Thanks for watching, check out me other bits! My new Album: madebyjohn.bandcamp.com/album/now-thats-the-glades-94 Outro Song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJakz6yDiNS5gMo.htmlsi=2_i6bKZUj3bjixzw Instagram: instagram.com/plainly.john/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/Plainlydifficult Merch: plainly-difficult.creator-spring.com Twitter:twitter.com/Plainly_D Sources: web.archive.org/web/20080409151807/curbed.com/archives/2008/03/20/crane_collapse_arrest.php www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/2019-12/2008_r_02.pdf

@emilyelizabethbuchanan998

2 ай бұрын

Hey you should check out the Ghent West Virginia Little General Store explosion and collapse in 2007! Lots of negligence, poor decisions, lack of training, etc. (Channel staples). Not a high-profile event and few deaths/injuries but worth looking into.

@BasedFrequency

2 ай бұрын

Sweet, lassic vaporwave/mallsoft must live on

@aldenconsolver3428

2 ай бұрын

Well I have been thinking about sending you a few pounds anyway and getting that card would be kinda cool. I am retired and doing my own stuff now but what you say is still relevant to anyone with potentially difficult work to do. I could put it right next to my beloved quote from Robert Pirsig "The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself'." "The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself. Working on a motorcycle, working well, caring, is to become part of a process, to achieve an inner peace of mind. The motorcycle is primarily a mental phenomenon." Both supply the rational thinking man with tools to accomplish great things while avoiding great disasters.

@rrai1999

2 ай бұрын

Damn, that cassette sold out fast!

@-laydeeintrigue-

2 ай бұрын

John, I know it's not disaster related, but if you release bingo cards, you should put precipitation related London weather! I always wait uniltil the end to hear if it's raining in your corner of London! 😅

A corrupt NYC official? Shocked, shocked I say.

@debbieannsmith8962

2 ай бұрын

I know, right....?

@David_Phantom

2 ай бұрын

Was the "shocked" a reference to one of the Con Edison scandals?

@truhhhhhhhokIII3

2 ай бұрын

Wasnt this before or after gulliani was taking bribes from the rich?

@soaphelps

2 ай бұрын

the unions really worked hard like they always do.

@MonkeyJedi99

2 ай бұрын

Do you have any idea how common it is for municipal inspectors of simple 1 and 2-story homes to not bring even a ladder and a flashlight? Or even get out of their car? I have no doubt that an inspector who is tasked with walking a high-rise would slack off and lie about it.

If you made the bingo card look a bit cleaner and more professional, it would make a *FANTASTIC* workplace safety poster. No joke.

@railgap

2 ай бұрын

I hadn't even thought of that, you're right.

@hollieBlu303

Ай бұрын

Petition to make John head of EVERYTHING! ...love this guy's videos. His music is pretty sick too

I rig and lift things weekly. Inspecting your equipment, protecting soft slings against corners, not overloading your gear and having a safety margain are all critical rules. And they were all broken here, on a routine job, rigging a known weight. Complacency breeds contempt.

@brianbarrett2487

2 ай бұрын

I just made a similar comment. Everything about that day was done wrong =/ These are jobs teens and green workers are going to get.

@jamesbrown8780

2 ай бұрын

I'm an excavator operator, it's now seared Into my mind to check and triple check lifting attachments! I had a 5.2T rated and tagged hook and shackle on my digger and while we were slewing the load the hook bent! Went from looking like the usual hook to a near straight shank... that particular lift was weighed at 700KG.... the metallic twang went it released all that weight under tension turned every single head on site! I have photos of the hook and load

@BType13X2

2 ай бұрын

ditto I have other questions though like if they didn't want to use 8 slings to do this job why not increase the size of the slings to a 4" or a 6" and use kevlar sling savers around them. Slings are fairly cheap they are like 2$ per " increase in thickness per foot. eg. if a 6' long 2" sling is around 40$'s. a 6" sling is around 80$'s. Is there a reason to use small slings? I assume it has to do with clearances and binding. Otherwise if the guys don't wanna take the time to rig up 8 slings to hoist a collar I would offer that solution or recommend they use .75" steel cables.

@loganmeline9233

2 ай бұрын

And it breeds democratic voters.

@Rescoase

2 ай бұрын

elastic?

Falsifying an inspection AFTER an accident. An accident is certain to create scrutiny. That's a special kind of dumb.

@60sSam

2 ай бұрын

"Big City Stupid" as the saying goes. Course it doesn't apply just to big cities, but still.

@tncorgi92

2 ай бұрын

I suspect it had become a regular practice of his, and he just pencil whipped the report because he'd always gotten away with it before.

