High reach excavator tips and falls into neighboring house.
A graphic video shot from the air in Sharpsburg, Pittsburgh shows the aftermath of a high reach excavator collapse that only narrowly avoided ijuring a family in a neighboring building.
Crews of a sheet metal company were tearing down a building to make room for a new building and parking lot when the Caterpillar machine somehow tipped over, authorities said.
The Winegarden family was inside the house as crews were demolishing the building next door. The excavator tipped over and crashed into the second story of the family’s home.
“At first, a couple of bricks came down and hit the house. I told my daughter we should leave the house just to be safe. We came outside and as soon as we came outside, that’s when the crane came into the side of the house and smashed the side of the house,” said James Winegarden.
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