ever want to hear. and it was bad. without the kingpin, the crane is doomed. seconds later, big blue and the roof come crashing down. watch it! there s no there s nothing you can do, you know. it s terrifying. the crane and roof fall away from jeff cassenski s yellow man basket, seen on the right, and miss him. but another crane on the left is hit. it s holding a man basket with three other iron workers in it. there was a crane holding my three friends and then my crane and then blue and mine was the only one left standing, i think. all of the other cranes went over. all three men lose their
lives. it s a devastating blow. jerry starr was a really nice guy. he was our union steward on the job. jeff wisher, he s the guy i knew the most.diver, we called him on the job. i just met him. he was a real nice guy, you know. several other people are injured, including jeff. he sustains a career ending back injury when his basket is lowered and stopped too quickly. that was my last day on the job. an investigation finds two factors are to blame, the biggest is that the wind was blowing too hard for the crane to operate safely. the wind was 35-mile-per-hour gusting. it caught like a sail and pulled this big crane over which fell into the crane that my people were suspended from in a man box. and that s how it happened. robert represents the widows of the three men killed in a