
The metal beams demolished the vehicle and just missed crushing the crane operator, who was rattled by his near-death experience but otherwise unhurt.
"It's a miracle" nobody was killed, said steamfitter Mark Sherank, 45, who was in the middle of a safety meeting in nearby Building 4 when the steel fell.
"I looked outside I saw the truck t's a pancake now," he said. "A noise like that, you know something's wrong."
Another steamfitter, 43-year-old Erid Redd, said "the whole building shook."
The impact sent up a cloud of dust and "the scene was chaos," added an ironworker in Building 4.
Comment: Obviously steel does not evaporate..