Fort Lauderdale Double Crane Collapse: What a Load Moment Indicator Can and Cannot Catch

The Fort Lauderdale incident scene: an overturned boom truck on its side in the street, a recovery crane at left and a second company crane at right, behind caution tape

A load moment indicator would have caught one of the two Fort Lauderdale crane failures. It was never built to catch the other. Here is where the line falls — and why saying so plainly is part of the job.

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