CRANE FLIP

Traverse City Firefighters look at a pair of Skytrak lifts that, while working in tandem to lower a construction barge into the Boardman River, tipped over on the edge of the South Cass Street Bridge on Monday afternoon in Traverse City. No one was injured in the accident. The boom of one crane stuck in the riverbed, effectively holding the two on the edge of the bridge. Responders from the Traverse City Fire Department placed a boom on the water in case of a fuel or hydralic fluid spill, but Chief Jim Tuller said there didn't appear to be any significant spill. Workers with Grand Haven-based Anlaan Corporation, which specializes in heavy civil construction, were lowering the barge on the first day of a project to rebuild the bridge, which dates to 1930 and also known at the American Legion Memorial Bridge. City Engineer Tim Lodge said the platform was the second one being placed in the river to function as a work platform and to catch debris from the project.

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