Edited by Rowena Davis

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“Today’s Equipment has too many Shades of Gray,” Engineering News Record. July 3, 2006

Section entitled “Other Crane Hazards” and is several bullets down. The text is in the bullet that begins, “Self-raising mobile tower crane systems are often hazardous and require following a very complicated procedure.”

This lack of distinction has caused confusion and stifled the use of self-erecting tower cranes in California. A tower crane collapse in San Francisco that killed five people and injured 21, following two tower crane collapses in 1981 and 1985 in Los Angeles, sparked statewide regulations that now require a permitting process to erect a “tower crane.”