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Article

19 Jul 2008

Author:
Monica Rhor, Associated Press

Crane collapses at Houston refinery, killing 4 [USA]

Hitting the ground with enough force to lift a worker off the ground, one of the nation's largest mobile cranes collapsed at a Houston oil refinery, killing four workers and injuring seven others. As federal officials prepared to investigate the latest in a string of fatal accidents involving cranes, the Louisiana company that owns the [crane, Deep South Crane & Rigging ] said it would pursue its own probe of Friday's incident... The 30-story-tall crane...fell over at a LyondellBasell refinery in southeast Houston about 2 p.m., said Jim Roecker, the company's vice president for refining.