According to the Seattle Times, several vehicles and a building were damaged when a crane fell on a car parked nearby. Four people were killed and three were injured at the time.
David Benninger, an attorney for one of the victims, said that Sarah Wong, a freshman at the age of 19 who lost her life in the 2019 accident, was awarded more than $72 million (about 458 million yuan) in this verdict and the largest percentage of the compensation distributed.
Six months after the accident, in October 2019 the Washington State Department of Occupational Safety Regulation released the accident investigation report, the main cause of the accident was that the operator did not follow the tower crane manufacturer's instructions, but removed the standard section of the coupling pin in advance to save time. As a result, the tower crane collapsed directly when a gust of wind blew through the stability deterioration.
