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It is heavily weighted on the driver's side and has limit switches supposedly to prevent tipping but despite the precautions there have been several accidents over the years. Once in St. Pete on a super elevated bridge deck there was a roll over and it was the bucket at the end of Boom 3 hitting the under route that prevented the truck from rolling over onto the under route. No injuries then. More recently on the Gandy, a pin failure at Turret 2 resulted in Booms 2 and 3 dropping (although not completely separating) sending the two man crew into Tampa Bay. (Again no permanent injuries) A similar failure under the conditions I was working would most certainly have resulted in squished inspectors. Not from the drop necessarily but from impact from the under route traffic.