{"id":29373,"date":"2023-07-27T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=29373"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T10:50:28","slug":"the-wednesday-collapsed-cranes-operator-in-nyc-also-involved-in-2008-fatal-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/29373","title":{"rendered":"The Wednesday collapsed crane&#8217;s operator in NYC, also involved in 2008 fatal accident??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK: The man who was at the helm of the crane that caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan\u2019s Hudson Yards Wednesday once had his operating license suspended after a co-worker plummeted 48 stories to his death, New York Post reported on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It said that the Department of Buildings identified Chris Van Duyne of Rockaway, New Jersey, as the man who was operating a construction crane that snapped and struck a neighboring building before smashing onto the street below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_29376\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29376\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/new-york-times.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/new-york-times-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/new-york-times-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/new-york-times.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Courtesy: New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite verifying Van Duyne was the operator, the DOB said records didn\u2019t list the 62-year-old man on the construction paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>The DOB couldn\u2019t say whether the omission was unusual and said they were looking into it.<\/p>\n<p>Van Duyne, along with his older brother James Van Duyne, temporarily lost their tower-crane operators\u2019 licenses in September 2008 after a crane rigger fell from a platform<\/p>\n<p>The construction crane caught fire and partially collapsed in the heart of Manhattan on Wednesday morning, sending commuters fleeing for their lives as rubble rained down onto the streets below.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out at around 7.30am ET on a crane on a building under construction along W 41st St and 10th Avenue, close to Hudson Yards.<\/p>\n<p>Bystander footage showed the top of the crane alight before it suddenly collapsed, crashing into a building opposite where it appeared to smash several windows. New Yorkers in the streets below were seen running away from the carnage.<\/p>\n<p>Two construction workers told The Independent about the \u201cterrifying\u201d moment the building they were working in was suddenly struck by the crane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re walking down the stairs and that\u2019s when you hear the boom, boom, boom,\u201d Alexander, a construction worker who only wished to be identified by his first name, told The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve people \u2013 nine civilians and three firefighters \u2013 were injured in the collapse, the FDNY told CNN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: The man who was at the helm of the crane that caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan\u2019s Hudson Yards Wednesday once had his operating license suspended after a co-worker plummeted 48 stories to his death, New York Post reported on Thursday. It said that the Department of Buildings identified Chris Van Duyne of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29377,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29373\/revisions\/29377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}