Collapsed crane will be taken to the Health and Safety Laboratory in Buxton for testing
The collapsed crane at Forest Hill will be dismantled today and taken for testing at the Health and Safety Laboratory in Buxton after nine weeks on site.
The delays in taking down the crane were caused by extensive talks between inspectors, crane specialists, and main contractor Deco Design & Build about the best way to remove it, after the jib was left hanging near residential streets and the railway line.
The Raimondi LR60 crane collapsed on the residential development in south London at around 10am on 11 December. No one was injured.
Julia Brandreth of the Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group said: 鈥淲e鈥檒l be very interested to know what happened at Forest hill, it鈥檚 very lucky someone wasn鈥檛 killed.鈥�
Two men died after the collapse of a 165ft crane on a Barratt site in Battersea in 2006. Final tests on that crane are expected to finish in March and a report on the incident is due in June.
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