Data of the Group RTS
The sinking of the terrain motivates many of the accidents of cranes and machinery of public works
8 November 2011
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.
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”.