Interesting legal angle on Miami crane collapses-11th Cir blocked local regs: No public safety issue

Interesting legal angle on Miami crane collapses. 11th Cir blocked local regs, said no public safety issue


Two cranes at Miami construction sites have snapped in Irma’s howling winds
BY DAVID SMILEY, DOUGLAS HANKS, JOEY FLECHAS AND NICHOLAS NEHAMAS
nnehamas@miamiherald.com


The boom of a crane at an under-construction apartment building in downtown Miami bent and collapsed in Hurricane Irma’s heavy winds around 10:30 a.m. Sunday.

Hours later, the winds brought down a second crane at a condo tower in Miami’s Edgewater neighborhood, roughly two miles north. A video posted on Twitter showed its boom dangling above the unfinished tower.

Link to tweet