@russellhltn1396

2 ай бұрын

@@tncorgi92 True. Maybe he didn't recognize it was an accident site.

@pjodron

19 күн бұрын

this is so bloody stuiped that i have to ask if not PD said it wrong.

Crane disasters are so frustrating. In retrospect, the cause is almost always "crew didn't follow instructions" with a followup of "management didn't care about safety". You'd think after decades of the exact same failures, we'd learn something.

@fritzfxx

2 ай бұрын

They've learned how to get the blue collar workers of the USA to hate safety regulations that protect them so they can make more money Thank a Republican

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

They get away with it til they don't. In some like the crane collapse if gets high enough in NYC gets a big wind shear event down it and the crane operator housing crashes to the street below.

@dcvariousvids8082

2 ай бұрын

If a company employs bean-counters, there’ll always be that erg to save a bit more. The greater the expected expenditure, the greater the erg. And bean-counters get a raise if they save money.

@vangelisgru7271

2 ай бұрын

I wouldnt happen to me (theory)😊

We don't mind your plugs at all John. I think someone being able to fulfill and expand their creative desires is one of the most beautiful things ever :)

@PlainlyDifficult

2 ай бұрын

Thank you I really appreciate it!

@choossuck7653

24 күн бұрын

Actually I wont watch another video

As a.former concert rigger the rule has always been if the gear is in question throw it out. This is a job where mistakes cost lives. So sad for the lives lost in this avoidable collapse.

@RolfLongreach

2 ай бұрын

I used to work in the kitchen, and we had a saying, "When in doubt. Throw it out."

Hi, Plainly! A physical bingo card that is dry erase or has that type of surface would be super cool!

I remember this. Yould be surprised how many corners are cut during construction. It's impressive how often they get away with it too.

@anteshell

2 ай бұрын

You can always get away with forging documents and cutting corners until make something to raise wrong (or right by legal standpoint) person's eyebrows. Most OSHA-violations are just "part and parcel" of the job and are handled as such, but a falling crane is not anymore. Saying this as nothern European, this kind of indifference seems to be engrained to US culture, which is exactly why there are for example so many jokes about "insufferable co-workers freaking out from not following every safety rule to the letter" in American media. That kind of jokes simply do not exist in my culture.

@krissteel4074

2 ай бұрын

I don't have any problem with working within the rules when it comes to working at heights, but there's just so much that can go wrong there's just not enough wriggle room to fudge much. People can complain that it takes too long except I don't really buy into that side of the business because you know what's really going to take a long time? A complete stop work when someone's job ends up being investigated by the work-safety organisation of the country you're in and quite frankly- most of them get paid by the hour anyway!

@Girraficusthewise

2 ай бұрын

@anteshell pretty much nailed it on the head. Companies build violations and wrongful death settlements into their budgeting, so when it happens, they write the check, and move on. Remember Ford in the 70's with the Pinto? Ford did a Cost Benefit Analysis and found fixing the problem to be more expensive then just letting their customers die, and paying out the settlement. So they didn't fix the issue.

@UncleKennysPlace

2 ай бұрын

Yep. Most things are built by the low bidder, so ...

@nerdygoth6905

2 ай бұрын

​@@anteshellthe HSE (Health and Safety Executive) here in the UK sometimes get lambasted by the press, but usually it's media distortion. Checking the story often shows the ridiculed decision wasn't made by the HSE or has had to be introduced because of sheer stupidity.

I would absolutely buy physical bingo cards 😂 as horrible as these disasters are, i love seeing how common certain themes are.

@MrGoesBoom

2 ай бұрын

Times change, tech changes, the place or culture changes...people, people don't really change

In high school, I had a rather quirky mathematics teacher. He had a booming voice, and a golden ruler, which he would throw so it would land on the floor next to a student he wanted to deal with. It was pretty common for him to throw the ruler, hold up a piece of home work and shout "STUDENT! What is this? How many times have I told you: When all else fails: FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS!"

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

2 ай бұрын

Our high school math teacher used to throw whiteboard markers at us lol It certainly helped us pay attention.

@paulsaulpaul

2 ай бұрын

My high school math teacher refused to allow them to replace his chalkboard with a markerboard or a smartboard. Most teachers had markerboards by then (2000-2001). He joked that the marker fumes made him high. I would sometimes put his chalk in his eraser between the cracks in the material and it would leave a mark on the board when he erased. He would throw the chalk across the room at me.

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

How strange we had a maths teacher in sixth grade who would throw chalk at boy students for not paying attention. Didn't realize it was a thing math teachers do.

@pollodustino

2 ай бұрын

In my college auto shop class the instructor would drop a valve cover next to your seat or whack your desk with an antenna mast if he caught you sleeping.

