Investigators are trying to determine why a crane collapsed at the site of a South Florida residential construction project, killing a construction worker and damaging a neighboring house. Christopher J. Ricci, 27, of Sunrise, Fla., was struck by the crane's boom and died instantly in the June 12 accident, a police spokeswoman says.
DLS Prestressed Inc., Pompano Beach, Fla., was using the lattice-boom truck crane, which was riding on rubber tires, to install piling for construction of a two-story, single-family home in a residential neighborhood in Hallandale Beach, Fla. It was being moved on the site with the boom raised and carrying a drill-rig attachment.