Mumbai: Crane operator killed as vehicle topples while installing girder for Metro line 6
A 35-YEAR-OLD man was killed after the crane he was operating toppled and collapsed while installing a concrete girder (deck) of Mumbai Metro Line 6 at Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road on Sunday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Lovedeep Ravindra Singh (35), a crane operator, who was working on the metro construction site at JVLR near Kanjurmarg.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) is constructing the Metro line-6, an elevated corridor between Jogeshwari and Vikhroli passing through the JVLR where the incident took place. Police said that the incident happened around 6 am near the JVLR signal on a service road where a team was installing a girder between two pillars of an elevated metro line using two cranes.
