Britsh Virgin Islands – At approximately 5:00 o’clock Thursday afternoon, a crane owned and operated by Kenneth Smith of Sea Cow’s Bay overturned while working on the steel frame section of the roof of the new St. George’s Primary School in Road Town causing extensive damage to the roof of the present school.
The operator of the crane received injuries to his arm while the contractor Heskith Newton of Newton Construction Ltd. narrowly escaped with minor scratches and bruises.
The school was unoccupied at the time.
It was reported that one of the front legs that supports the crane when the boom is in operation was not in place at the time which resulted in the accident.
