2024-12-22T09:36:02-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150166383/human-error-cited-as-cause-for-deadly-2019-crane-collapse-in-seattle Sean Joyner 2019-10-23T18:43:00-04:00 >2019-10-24T14:21:32-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/e2/e2a6305d03cfa5aa169e5ac6e6a8a81a.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The Washington State Department of Labor and Industries (L&amp;I) announced Thursday that it has cited and fined three contractors a total of $107,200 in relation to April's deadly tower crane collapse at a Google office project. in Seattle. The crash to the street below killed two workers and two people in cars.</p></em><br /><br /><p>According to&nbsp;<em>Construction Dive</em>, the tragic event that <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150134033/collapsing-crane-kills-four-at-new-seattle-google-campus" target="_blank">occurred in April</a>&nbsp;was due to the project "contractors and their workers [ignoring] the manufacturers instructions for dismantling the crane by removing almost all of the tower's pins and sleeves at the same time." It is reported that this weakened the crane and caused it to fall after a 45-mph gust of wind struck it.</p>