For those that are interested in tower crane safety in Singapore here are some important resources:
For those that need some photos to understand how tower crane works here‘s a nice short website (primarily on hammerhead or saddle jib cranes)
Pretty fast response from Ministry of Manpower. Click here for the press release. There’s a large photo of the failed anchors and some basic details.
Can’t resist it… some logical questions on the cause of the collapse:
The list can go on… but I would not want to be drawn too far into this! All the best to the investigators.
Here’s a listing of some other tower crane collapses in recent years:
In addition, www.craneoperator.com has tons of photos on crane mishaps.