Feds Investigate Crane Accident Cause 2 Dead, 4 Injured In Crane Accident + video

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http://cbs4.com/local/crane.accident.miami.2.685060.html

MIAMI (CBS4) ― Inspectors from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are still on the scene at a Miami construction site where a crane accident Tuesday killed 2 men and injured 4 others.

OSHA's area director Darlene Fossum will head the investigation into the accident. Fossum said it is too early in the investigation to focus on any one factor as a cause of the accident. Everything will be considered; from the strength of the wind at the time of the accident (which will be downloaded from a device on the crane itself) to the "jumping" process that is used to lift new sections of the crane into place.

"We're going to accumulate as much evidence as quickly as we can to determine how this happened," said Fossum. "We have to look at a lot of factors. No one issue is being targeted. This investigation is going to take awhile."

Currently two compliance officers from OSHA are on the construction site and a crane expert is being flown in from Washington, D.C. Fossum said OSHA would be interviewing witnesses first and then, by the end of the week, those who survived the accident.

57-year old Theron Cook, 48-year old Russel Dyer, 31-year old Emanoel Souza all checked out of Jackson Memorial Hospital on Wednesday. A fourth man, whose name has not been released, remains hospitalized. A fifth man was treated for minor injuries at the scene and released.

Cook told CBS4, "It was just so instantaneous. The only real thing I saw were particles from the roof."

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