That bit looks heavy. I would imagine the driver heard it when it went.
Assuming no injuries occurred, wouldn’t fancy it appearing in the lane in front of me.
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Looks like a counter-weight dropped off.
Well boss…. you know you said there would be lots of waiting around?…..
The world and his dog will want to get involved in that.
Questions will be asked!
A good advert to wear steel capped boots.
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Don’t forget the hard hat
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With your name on it, so the body can be identified.
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With hard hard safety boots n clean hiviz top your safe from everything.
I was trying to decide if its broken because it fell off, or if it fell off because it was broken.
Is a daily vehicle check for a crane driver cover the crane aspect, I guess so similar to checking a tail lift, unless that comes into play before being used for lifting.
As I understand it the counterweights are normally secured with pins, that have safety clips on them.
Many (dunno about the one in the incident) cranes can add or lose weights themselves.
If a Lynch pin was left off, and if the securing pin(s) worked loose during driving? Seems unlikely, but possible?
Could the securing pins have been fitted correctly, but had excess wear or failed for other reasons?
A thick cast iron weight failing structurally? If there was a fault in the casting process, I guess it is also possible, but unlikely.
From one photo it is all speculation, but more incidents happen because of human error, often multiple errors, than anything else.
I would guess that inspecting all of the parts will give an answer to what thing(s) went wrong.