Owner of N.Y. Crane Rigging Co. Indicted on Manslaughter
The owner of the crane rigging company who was involved last March in New York City’s high-rise crane collapse that killed six workers and a woman in a nearby building was indicted yesterday on multiple charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and reckless endangerment.
The crane collapsed as workers were “jumping” the crane or installing new sections to the crane so it could extend higher as construction work continued. Workers were attaching a six-ton collar to the crane to anchor it to the 18th floor of the building.
Before installation was complete, the slings holding the collar broke and the collar fell, pancaking two other support collars and leaving the crane unattached to the building. The crane then toppled backward across the street, damaging a 19-story apartment and demolishing a four-story town house.
