Plan in place to lift crashed crane off city centre apartments
A PLAN detailing how a 200ft crane will be removed from a city centre rooftop will be signed off by senior health and safety inspectors today.
Principal inspector Wayne Crumpton said the operation will be like a giant “game of Pick-up-Stix” because of its fiendish complexity.
Last night, three other cranes were at the Chandlers Wharf site preparing to swing into action.
One will be used to secure the damaged crane, another to lower workmen into place – who will use blow torches to cut through the metal structure – and the last will carry the severed sections away.
The crane collapsed and bent over backwards on Monday, throwing the driver from his cab.
It crashed into two apartment blocks in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle and remains wrapped over numbers 24 and 26, in Cornhill.
A five-tonne counterweight also punched its way through five storeys and into the building’s sub-basement, crushing the main stairwell and lift shaft.
