A truck-mounted concrete pump damaged a house when the rig tipped over Wednesday morning while laying a foundation next door.

Nobody was home when the truck's telescoping arm landed on the front roof of the house in the 11000 block of Schinz Field in the Laurel Canyon subdivision on the far Northwest Side.

Police officer Jared Herrera said the vehicle's operator suffered leg and ankle injuries that required hospitalization but none of the construction workers on the scene were injured.

One of the workers said the operator had just finished pouring its load of wet concrete into the foundation form and was beginning to swing the telescoping arm away when the accident occurred.

Fire Department spokeswoman Melissa Sparks said the house sustained $50,000 in damage. The vehicle's long arm damaged the residence's front porch and the roof covering the garage and the front part of the home.

Shortly before noon, a large mobile crane arrived on the scene to right the tipped truck and haul it away.

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I dont know what company but they are in San Antonio TX.

Wednesday, August 3 2011, 03:15 PM CDT

Here is some video.

http://www.ksat.com/news/28754662/detail.html

I was just talking to someone about operators not useing enough cribbing under there outriggers. 

I guss he must have been set up in the driveway next door I really don't understand how this happened.

that's so stuipid it's almost funny

wow what a stupid operator, but funny for us to see and laugh at someone elses stupidity. thanks for the laugh today.

we dont know what happen so we really should not call the guy stupid. until we know what happen we should be nice. In fact its good to be nice no matter what.

i think not just laugh at these misfortunes . . . . indeed reminds us of what can be dangerous our job . . . ! ! in this case certainly seems very difficult to see and understand what happened

"D", maybe you need to be on this site for more than a few weeks before you can call people stupid. As far as this incident, I would guess that he had his front outrigger where the water and electric was ran underground for the house next door and not compacted. When he swung around, it sank. His boom was pretty much straight up, so it is not like he had a lot of weight over that side. Outrigger must have sank.

As one of my coworkers said this morning...... At least he cleaned out the hopper while waiting for the crane to show up.

I think D was joking, I think his point is that its not nice to laugh at another mans misfortune. Besides I think the operator might be ignorant but not stupid.

"The operator told police one of the legs broke on the truck, causing it to tip"

If what I just read is right, then equipment failure was the cause of this accident and not operator error. I have seen outriggers break while working before, its scary.

I have nightmars about my outriggers breaking....   Is that normal??

and the last insp was done when ?

I also heard that the outrigger had broken and caused it to tip over.

If the outrigger get broken and damage a house, the most imortent thing is that it is no person who have bin injured. It´s a tragery when a concteteppumpin in pumpbussiness tilts over - but what ivé learn over all my years in pumpbussines: The juridical things comes later - no mater what. I blow a hose in a stairwell in a niceliving 9-floorliving. It cost me less moore (my insurance-company was my frontwall) Than it look like what it should cost - there where concretesplash all over the stairs and walls, and cielings. But in all of that mess - i was thankful that noone persone get injured - even if i didn´t get forwaed on that pumpingjob.

No one even bother to thank 'em for the free sky light!?!

I just noticed......The passenger rear outrigger is not even out. I am wondering if maybe he got distracted and started putting outriggers away before folding up.

no the legs didnt break he finished the job sucked a sponge and forgot the boom was in the air still and pulled safety pins and lifted the legs. when u do this they be come free floating and they went banck in the truck cause it to land on the house it was a gentle fall too 100 percent operator error .this is a putzmeister concrete pump 32 meter they make good machines and was not any default on the machine this is what happen i know cause i was there and no it wasnt me that did it  that is me on the roof though