AvE was right. Pins pulled way to early.

Me: "Ah, volume is low. Better turn it way up" 0:27: "...AND THE MOBILE CRANE OPERATOR!!" 😳

So the early theories on this one were correct. Quadruple sad because it was entirely preventable.

Crazy level of incompetence. Mismanagement kills innocent people in that line of work.

Whoever thought "Hey, we should pull all the pins for dismantling all at once" is going to have to live with this for the rest of their lives. They are responsible for the deaths of four people. Such a shame. All because they couldn't just slow down and pull pins a section at a time (as you would logically think it should be done for safety).

The kid in me wants to play with that model crane so badly.

the first clear video shown on the news the days it happened, I noticed the pins connecting the sections were missing and told my wife...... good job Brian!

unbelievable this could've 100% been avoided...

Imagine driving a car right after you took out the lug nuts. Does that make sense to you? Lol

OK, I am not a crane disassembler, I don't even play one on TV, BUT it would never make sense to me to pull bolts and pins on sections not ready to be lifted by the assist crane. Never mind manufactures suggestions, just rudimentary knowledge of physics says this is a bad idea. If the thing was lying on the ground, sure...standing? No way. I would have said something and/or walked of the site...preferably in a direction perpendicular to the prevailing wind.

Not reading the manufacturer's instructions, will get you in trouble just assembling a bookshelf.

why is the audio so low?

In this section we find the usual pearls of wisdom from the Captain Obvious Brigade

Nobody is in anyone’s pocket. The dismantling team had a bad case of “get home itis” Not unlike many deceased private pilots.

We were taking our crane down that day, north, Vancouver B.C, and had the same winds ( except in km/h) We had to shut down. You didnt hear about us on the news. We did review our procedures. Brothers dies that day. So did 2 who happened by. Sad. Truly sad.

Wow. Just sad. Turns out reading the instructions is important... Totally avoidable.

It’s crazy. It seems to me that a foreman from the crane services company should be directing every step of the operation. Who was in charge here?

When he said they started removing the pins...I said ahhh sh!t. They still had a problem above yet they started removing the pins!!?? Who TF was in charge of that dumbass decision??!!😩😓

I love that miniature

Why is the volume so low with out headphones in the beginning you could barely hear anything

Seems like they were in the middle of dismantling the crane when they were shut down due to heavy wind, they basically stopped in the middle of the tear down leaving the crane unprepared to handle the wind, also I have no ideas why two iron workers were left on top of the crane with most of the pins taken out and 50mph wind gusts, someone has to pay for this, this wasn’t an accident.

That taxi crane operator probably got his ass chewed for not checking his chart and setting up the crane within the right radius the first time, those things don't go unnoticed.

The amount of fines handed out are a straight up joke. The same company that was taking this crane apart is the same one that put up the one that fell over in Bellevue.

He mentions a 60mph gust. In the accident video, several trees a block away look completely undisturbed around the time of the fall. It's possible the buildings and such dissipated the gust at lower altitudes, but I feel like there should have been at least some movement in those trees. Sounds like pure negligence, not weather.

OMG man do you know where the volume slider is in the edit software?

In the police video one of the construction workers tried saying it was just windy & that blew it away they forgot to mention that they took out the pins too early smh Worried about themselves instead of telling the truth to help the fallen victims & there family

Sad this was entirely preventable. I first heard the term Normalization of Deviance in the investigation of aircraft accidents, it sees to fit here also.

This is what happens when proper work procedures are not followed.

I agree , but this man hasn't been on a tower crane going up or down. I have started takeing bolts out once the upper crane was off . Then with straight up tower sections we would remove all but two bolts or pins ,we would stay one section ahead of the hook . The operator says wind is to high , we stopped.

Proof that saving time can cost you your life. Anybody that knows anything about cranes in general knew exactly how this happened the moment the video was first shown on tv. I did. My guess when I first saw it,...They pulled the pins to save time. Guess what, i was right.

