One worker died and another was hospitalized after they fell about 30 ft from a boom lift onto Interstate 95 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. shortly before 11 a.m. on Dec. 5.
Stephen Gollan, battalion chief for Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, says the incident began when a crane on soft ground leaned forward unexpectedly and a pylon on the line fell out of its basket and struck the boom lift. Both the piling and the workers fell to the road surface of I-95.