@georgeplagianos6487

2 ай бұрын

​​@@WouldntULikeToKnow.Man I love our well seasoned teachers back then. Getting all chalked up on your clothes or hair was like a Scarlet letter to indicate that were losers. Those were the good olde days

I find myself regularly doubting architecture in my town, being on my guard for the sounds of bent metal and falling insulation. The fear of radioactive junk passing through my hands while I sort unknown metals and sometimes am instructed to bend it when unsure, seeing the dust shoot off. Random cracks in buildings in the shopping mall that haven't changed in decades but every time I pass by I could swear the cracks grew another millimeter... I blame you. I'm sure one day it'll save my life xD thanks bud.

@jonathanschadenfreude9603

2 ай бұрын

In chittenden county vermont the university of vermont and the hospital its attached to are "doing exactly this" as we watch this video.....for profit hospitals that care nothing about patients actual care and a college charging 70k per kid for some overly emotional "educator" to send them out to the real world to get eaten alive by reality. Def not until their families have dumped hundreds of thous of dollars mistakenly into a lie. They then use that funding to displace locals and move in folks who have no interest in being here, they just want the lies the hospital has told them to come true....good luck! SICK skullduggery by scumbags who are hell bent on destruction

@truhhhhhhhokIII3

2 ай бұрын

Are you ok? Does anyone understand what mans is trying to say?

@haley746

2 ай бұрын

@@truhhhhhhhokIII3 he's ok. Just referring to previous videos

@jonathanschadenfreude9603

2 ай бұрын

@@truhhhhhhhokIII3 Sentence structure.....learn.

@MyHandelsMessiah

2 ай бұрын

@@truhhhhhhhokIII3r/whoosh

Funny thing about videos like this. I've spent a lot of time watching safety videos, showing properly trained workers wearing proper clothing doing a job quite properly, and after watching I come away feeling I've wasted time, and absolutely not the least motivated to change any habits or procedures. I honestly can say I feel more "inspired" to be concerned about things like worn straps and incorrect rigging after these videos than I ever do after a "proper" safety video. I think these would provide a real benefit as a part of a safety program.

@jwolfe1209

2 ай бұрын

I think that's the motivation behind the infamous German Forklift Video

@bekaz13

2 ай бұрын

they do illustrate well that regulations are written in blood

@kennichdendenn

2 ай бұрын

​@@jwolfe1209 Staplerfahrer Klaus is a classic. It's a satire, but that doesn't stop trade school teachers around the country with a sense of morbid humor 😊

@iaial0

2 ай бұрын

I had once a tranier come in to show us the dangers of gas installations, and showed us a fridge tech van with improper venting installed. Basically they stored a leaking LPG canister (which is also used as a refrigerating fluid), which filled up the enclosed back, and when the guy used the keyfob to unlock the doors the van blew up. There was only the cab framing and the tool drawers left in place, everything else was scattered in the parking lot. Funniest thing is that the company that prepared the vehicle used the images to show the sturdiness of their vehicle furniture, as no drawers actually flew out.

@Heyu7her3

Ай бұрын

Case method is very important

As a music nerd, I love the use of a 303 to accent you saying 303. Fucking love them things.

I think the bingo card would make an interesting PD mug design. I'm not sure what I'd do with a bingo card, but I'd buy a mug! 🙂

@poeticsilence047

2 ай бұрын

Or a thermos.

@MelanieCravens

2 ай бұрын

A metal water bottle and include small flat (so they don't catch on stuff and get knocked off!) magnets to place on the card during each video.

@Archangelm127

2 ай бұрын

Workplace safety poster.

@sarahmacintosh6449

2 ай бұрын

I reckon watching a handful of Plainly Difficult videos, combined with a Bingo Card safety posters would be at least, if not more, effective as a boring health and safety induction.

My mom used to work for the Department of Buildings. Yes, there were occasions where inspectors filed false documents - that is indisputable. These cases fall into one of two categories: inspectors that accepted bribes to look the other way, and inspectors who were overwhelmed by their caseload. Unfortunately, New York City has a critical shortage of people they need the most: building / crane inspectors, and child protective services caseworkers, among them. In the case of this collapse, the situation raised some concerns about the inspector, but New York Crane was at fault for not following protective procedures.

