The deadly crane collapse Friday in New York has the attention of Washington state regulators.
Click here to watch raw video of the collapse.
Labor and Industries will be interested in the outcome of the investigation to see what they can learn from the accident that killed one person and seriously injured three. Friday's collapse was a mobile crane on tracks, not a tower crane that was erected inside a construction site.
"Something definitely went wrong, and I'm looking forward to finding out what happened there, because any knowledge we can gain from any source helps us here," said Brian Haight, with the Washington Department of Labor and Industries.
Washington State changed the way it regulates crane safety after a tower crane collapsed in Bellevue in November 2006. Matthew Ammon, 31, was sitting in his apartment across the street when the crane smashed into his building and killed him. Ammon was a patent lawyer who worked at Microsoft.
At that time, the state counted on contractors and crane companies to inspect their own cranes.
After the deadly collapse in Bellevue, legislation was developed that requires the state to inspect and certify cranes each year. Tower cranes also need to be inspected each time they are constructed in a new location. The state certifies 80 "crane certifiers," those private individuals are then responsible for inspecting more than 4,000 cranes in the state each year. Labor and Industries has eight inspectors who investigate complaints and problems.
Right now, there are 109 tower cranes in use in the state, about 70 in Seattle and 16 in Bellevue.
>> Here's a map of where cranes are operating in Western Washington right now.
According to Labor and Industries, there are about 4,000 mobile cranes in use. They are inspected once a year, not each time they move to a new location.
Labor and Industries also requires crane operators to be certified through the state. Labor and Industries says Washington, California and New York are the only states they know of with crane certification regulations.
After the fatal collapse in Bellevue, the state worked with the industry to develop new rules. Those rules went into effect in 2010.
"We're confident that crane work in this state is far safer today than it was before we put the rules into place," said Haight.