Crane piece falls, kills 2 workers
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A section of construction crane plummeted 30 floors at the site of a high-rise condominium in Miami, killing two workers and smashing into a home that the contractor used for storage, police said.
Five other workers were injured, one critically, at the site of the 40-plus-story luxury condo tower on Biscayne Bay just 10 days after a similar accident in New York killed seven people.
The part that fell was a 20-foot section workers had been raising to extend the equipment’s reach, Miami fire rescue spokesman Ignatius Carroll said. The crane’s main vertical section was intact.
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