Criminal negligence, people died, and yet NO JAIL TIME. So sad.

No volume.

What where they thinking? Take the pins out of just the section that is to be removed. All out makes for hapless employees not knowing anything.

Most crazy thing about all this, if you were one of the workers that were injured on this crane accident. You just lost your rights. Very true, you can not sue your employer for Negligence because the are protected by the (MAFIA) L&I . Yes this is true, and you lost your wage even though the company was at fault for removing pins before section was ready to be disassembled. And you can not sue L&I for poor treatment on your recovery care. People wake up. You are not safe at work.

Right off the bat, it sounds like there were WAY too many different companies involved in the dismantling.

And that's what happens when you try to work ahead of the process.

when the swing cab assembly could not be removed all work should have stopped you would think. and then to go ahead and pull 50 pins out all the way down the tower assembly just sounds insane. I can't believe that would ever be done as a common practice in some situations, its such a massive structure to take chances with.

It was windy that day and they were trying to take down the crane... people were on the crane when it collapsed, hitting cars down below...

I can’t believe they did that it’s super hard to knock those pins out from the bottoms With all that pressure from the upper sections from my experience is super difficult to do talk about doing the wrong thing forcefully smh 🤦‍♀️

"I wanna wear a tie, but I don't want people to see it."

How do they make these model cranes? Do they just buy it from the store or they make it themselves?

safe to say whoever pulled those pins ain’t ever allowed back on a construction site again.

Actually just by knowing how these types of jobs work. The question is who owns the mobile crane? If the had to rent the mobile crane to come in and take down the tower crane. I would put money on it someone didn’t wanna have to rent the mobile crane for another day and they wanted the tower down so they took all of them out to save money. I’ve seen unsafe things happen several occasions because of trying to save money on a piece of equipment they were renting. But you kill 4 people in the process you are saving time or money.

Big lawsuits coming down.

Looks like someone became complacent Moral of the Story slow down 1 man in charge calling the shots everything done in sequence, Competent Rigging crew who value their lives should only work in this game.

Someone forgot to turn on the audio.

A silly question: If this crane is a self assembling crane; in the fact that it adds sections to itself, why was it not disassembled the same way? By doing that, are you not reducing the risk of something going wrong?

Was there a race or deadline to finish? Usually there's a suggested time to dismantle a crane, but getting ahead at what cost?

So when the cab got stuck because they didn’t read the manufacturer instructions they decided to remove all the pins in mean time because they can’t have guys standing around waiting for the wind to ease up,that’s asinine.

Here's why I always like being WAY WAY away from these things. Few people I even trust w dumb things on my car...

Justice had better be served on this.

I wonder what Ave would say.

Be nice to HEAR

Its happens more the once..

Crazy

It’s 2020 why do we have loud ass cameras

Did Google pay for any restitutions for the brave victims?

Knock the hinge pins and door latch out of your car doors and drive the car on the interstate.

Only a few words to explain the impact of removing the pins early but went on and on about how the wind played it's part. WE ALL SAW THE VID. Minimal windage.

Did that guy look in the mirror in the morning before he picked out his tie?

Why would you remove pins for the lower part of the crane at the same time you're moving the top part of the crane even a two-year-old knows it's going to collapse.

What if the crane identified as a horse before the collapse???

So glad I can hear his belt!

So - have arrests been made. If not - why not?

such bad sound

So did ave say the pins were pulled out or never got put in?

It’s all about profit/ money, the lads taking it down would have been under pressure by the bosses

Can't hear it !!

A bit silly to remove the pins 😦😦

So they removed the pins at the bottom of the crane, FIRST!?!

What a joke, they bring this out to tell how the riggers did it wrong, when do they ever come out with an investigation result when it's the builders fault, or engineers fault? Where the results of the tower collapse in Sydney August 2017?

