Craneway collapse at Fore River Shipyard

David McCormack

Practice Area: Wrongful Death

Outcome: Settlement

Description: Settlement for the four young children of a construction worker who was killed when a massive steel craneway collapsed. The general contractor failed to develop an engineering or demolition plan for the dismantling of the craneway and made cuts to the craneway that left a portion of it a free standing structure without securing it or warning any of the workers at the site of the danger posed by the free standing structure.