Considering the work they do in the places they operate, I'm kind of amazed they manage to kill only 90 people a year. While it certainly is a tragedy, the poli

Considering the work they do in the places they operate, I'm kind of amazed they manage to kill only 90 people a year. While it certainly is a tragedy, the politicians kind of make it sound like the companies are being purely and unnecessarily penny-pinchy to not have the cranes taken down when things get rough, yet in the same article the author points out that is sometimes a multi day/week process. That doesn't affect just the construction company, it's also a ton of lost productivity for the workers involved, and disassembling the crane during said conditions could be dangerous itself. I was a kid growing up in Wisconsin when Big Blue fell, I remember the news coverage vividly and we took a drive down to Milwaukee that weekend to see it. Crazy stuff to think a machine that huge could fail (as a kid anyway).