Like a scene out of a New York City construction mishap, a crane collapsed while driving pilings for the new section of the bridge being built along side of the current Tappan Zee Bridge. While the likelihood of greater injury existed, only two (an unconfirmed third is possible) people are known to be injured. This was remarkably lucky given the amount of workers and traffic that are regularly on the two bridges. The crane, working from the newly built section, fell across the span between the new and the old bridges and across both the north and south bound lanes of the old bridge.
OSHA inspectors are being dispatched to the scene to initiate an investigation as to what went wrong. There are two people confirmed injured, one construction worker and one motor vehicle passenger. We are still awaiting confirmation on the third possible victim. The County’s Special Operations’ Technical Rescue Team was dispatched along with the Rockland Technical Rescue Team to the scene along with numerous area fire departments and personnel from both sides of the Hudson.
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