@georgeplagianos6487

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for that information about 8 months ago the New York Post and other papers and radio media revealed almost 20 building inspectors were caught in these corruption scandals. And those are the ones who got caught not to mention all the others that haven't been

this is a more common trend than most people would think. its part of the culture of the tower crane erectors. most of those guys are on a tight schedule so any shortcuts can mean the difference of getting the job done in one day or having to figure out where to stay for the night and come back instead of hitting the road for the next job after finishing the day. one of the latest accidents was caused by the crew having guys break bolts loose multiple sections ahead of the actual disassembly

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

I remember that one

I used to work in construction and currently work in aircraft maintenance. Sling loading is something we do often in both career fields and we take load testing and "expiration" dates of slings seriously. Just because it looks good, its still 10 years old. Replace it.

@hotrodmercury3941

2 ай бұрын

Ayy! Instructor told me to throw out Sus parts! Not worth it.

Cassette tape? I remember them...strung out on the median strip because they got tangled in the car stereo 🤣🤣🤣🤣

0:45 what's really shocking is that there had been 302 previous crane collapses on 51st Street alone!

Reminds me of when a site I worked on was too cheap to extend the crane. It couldn't clear the retaining rebar wall with their wood form and clipped it bouncing the rebar worker off the side of the building 40 some stories up.

I watched a video earlier today about mountain or cliff climbing and people leaving “slings around trees and other boulders for other climbers to use when climbing. However wear and tear (weather - sunshine and moisture) did miracles with those slings and braids - shortly lowering their strength and there were several fatalities when people relied on old slings. In this video, various left-over straps were tested and most couldn’t carry the weight of grown person.

@mambi74

2 ай бұрын

There's a video of a famous young climber who died precisely because of that.. he tried doing a challenging climb but the rigging had been in place for months if not longer and, of course, woops.

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

An experienced climber on Everest died falling after using an old climbing strap to get around slower climbers.

in my experience, the second you mention destroying any sort of rigging, the people in charge flip out. i do it anyways. slings are cheap, especially nylons like that. over the years i have adapted my approach to completely destroying the rigging so it's 100% unusable, and then telling them it's bad. saves you a lot of time listening to people crying about $20. sometimes they will still cry about it, and then you have a new choice to make: do i leave and put them in a bind, or do i stay, and keep them in a bind?

@nlwilson4892

2 ай бұрын

I faced similar decisions. If you're in a position to make sure things are done right, then stay in that position. If you leave you can get the same problems elsewhere, or worse. They'll break more safety rules with you not around. I've just left a job because I couldn't influence things being done safely, I'm now unemployed.

@SeanBZA

2 ай бұрын

Simple reply to them is that would they want to trust the lives of their children to that rigging strap, or would they pay for a new one.

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

Plus the whinging about $20 is a power control thing not about the money. Every dollar they spend outside the budget lowers the profit but $20 on a multi million dollar build? For want of a nail the battle was lost and all for the want of a horseshoe nail. Some $20 cheap nylon straps caused the loss of family providers and the company went under financially. Very surprised only building instructor had criminal liability. The men who used such shoddy crane collar strap work went on to other job sites.

@raygunsforronnie847

2 ай бұрын

@@WindTurbineSyndromeThese polyester slings are more than $20 (significantly more), but even if they were $1,000, that's only $8k on a build that will take months of crane use. The value of a human life is somewhere between $4m and $10m (depending of multiple factors), so if 1 life is saved the contractor and insurers are money well ahead.

@colincampbell767

2 ай бұрын

I had the misfortune to be 'double hatted' as the safety manager at the company I worked at. I never had an issue getting my boss to pay for safety equipment and training. My issue was getting the employees to use the safety equipment and training.

It’s a damn shame. I used to frequent the bar that was destroyed by the collapse called “Fubar”.

@geniferteal4178

2 ай бұрын

I liked to go to posh but it's been a while.

@thing_under_the_stairs

2 ай бұрын

That bar was so perfectly named!

@handlesarefeckinstupid

2 ай бұрын

How apt

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

2 ай бұрын

​@@thing_under_the_stairs right? I thought so too!

@joeysplats3209

2 ай бұрын

So maybe the strangest part of this story is your comment right there. The rest of the story was predictable, as discovered at the end.

If there was a reasonably priced 20 pack of bingo cards with some fun stickers... I'd buy it!

I was involved with this failure for years beginning post-incident. NYC is a disaster-rich environment that provides a steady source of employment for thousands. One fundamental aspect of OSHA is that management may not allow workers to kill or maim themselves and their co-workers. If you don’t consistently force workers to be safe, they will employ shortcuts that, in retrospect, appear absurd to people sitting quietly in comfortable spaces.

Hey you should check out the Ghent West Virginia Little General Store explosion and collapse in 2007! Lots of negligence, poor decisions, lack of training, etc. (Channel staples). Not a high-profile event and few deaths/injuries but worth looking into.

