The site supervisor for the lead contractor at the site of the 2008 midtown Manhattan crane crash testified today in the manslaughter trial of master rigger William Rapetti and revealed that the doomed crane had experienced a spate of problems starting three months before the accident.
Matthew Katkocin who was running the East 51s Street job site for Joy Contractors, Elizabeth, N.J., was asked to read from the daily work logs that he had taken, revealing a flurry of problems with the crane’s functioning between January 2008 and the collapse, which occurred on March 15.