[Yanni]

Originally Posted by weirdlikethat ↗

I REMEMBER THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DRIVING I-94 WB with my mom when I SEEN IT FALL. i told her the "blue thingy" fell on the building and of course she didnt believe me untill she seen the newsthe next day! i think 5 ppl died.......

mm. maybe...
for years i swore that i saw AA flight 191 crash in real time as well, like, actually saw the airplane roll over, and disappear behind buildings followed by a fireball.
but, in reality i eventually came to accept that the news articles/photos, television broadcasts and overall community shock influenced me to believe that.
this is not an uncommon phenomenon for people in proximity to a shocking or spectacular event...which is why "eyewitness accounts" are so often invalid.
...as far as the airline disaster i mentioned, i did however see the mushroom cloud not too many seconds after it happened, as i was playing outside in an empty field with a largely unobstructed view.


the human mind is not to be trusted.

lastly: you saw it fall, not "YOU SEEN IT FALL!".



left engine tore off immediately after takeoff; fuel leaking out of wing, catastrophic failure of hydraulic assisted control surfaces:

[OhJstFkOffAlrdy]

What the fuck, Milwaukee? You couldn't keep Dahmer from eating people, and now this. Get your shit together, goddammit.

[EMason88]

oldie but goodie

[Menalipa]

What a waste of time, labor, and lives.

[gringo1965]

Originally Posted by 0300_infantry ↗

The Big Blue was a Lampson LTL-1500 Transi-Lift heavy lift crawler crane that collapsed on July 14, 1999, killing three Ironworkers.

I live in Michigan,, ( Union territory ), and
Wisconsin is ( Union Territory ) as well..
Which makes this type of commercial
jobsite event very,very rare.
Big money lost right there.

[PhognaBologna]

3 people died… it was the 3 Ironworkers observing from the crows nest beyond the blue crawler

[houseoftechno]

Looking at the vid, because Big Blue tipped to the side, my guess was the ground caved in under the left outrigger. Wind often tips cranes, but I discounted wind because the load was not swaying in the video.

A writeup of the wrongful death suit confirms that jury found that the wind blew it over. The structure being hoisted 300' above the ground acted like a wind sail, and the wind up there was gusting 30mph.

REFLECTIONS ON THE ACCIDENT AT
MILLER PARK AND THE PROSECUTION
OF WORK-RELATED FATALITIES
IN WISCONSIN
EDWARD A. FALLoNE*
I. THE ACCIDENT AT MILLER PARK
On July 14, 1999, a large construction crane known as "Big Blue"
collapsed as workers rushed to complete the new home of the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team in time for the 2000 season.' Jeffrey Wischer,
William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr died when Big Blue fell into the
partially constructed stadium during a lift, dropping a 450-ton section of
the ballpark's retractable roof.2 The three ironworkers had been guiding
the roof section into place from an aerial basket suspended from a separate crane.3 They were killed when the collapse of Big Blue knocked
their own basket to the ground. The accident caused approximately $100
million in damage to the partially completed structure and delayed the
completion of the project for one year.4 The widows of the three men
brought a wrongful death suit against the company that leased Big Blue
and its crew to the construction site, Lampson International Ltd., as well
as against the company responsible for constructing the retractable roof
of the stadium, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.5

During construction, the roof sections were first assembled outside of
the stadium. The procedures followed by Mitsubishi called for the sections to be lifted by the crew of Big Blue to a height of approximately
330 feet, rotated over the outer wall of the stadium and any previously
installed roof sections, and lowered into place at a height of 230 feet.6
On the day of the accident, the crane had been moved into place for the
lift on its tank-like tracks. The surface area of the section of roof being
lifted by Big Blue that day was equivalent to three and one half wings of
a 747 airliner.7 These dimensions made the roof section act like a sail in
the wind, exerting pressure on the crane's boom and ultimately tipping
the crane.8

At trial, expert witnesses placed the maximum safe wind speed for an
attempted lift of a roof section of this size at eleven miles per hour.9 The
plaintiffs introduced testimony indicating that wind gusts at the top of
the stadium construction site reached thirty miles per hour on the day of
the accident. There was also testimony to the effect that several ironworkers had expressed concern about the wind prior to the lift."° Both
plaintiff's attorneys and co-defendant Lampson International argued
that the accident occurred because Mitsubishi Heavy Industries failed toproperly monitor wind gusts on the day of the lift and ignored warnings
that conditions were unsafe.

Mitsubishi, for its part, argued in defense that it was Lampson International's responsibility to monitor wind speed.' Mitsubishi also argued
during the trial that Lampson International failed to provide Mitsubishi
with clear or sufficiently detailed warnings concerning the effect of wind
speed on suspended loads.' 2 Finally, Mitsubishi introduced testimony
that blamed the accident on contributing factors in addition to the wind
conditions, such as unstable soil underneath the crane and on a defect in
the crane's assembly that left Big Blue susceptible to collapse.'

[PhognaBologna]

3 people died, all iron workers observing from a crows nest. All three of their statues stand outside of Miller Park.