N.Y. crane death toll rises to 7
The bodies of two construction workers and a woman from Miami were pulled from the rubble of a Manhattan crane collapse Monday.
The deaths of Santino Gallone, 37, and Clifford Canzona, 45, of Long Island and Odin Torres, 28, of Florida brought to seven the number of people killed in Saturday’s collapse.
The crash was set in motion when a 5 1/2 -ton steel collar being installed around the crane broke loose from the building on East 51st Street, authorities said. As the collar -- used to secure the crane to the building -- fell, it struck a collar already in place, knocking it loose and destabilizing the crane.
The crane, at that point completely unsupported, toppled, crashed into the building on which it was being used and leveled a town house around the corner.
Torres, the only victim who was not a construction worker, lived in Miami but was in the town house visiting family friend John Gallego, 30, at the time.
Gallego was rescued from under 30 feet of rubble. He remains in critical condition.
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