pontoon and they had not even told neigbours to clear the area?? They got very lucky nobody got injured or killed.