Crane collapse in NYC, a couple of questions.....

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17. The crane company doesn't usually provide the operator. The operator is a union member.

He also made a successful attempt to get the crane to "lie down" along the street, rather than go crashing into buildings.

I'll be the first to say a lot of bullshit goes on in construction in large cities from the board room to the jobsite break area, and the trades are sometimes a part of that. But while it's impossible to eliminate every single human error in construction, union jobsites are demonstrably safer than nonunion, and every person on the site wants to go home alive at the end of the day.