Incident: Friday Morning

September 26, 2008 – Castle Hill/Sydney

- 9 Day Old 250t Leibherr Crane (never used)
- $4M price tag
- Failure of back propping beneath the 200mm
thick concrete deck
- Crane support outrigger punches through slab
causing crane to lose balance and collapse
across the site and onto adjoining property
- Crane balanced in the air for approx 1 hour
before entire rig & boom collapse completely
across site and rig falls through to the basement
level.
Amazing that no-one was seriously injured or
killed.