@CoastalSphinx

16 күн бұрын

I think the Chemical Safety Board investigated that incident? I recall there's a detailed report about it, but I'm not sure who it was from. Although, speaking of the CSB, they recently completed a number of investigations, including the Foundation Food Group liquid nitrogen release. As is regrettably common with inert gas accidents, the majority of the casualties were employees attempting to rescue their colleagues.

I would have checked 'Fatigued' on the bingo card, the one of the straps was possibly 'severely degraded' according to the report.

@Showsni

2 ай бұрын

I think that square is meant to refer to people being fatigued/tired rather than equipment.

@thing_under_the_stairs

2 ай бұрын

@@ShowsniI think it can refer to both.

The Roland TB-303 Bass Line (also known as the 303) is a bass synthesizer released by Roland Corporation in 1981. Designed to simulate bass guitars, it was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1984.

@handlesarefeckinstupid

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely not.

@pollodustino

2 ай бұрын

@@lightcycler4806I remember jamming to 303 Infinity during my electronica days back in the early 2000s. Going to have to look up their albums again now.

@purplerhodes

2 ай бұрын

HIghlight of the vid lol! 303 reference!

I would love to see the bingo card as a regular or travel mug, or hoodie design. Or just a bingo card, but it would need to be somehow re-useable. Especially as someone who works in the construction industry.

Being honest i love the bingo card idea. Normally I use a sheet of paper and make my own.

I love that you talk about technical disasters but also are a musician. More renaissance men in 2024.

@rrai1999

2 ай бұрын

He's had multiple highly technical jobs as well. He used to work for one of the railroads in the UK, that I know of

@IstasPumaNevada

2 ай бұрын

He's very enthusiastic about railroad signaling systems, a topic I'd personally enjoy if he made more videos about.

Wish you and your channel all the growth it deserves!

A similar accident occurred in Krasnoyarsk, Russia on March 10, 2010 where a construction crane collapsed and fell across a busy city road. The crane operator died and 5 other people were injured, 9 cars were damaged. A friend of mine happened to be on the scene. I don't recall if he witnessed the collapse or if he just happened to come by in the aftermath. He described the scene as total chaos.

The bingo card should be made of metal so you can use magnets to place on it

I used to do a bit of industrial rope access. On the first course we were warned of UV degradation and then shown a demo of test to destruction between a sling fresh from the factory and one that had been left exposed for a year. The exposed one failed way way quicker. The rule then was you inspected your own equipment every use, your senior tech called you in every 3 months for an internal check and annually a 3rd party check. At 2 years since first use or 5 years since manufacture whichever came first it was binned.

Missed previous weeks due to busyness- apologies for not helping the algorithm

@PlainlyDifficult

2 ай бұрын

No need to apologise!!

John I love your your documentaries, and local weather reports.

"As a quick side note, if I made up physical versions of this would you be interested in buying it?" Me who reads the comments:bud people in the comments have made it very clear that they would

depending on price and shipping, i would definitely buy a bingo card. iv seen multiple cranes like this and always marvelled in quiet terror how anyone could trust something so massive and easy to break with their life.

here after 2 min of being posted? NOICE

303rd East 51st Street crane collapse? That's just way too many crane collapses, especially for just one street.

@samarnadra

2 ай бұрын

It is a beautiful thing how confusing grid layouts are for non-grid-livers. But I had the same exact thought.

@bsadewitz

2 ай бұрын

​@@samarnadraYeah, I never would have guessed there'd be at least 302 other "East 51st" streets.

@samarnadra

2 ай бұрын

@@bsadewitz I think you are also joking about his phrasing, but just in case you aren't or someone else reading this is confused, it is the 303rd address from the center of the city grid headed east down 51st street, probably _about_ 51 blocks (each about 1/10th of a mile) from the center of the grid itself.

@tessiepinkman

2 ай бұрын

@@samarnadra To me it's just unnecessarily confusing and complicated. But I'm Swedish though, and I live in Norway, and the cities in Scandinavia _(and Europe overall)_ are built completely different to American cities. I've been in New York, and I've traveled all over the US twice for about 6 months each time, but I'll never get used to the car-centric way that cities and towns are made over there, and the grid layout and addresses will never *not* confuse me.

Starship SN9 tipped over into the walls because the engineer used half the number of hydraulic jacks specified. It had worked for SN8 and previous because none of those had a nose cone section on.

So this is literally Why Paddy's Not Coming to Work Today.

John your humor is awesome

I vaguely recall this one, it makes you wonder if the people behind the building project sit everyone in a room and play them The Simpsons' parody of Mary Poppins, specifically the "Half-Arsed Job" song about cutting corners being celebrated because "It's the American way!"... :\

@xenuno

2 ай бұрын

Sherry Bobbins

I do so love your channel! I appreciate everything from the care you take in research to the (clearly understandable!) MS Paint-style graphics to, of course, the London weather report at the end. Please have a beer on me, and I look forward to as many more of these as you care to make!

