This photo released by the Orlando Fire Department shows a truck carrying a crane tipped over, damaging a house in the Baldwin Park neighborhood of Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2018. Officials did not say what caused the crane to overturn.
ORLANDO, Florida --
Officials say a crane collapsed onto a house in a Florida neighborhood, tearing a large gash in its roof.
The Orlando Fire Department says the crane fell over Tuesday in the upscale Baldwin Park neighborhood. No injuries were reported.
Photos released by the fire department show the crane's base turned partially over in front of the home, while its arm rests on the damaged roof.
Officials didn't immediately say what the crane was being used for or what caused it to topple. However, it is obvious that the crane boom was severely overextended and this caused the tipping over of the crane. It is a classic operator error.
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ORLANDO, Fla. —
A crane toppled over Tuesday and ripped through the roof of a home in the Baldwin Park area of Orlando.
The crane slammed into the roof of a home on Lower Park Road. Baldwin Park neighbors came by to look at the house well into Tuesday evening.
"It's just crazy," one neighbor said.
Surveillance video give to WESH 2 News captured the collapse and the resulting sound.
The crane was eventually lifted off the roof seven hours after it first toppled onto the house, slicing it down the middle.
Nobody was home at the time of the incident. The crane operator also walked away unscathed.
After crews finished setting the crane back on its wheels, people living in the home gathered some of their belongings.
Executives at Beyel Brothers Crane and Rigging and Gold Key Roofing declined to comment on the exact cause of this mishap.
WESH 2 Investigates reviewed records with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and discovered that this is not the first incident involving Beyel Brothers Crane and Rigging.
Department of Labor enforcement records reveal a company employee fatality in Merritt Island in 2013.
In that incident, Shaun Cheney fell from from a crane barge while it was attached to a tug. Court records show that his family sued Beyel Brothers for negligence and the case was later settled.
Beyel was not fined or cited by the government in that incident.
A check of Gold Key Roofing's license status with the state shows it to be active and in good standing and with no complaints.
Federal safety records show Gold Key has had two serious safety violations, resulting in more than $6,037 in fines, since 2014.