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Data of the Group RTS

The sinking of the terrain motivates many of the accidents of cranes and machinery of public works

Editorial Interempresas08/11/2011

8 November 2011

An error in the calculation of the terrain or a defective compactación of the same can carry to a fall of the crane when taking place sinkings or deformations in the floor. The damages in the cranes can reach values between the 200.000 and the 2 million euros. They are data of the Group RTS, company of peritaciones and valuations in Spain and Latin America that explains, from does more than 15 years, with a skilled department in accidents of self-propelled cranes, of port and of orugas, as well as of heavy machinery of civil work.

Group RTS studies the cost of the repairs and the alternatives of replacement of components by means of skilled workshops.

The department of accidents of self-propelled cranes has a team of multidisciplinary experts that, as they explain from the company, attends sinister of machinery with special attention to the analysis of the cause with the end to avoid the repetition of said accidents, in addition to determining the civil responsibility by damages that said incidents or accidents can ocasionar to third.

His interventions head to to study the cost of the repairs and those alternatives, with full technical guarantees, of replacement of components by means of the use of skilled workshops and solvents, so much in Spain as abroad. In this sense also occupy of the rescue or recovery of rests thanks to his wide knowledge of the half that does them arrive, included in case of total accident, to substitute the machine by another of characteristics and similar antiquity with full acceptance of the ensured, diminishing, through this operation, the cost of the accident.

Errors of calculation

In Spain, during the last years, a high percentage of the accidents of cranes and machinery of Public Work has to , according to Group RTS, to an error of calculation of the terrain. In this sense, when they establish the parameters on the place in that it has to situate the crane, in a lot of occasions does not take into account the movement or vibration of the terrain that can take place by the own works that are realising/realizing or the quantity of weight that will bear the crane or machinery.

When it establishes the place in that it has to situate the crane, sometimes does not take into account the movement or vibration of the terrain that can take place by the own works.

Although in any type of peritación the immediate presence of the expert is advisable, in the case of the cranes does of the all indispensable with the aim to analyse/analyze with the greater objectivity and guarantee the cause that has caused the accident. The peritación of accidents in cranes and machinery of public work differentiates of the peritación in other technical bouquets. A remarkable point is the moment to adjust the damages, since in maquinaria the costs of repair and/or replacement are distinct for po Of machine and, in the case of the construction, where exists a mplia variety, can affirm that a lot of costs already find tabulados and accepted by the market, existing publications with precios generally admitted.

Damages by value of between 200.000 and 2 million euros

According to Javier Ezcurra, president and director of the Division of Cranes and Machinery of Public Works of the Group RTS, “the damages in the cranes can reach values between the 200.000 and the 2 million euros. It is, therefore, of crucial importance that the expert of the accident in question was qualified and was specialist so much in the type of policies of this sector like that it know the peculiarities of the own sector”.