@PlainlyDifficult

2 ай бұрын

Thank you soo much!!!! That’s very kind of you

I would probably buy a laminated bingo card that came with a dry erase marker, if I can convince the wife I need it lol

I'd also check off fatigue (of the straps) and cost cutting (using half the straps they should have).

As a ticketed rigger, as well as someone who is erected and dismantled well over a hundred of tower cranes, I have many questions about what is just watched The collars which slid down the mast, shouldn’t have been able to happen. There should’ve been a physical connection or adjustment and tightening bolts. That way you have one that you tighten, and if it fell it would quickly become wedged 10:10 And as for the Liebherr, which in my opinion are the best in the world, there’s actually physical mounting points, and the slings are used simply for alignment and installation with those are taking off immediately. As for the amount of slings, that doesn’t matter it’s the breaking strength of the sling that matters I was suspected these were probably improperly rigged as well. This is quite shocking to me is when did this take place? If there was a date I missed it just an FYI I am I am in Canada. I am our specs here we’re very much different till about 10 years ago but then, of course, corporations, got involved in our safety culture is taking a complete dive, but I’ve been retired for a few years now, and it’s been sad to see the amount of accidents that have happened just because of the lax Attitude towards safety inspection and maintenance

@samarnadra

2 ай бұрын

15 March 2008 The problem with the swiss cheese disaster model is that sometimes people just take a power drill to the cheese, metaphorically.

@Cthulhuforabettertomorrow

2 ай бұрын

@@samarnadra that is probably the most apt description you could give for what is happening, blanket fixes aimed at cost cutting, lowest common denominator planning too tricky so cut that out, inspection of every crane before and after every dismantling/erecting, again with the money, and experienced crews can’t have that they take up waaay too much of the budget that they where going to misappropriate. This is why I left. I don’t want to believe that this will become far more common and it will, for instance there was one that went over in Kelowna BC a couple years ago. I took one look at the picture and knew that the crew dismantling that crane had no clue what they were doing or any of the SOPs for that. A year later it turns out that there was one guy with ‘experience’ in that take down. And by experience it was his 10th one. I’ve done probably over a hundred and there is no way I would take that on with the neon green crew they had, I wouldn’t do it if there was two of me and the best two crane operators working with me. You need a trained and certified crew. Period full stop. You don’t need to be worrying about money when it comes to the safety and wellbeing of the crews working on and under them. Not to mention the danger that this represents to the public and the actual project. Truly infuriating.

@samarnadra

2 ай бұрын

@@Cthulhuforabettertomorrow With only very minimal knowledge of the subject, even I could see some things seemed dubious, and I saw hints of the same sort of attitudes I saw at the scrapyard I worked at that caused some (thankfully very minor) incidents, one a forklift incident like a week after mandatory OSHA forklift training and certification. Thankfully no one was hurt (they just dropped a giant box of copper wire on a poorly constructed plywood "office" inside the warehouse), but the guys never worked there terribly long and they really didn't understand the point of health and safety, and the boss really was pretty laid back about it unless the issue was obvious. To give you an idea of how little he thought about the most rudimentary health and safety, said office had an apparently structurally necessary 2"x4" across the threshold of the doorway, with the 2" being the height above the ground. I told him the second I saw it that people cannot see a difference in level of the ground less than 3" and we would all trip over it and he should paint it a bright color if he couldn't remove it. He laughed and said we all knew it was there and would never trip on it. We all tripped on it, including him, so many times, that the next day I worked he handed me spray paint in yellow and black and asked me to paint it. That is something you see everywhere: low curbs and uneven pavement marked so people don't trip, and he didn't believe me it was an issue. So it is no wonder when you scale that up to things that actually matter (the office was small enough you could easily catch yourself on things before falling), that attitudes like that, plus greed lead to disaster.

tsukurareta by John! Lowkey flexing the Japanese on that cassette there, very nice.

On a 4 sling lift any 2 slings MUST be able to take the full load, this is standard procedure, any sharp edging has to be packed as to not overload or potently damage the slings. In Australia all lifting gear has to be checked and tagged every 3 months, this is done with 4 different colours for each 3 monthly inspection

And to think, I used to walk this area quite often. Wow!! Thanks again for bringing these difficult stories to light.

