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Two of those running the lift when a giant crane collapsed onto the partly completed Miller Park, killing three workers, say in sworn depositions that tracks on one side of the crane were sinking just before the accident.
Fred Flowers, an operator of the crane when it crashed last July 14, said that “ground failure,” or the sinking of one side of the crane’s tracks, was a key factor in the collapse. He dismissed suggestions that wind gusts of more than 20 m.p.h. were a probable cause.
Alan Watts, a site supervisor at the time of the accident, said that while the load was being balanced and he was moving the crane on its tracks into position for the lift, “we were sinking.”
