A crane truck lifting a 17-ton enormous concrete pillar overturned and crushed the driver to his death at a private company’s port in Sri Racha.

 

Pol. Capt. Boonlai In-iam was notified of a fatal accident at a private company’s port in the Thung Sukla subdistrict of Sri Racha on August 9th and hurried to the scene with the Sawang Prateep rescue team.

 

A massive crane truck was found sitting on the driver’s cabin with the wheels pointing skyward. Stuck in the crumpled cabin was the male driver Salid Panthong, 49, who was previously trying to lift an enormous concrete pillar weighing 17 tons before the crane lost balance and overturned.

 

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This is why crane drivers (and Banksmen) should be well trained. You should never attempt to lift a load that is beyond the capacity of your Crane, but this means you actually must know the capacity of your crane, including SWL, boom limits, stability limits. 

6 hours ago, Seismic said:

This is why crane drivers (and Banksmen) should be well trained. You should never attempt to lift a load that is beyond the capacity of your Crane, but this means you actually must know the capacity of your crane, including SWL, boom limits, stability limits. 

Quite correct, prior to any heavy lift there should be a lift plan, identifying amongst other things the SWL at various radii which should not be exceeded, it appears that they were trying to complete the lift using a crane that was over its limits. 

Rip to the operator and my deepest condolences to the family who knows what happened as long as he was operating within the chart for that particular crane .sad all around rip sir

Jacks not down or in the wrong place then he was driving a seesaw by the look of it ????Rip

19 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A massive crane truck was found sitting on the driver’s cabin with the wheels pointing skyward. Stuck in the crumpled cabin was the male driver Salid Panthong, 49, who was previously trying to lift an enormous concrete pillar weighing 17 tons before the crane lost balance and overturned.

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7 hours ago, Geoffggi said:

Quite correct, prior to any heavy lift there should be a lift plan, identifying amongst other things the SWL at various radii which should not be exceeded, it appears that they were trying to complete the lift using a crane that was over its limits. 

Yet, the operator ignored the overload audio warning........surely it had not been disabled.........? ????

I was going to pass a comment but it's been  covered by the previous posts.

40 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Yet, the operator ignored the overload audio warning........surely it had not been disabled.........? ????

Well we don't know do we ? Of course apart from the lifting plan there should also have been a risk assessment undertaken as to the placement of the cranes outriggers. It has happen before where the bearing plate for the outrigger, although place on a larger steel pad, simply pushed through into a collapsed drainage pipe and hence toppled.  Let's hope it is not just another one of those incidents where the family of the deceased is given peanuts and the contractor continues as if nothing happened.

15 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Yet, the operator ignored the overload audio warning........surely it had not been disabled.........? ????

It has been done before - You know how annoying that alarm can be .........................LOL

Locally trained no doubt. Lifting safety is woeful here.

 

I have caught workers at my company using cranes and hoists improperly, once I caught them using a truck crane to change a light fixture... the guy was standing on the boom which was extended to reach the light 10 meters above the ground! No harness or anything... 

 

Will lessons be learned from this incident and preventative actions implemented? No chance.

 

RIP to the deceased.