I'm gonna give a recurring scenario: Supervisor: "C'mon ya lazy .... Ya's gonna work today or what? What's that ya say?!? Sumthin 'bout 'slings'? DaFuk is THAT? Ya wanna shoot stones? Who DaFuk cares how many slings or how frayed they are! Ya wanna work Like That and get paid? or do ya want to go home where it's safe & ya can play with yer slings all day long???" Yeah, That's how most construction sites "work" : Unsafe or Not At All.

@SteamCrane

2 ай бұрын

You got that right! You must live in Noo Yawk?

@WindTurbineSyndrome

2 ай бұрын

Yep bullying behayveeyor

Not sure what happened exactly in the Netherlands a few weeks ago, but you may want to watch for a future report about a crane accident in Lochem, the Netherlands at 21st of february 2024.

Warm and dry in west Wales 😊.

@thing_under_the_stairs

2 ай бұрын

Warm and damp in Toronto.

@WouldntULikeToKnow.

2 ай бұрын

Chilly and rainy in New Jersey, US. Hope everyone is having a happy, safe weekend.

In the future cranes will be replaced by autonomous drone swarms. What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

@SupersuMC

2 ай бұрын

Everything.

@krashd

2 ай бұрын

By the time there are autonomous drones capable of carrying multiple-ton loads they will be almost infallible, for obvious reasons.

Thanks,John

I would absolutely buy an official PlainlyDifficult bingo card

@Yezpahr

2 ай бұрын

I'm not sure how the usage is envisioned, but please consider re-usability :P. I would recommend to at least plasticize the bingo card if that's not already done by him. Then you can erase stamps made with some ethanol. You could also use some pebbles instead, or a wireframe over it with beads. (snap that brings back memories, I used to have an abacus-like contraption for bingo cards)

Yeah -- regarding your "Bingo" cards ... I was just wondering if there was a high quality digital image of them available somewhere to look at/print off. If you could do that and/or print your own, I think there would certainly be an interest in them.

MOM MOM! NEW PLAINLY DIFFICULT JUST DROPPED!

@toymachine2328

2 ай бұрын

We have Plainly Difficult at home.

People can play cassettes? That's the most unexpected info in this film.

@samarnadra

2 ай бұрын

I have at least 2 working cassette players still and one I have doubts about.

@medea27

2 ай бұрын

I still have my original Walkman which is still in working order, plus half a dozen stereo systems with working tape players that I've inherited from various friends & family over the years... the problem is normally that the tape itself has stretched or gotten twisted at some point, so it can be like listening to some demonically possessed recording at times.. LOL

Ever notice the only regulations that certain politicians hate because it is "bad for capitalism" involve safety and well being? From freight train safety to axing mandatory water breaks in two of the hottest sates in the U.S. (TX and FL), this channel will have plenty of content for years to come.

@kenneth9874

2 ай бұрын

I guess that you'd be shocked that it's much worse under communism...

@djentlegiant739

2 ай бұрын

@@kenneth9874 and it's much better in capitalist socialist European countries that actually value and protect their workers.

@karayansenvoy6169

2 ай бұрын

​@@kenneth9874You do realize that communism isn't the only other option right?

@kenneth9874

2 ай бұрын

@@karayansenvoy6169 sure, there's the madness of democracy, there's monarchies, dictatorships, and of course tyrannical. I prefer our republic over any of those especially because communism always turns out to be a dictatorship.

@kenneth9874

2 ай бұрын

@@djentlegiant739 I suppose that's why they're so inefficient and productivity is so low.....

Love your videos. Have you ever looked at the refinery in Laurel Montana? I lived just a couple miles from it when it blew up in the 90's. Whole town evacuated by the time they got it up on the news. I remember the massive cloud following us as we were driving away

7:53 two inches of girth is crazy

I actually was about a 1/2 mile away NW from this incident and I was waiting for the bus to take me home. I vaguely remember hearing a sound but I didn’t know what it was till I turned on the tv at home and they said the crane collapsed. Then a few weeks later another crane collapse was near my HS so we were a BIT on edge.

I watch this channel religiously and wasn't aware of Made By John, definitely going to be jamming out to some Last Epoch listening to this.

I didn't realize what a gargantuan population density Manhattan has until the other day. I'm not sure about the other burroughs, but Manhattan has a population density of 72,000 people per square mile. Which puts it between Dhakka, Bangladesh, at 75,000 and Puerto Prince, Haiti at 71,000. The list I found was only of cities though, so there could be a specific area in a city which is higher. Like when it existed, the Kowloon Bay Walled City was the highest, with 4.9 million per square mile, even though Hong Kong's population density was much less.

