Seattle lawmakers are pushing for more regulations and bigger fines around the disassembly of tower cranes after a fatal crane collapse last April that was deemed “avoidable,” the Seattle Times ...

Barth, who has been a tower crane operator, inspector and accident investigator for 38 years, said the only safe way to disassemble a tower crane is to do it by sections. First, a line from another ...

A jury awarded more than $100 million Monday to some of the victims of a tower crane collapse that killed four people in Seattle in 2019. Workers were disassembling the 300-foot crane in strong wind ...

The Department of Labor and Industries completed its investigation into what caused a tower crane collapse that killed four people in Seattle’s Lake Union neighborhood in April. Collapsed crane on ...

Legislators in Washington state want to require a permit before companies assemble or disassemble a tower crane. In 2019, four people were killed when a crane fell from the top of a six-story building ...

Experts say it appears workers who were disassembling a construction crane had removed pins securing sections together, and that could explain why it toppled over the weekend, killing four people.

WOODLAND, Washington — Investigators with the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries have opened a huge, multi-pronged investigation into why the crane collapsed in Seattle over the ...