The end is cutoff..... but almost 50 pins removed....... who is accountable? What is being done ?

People do stupid things with cranes all the time they think it’s ok to work of plan

AUDIYOOOOOOO

Sounds like a regular practice in England too,cowboys cutting corners and lack of proper training, could name a few cowboys in England and Scotland ,best say no more ,they know who they are themselves. 🏗🏗🏗🙈🙈

Lives are only worth 150,000, what an evil world. Tower cranes are all faulty in their structural design, yet engineers with help from slaves can build the tallest towers/sky scrapers in the world and not fall down. Seriously tower cranes need to be built with way more steel and be much wider in width and foundation. I'm no structural engineer though anyone knows that building a single column of bricks to a given height threshold is the most unstable structure possible. All large height cranes need to be several widths wider, with an even wider foundation structure with several tied supports to be anywhere near safe, just as the tallest building are engineered. Until this happens in tower crane design, all tower crane manufacturers have a serious flawed design waiting to fall.

Haste makes Waste

We no they made a big mistake with out pins the whole thing is unstable

0:27 nice earrape

This is the result of “GET IT DONE GET IT DONE GET IT DONE!!! DO U HAVE ANY IDEA HOW FAR BEHIND WE ARE ON THE UNATTAINABLE SCHEDULE THAT WON US THE JOB?????”

So they were in a hurry

I get that this is an important conference. But I highly doubt it needed that many pictures taken by the guy in the front.. he must have taken like 1000 pics during this talk 😂😂

This is just insane. Lets separate the fact they are endangering other people. But just think about it. They themselves are around a crane that’s not bolted together. Every crane disassembled I’ve ever seen. You add a section step #2 Bolt it. Once it’s bolted then you add another. These tower structures are not very strong at all. They are only strong if everything is in place as one. It’s like taking a long noodle uncooked of course. Stand a piece up on a table and push on the top. It takes a tiny amount of pressure to snap it. Take the noodle and cut a 1” piece of noodle and try breaking it. It takes a lot of pressure. That’s why the tower segments are very short. It’s the same concept. If you tried to put one long solid tower structure up with no segments. It would be like that long noodle. It would take a tiny amount of force to snap it in half. But unbolting segments like this is suicide. Then leaving it to kill someone else. This is criminal!

Can’t hear the good

What they didn't check twice for safety provisions on every foreman that gets hired for the job

Horrible camera work!

L&I is covering for the company's hear! it's sad to see so many people in the pocket of theses big companies there needs to be accountability

Next

Poorly done video with the audio too low.

Haha preliminary pissed off youtube guy was right

No1~G.No2~F~No3？~謝謝~♡♡♡♡

audio sucks

All this is, this guy talking.

3:14 please just stick to what you know, you're making us engineers cringe

Should somebody tell them about PowerPoint? I find those printed out pictures quite impressive but a bit funny to be honest.

we are people just like you. we are all ugly inside just like me. Rarely are beautiful unless we know someones watching. This was not done in Malice, the choice was made with painstaking consideration I am certain. The man who made the last call in the chain of events that has brought us here to cast our pius judgments is a brother ironworker of mine. as were the two deceased. very few can imagine his path to that decision. He without a doubt trusted his brother ironworkers with his life every day. Just like Travis and Andrew did. you have to. You could have caught your partner with your wife last week but once on the iron you put your well being in their hands the moment you leave the last floor all the other trades are limited to. our job is often hair raising, rarely boring. but being the push, it is always terrifying when your calling the shots day in and day out. Then one day you make a judgment call that turns into another then another you find yourself in a position where you can not turn back from. Then the next judgment call everything works out. everyone goes home to their families. then one judgment call costs everyone everything. Except one. He needs compassion the most .

Ironworkers fault

It was an intentional event

When your brain is floating in beer and your rushing to get more beer bad things can happen.

My god. The audio is horrendous. RIP my eardrums. Please re-render.