Comments on: Crane Collapse Kills 4 At Houston Refinery
Six More Injured In The Accident; 5 Taken To Area Hospitals
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- Hey CBSblogger ****. You have no idea what you speak of. I work for a large refinery and we just got done with similar work with just as large of a crane. You have no idea what kind of independent inspection and procedures are followed before anything is even started not to mention as the work is happening. This has nothing to do with our Government regulation. It has to do with human error or corruption on the local level. IDIOT!
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- Truss analysis should be a major part of any engineering curriculum. These accidents could have been prevented.
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- This represents more of the Bush years of the USA.
Bad times when everything is going to hell in a handbasket because there is no regulation of the laissez fairre capitalists that will do everything on the cheap if given the chance. That is everything from an unnecessary war in Iraq that was fought on the cheap, to a subprime mortgage crisis due to no regulation, to an energy crisis that is due to investors who can control the commodities market for penneys on the dollar, and corrupt trade policies that benefits the Chinese.
Vote for McCain and get 4 more. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe bush will want to invade Texas and get those terrorist.
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BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) strikes again. - Reply to this comment
- There''s no way anyone is gonna get me to believe that these "accidents" are as such. It''s sabotage,.....engineered at that.
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- The fact that this is making news the past few months is great. Being in the industry, upper management is now carefully reviewing and taking extra precaution to make sure this doesn''t happen at their sites.
Regarding the guy with 99.9% statistic..thats silly. And none of them are safe unless used properly - Reply to this comment
- The fact that this is making news the past few months is great. Being in the industry, upper management is now carefully reviewing and taking extra precaution to make sure this doesn''t happen at their sites.
Regarding the guy with 99.9% statistic..thats silly. And none of them are safe unless used properly - Reply to this comment
- Don''t you guys get the big picture here? Crane collapse at an OIL REFINERY. The speculators are going to have "fears" that supply will be "disrupted" and OIL will shoot up 10 dollars a barrel on Monday due to this news... shortly thereafter, we''ll have an announcement of another huge surplus of oil.
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- Years ago, the maximum crane size was limited by the softness of the soil , which is especially softer near Buffalo Bayou where most of the refineries are. The size limit clearly specified that the tons per square foot was a much lower number than most users had hoped for. The modifications needed to improve the size restriction was considered cost restrictive, so the ideas were abandoned in favor of using smaller cranes to perform more lifts that were needed.
I suspect that this very accident has ties to the soil softness under the crane.
Shell even saw this safety limitations of soft soil and built their famous Bullwinkle deep drilling rig in Ingleside, near Corpus Christi.
The Texas San Jacinto monument nearby had a huge challenge to make a single continuous concrete pour for the monument base, but ran into soft soil that limited the amount of concrete carried in each rail car to the pour site. - Reply to this comment
- Maybe bush will want to invade Texas and get those terrorist.
Posted by rharrin1 at 06:23 PM :
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Seriousy.....Don''t take this the wrong way, but seek help. There''s professionals out there that can help you. - Reply to this comment
- Dang how many cranes have collapsed so far this year? There was just a one that killed a couple people in NYC. What''s going on?
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- There lucky they didn''t fall on some major active lines. Could have been a lot more casualties.
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- crane collapse,crane collapse,crane collapse,dollar collapse,crane collapse ..bad omen folks....
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- OK, so WHAT IS GOING ON WITH CRANES IN THIS COUTNRY?
Why are cranes suddenly collapsing all over the place?
Did the Democrats deregulate the crane industry when nobody was looking??? - Reply to this comment
- As a construction contractor myself this is by no means an accident..
it is just plain stupidity of workmen that have no other thought other than wanting to go home and not having the skill to be putting together this kind of crane.
There is no excuse for the city inspector to have signed off on this cause obviously it was not assembled properly. So his job is done hands down.
the other thing there not telling you is that there are illegals putting these cranes together and have no experience in it''s assembly.
Some inspectors will take bribes from contractors
cause they know that a inspector can create hell for them.
in other words tweak the paper work and hope for the best - Reply to this comment
- Another attack of these terrorist cranes? Let''s invade Iran!
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