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Crane's 200-foot boom topples at SkyDome site

Date5/25/1987
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  • Crane's 200-foot boom topples at SkyDome site. Workers at the SkyDome site look at a mangled crane boom after it toppled over when the driver lost control yesterday. No one was injured. SkyDome officials said it won't set back the project's tight construction schedule by even one day. The 165-tonne-capacity crane; worth $250;000; was wrecked but there was only minor damage to metal and wooden forms on the site.
  • Crane's 200-foot boom topples at SkyDome site
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Original Toronto Star caption: Crane's 200-foot boom topples at SkyDome site. Workers at the SkyDome site look at a mangled crane boom after it toppled over when the driver lost control yesterday. No one was injured. SkyDome officials said it won't set back the project's tight construction schedule by even one day. The 165-tonne-capacity crane; worth $250;000; was wrecked but there was only minor damage to metal and wooden forms on the site.
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