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Incident: Friday Morning 26/09/08 – Castle Hill/Sydney- 9 Day Old 250t Leibherr Crane (never used before)- $4mill price tag- Failure of back propping beneath the 200mm thick concrete deck- Crane support outrigger punches through slab causing crane to lose balance and collapse across the site and onto adjoining property- Crane balanced in the air for approx 1 hour before entire rig & boom collapse completely across site and rigs falls through to the basement level.Amazing that no-one was seriously injured or killed.