A stormy Sunday afternoon in Dallas with gusts of 70 mph or higher. A tower crane tied to a new apartment building frame tumbles, smashing a completed parking structure behind it. Other sections rip through a completed apartment building, killing 29-year-old Kiersten Symone Smith.
A bad year for crane accidents became worse June 9. On April 27, a tower-crane failure killed two ironworkers and two passersby in Seattle. That accident still is being investigated with a focus on dismantling procedures.