You should definitely make and sell some bingo cards! A quick lamination on them will allow them to be reused with dry erase ink

Hi John, Roland Bass Line? I used a D20 synthesizer as an auxiliary keyboard when they first came out in the mid-late 80s. I remember this tragic event. How awful. The fraudulent inspection report reminds me of another incident I recently saw, where a government owned Leer Jet crashed into downtown Mexico City. It turned out the two pilots weren't qualified, with their qualification documents being frauds.

GREAT tracks on We Are Here To Help, John!

7:10 the taxi 😂 that’s what you think of when you visualize NY? Well.. it’s accurate!

John....you have no idea how close to my heart that 303 reference was ❤ ...love your music btw. Roland's love and blessings to a fellow electronica nerd x

I love your music, so excited for the new album. I fall asleep listening to We are Here to Help.

@PlainlyDifficult

2 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Disaster Bingo with Disaster scale on the back! But it would have to be the kind that's plastic (like a restaurant menu) that wipes off, so we can play every week. I'd buy that!

I was living in NYC at the time working only 5 blocks away😢

I would play the hell outta some plainly difficult bingo!!

The physical bingo cards could be supplied to schools to educate future engineers, mechanics and architects.

Gimme a Bingo card! If you don't end up producing a physical card, consider a download link to a file we can print off and play along with.

This was my friends first day of work as a plumber and it was at that site, his first day he saw 7 dead bodies as a 18 year old fresh out of high school

I saw the new EP the other day! Totally gonna grab it when I get the funds. I love you music. So good.

Also check: No training, Time pressure, Cost cutting (old straps).

Through this whole video I just kept hearing They Might be Giants "They'll Need a Crane" playing in my head...

On the topic of crane collapses, have you ever looked into the Big Blue crane disaster when Miller Park was being built? It might've been a small tragedy in comparison to most disasters on this channel, but it definitely left an impact on the city at the time.

"So today we're looking at the 303rd 51st Street crane collapse". You would think they would be more cautious after having 300+ crane collapses on that street.

Speaking of cranes, maybe do a story about the crane that collapsed during the building of the I-280 bridge span over the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio? A second crane collapsed just days later. I don't want to give any spoilers here that would detract from your own research and presentation style.

that intro hits me like welcome to nightvale. 0:00

Aha!!! There he is!!! I knew it!!!! I see him hiding behind a beam at 4:35!!! He can't hide from me!!!

8:34 Basically it was like trying to lift a knife with noodle strands.

It must be really wet and windy if John doesn't have to pause to look outside at the weather.

Cool channel.... I do reminisce my younger days though when you present a cassette tape for your music lol

I have got to ck out your merch... Bingo card is cool, poster sized version, T shirt version?? Loved this one. 1/2 the slings, one rotten, slings have ON THEM HOW TO RIG, every crane .What's really chilling is that this wasn't for a change cheap GC or owner problme. It was NY Craine, who is responsible for most of them in NY. You can judge the economy by the no of cranes sitting in their yard. These things don't just cost millions, they are in short supply, very short supply, with years long lead times. Losing one means losing rev from that unit for YEARS and still having to pay what you own on it. That NY Crane couldn't provide a crew with ONE person w skill and experience needed, or that the owners had let operations decay to the point this was how their men were trained, isn't deplorable, it's insane, it's all the execs are snorting coke w every meal insane, it's we make Boeing QC look good level crazy. Wish I could remember the 'fallouto' of this legally. If crane operator personel / execs responsible for QC failure faced any penalties. Thre's a section to add to bingo card, bonus no - any real responsibility?

8:17 - Anyone who has done any lifting knows not to do any of these things. Except in New York. Don't go anywhere near the labeled strap capacities, any slight mistake in rigging can significantly reduce that capacity. "It'll be fine".

Thanks John.

Love your videos

Pencil whipping inspections is disturbingly common in all kinds of regulated industries. I work for a place that makes medical device parts, so we have to follow FDA recordkeeping requirements. There are absolutely people that will check the box saying a thing got done or checked when it didn't and sometimes it gets caught down the line. You kind of have to wonder about the times it doesn't. I understand the pressures that can drive it. Your boss wants you to meet X quota and you don't think you can if you take the time to do the inspection properly, but that's when you need to *tell your boss that.* If you just BS the inspection, they go on thinking the rate they're expecting is reasonable and now there's pressure for other people to meet unrealistic timelines and skip inspections too. Part of that's the worker's problem but part of it's the boss if there's a workplace culture where speaking up like that leads to punishments. Don't go along with unsafe practices, speak up. If it really is a problem and the boss ignores it, leave and/or report the place if you feel it's safe to do so.

Great episode!

Unfortunately this is just 1 or multiple cranes that have collapsed in Manhattan

If this is what I think it is, I know one thing that can be scratched off the Bingo Card already! Looking forward to watching it later!