This is an older post, but needless to say, the same thing continues to happen needlessly.  The system asks “why” or “how” but as usual, until someone dies, no one wants to talk about “how do we prevent this?” A 7.5 Kv powerline (service line) was contacted, it was a tight lift to begin with regardless but it may be an alternative piece of equipment may have been selected instead of this crane.  The Effer crane had a jib on it, and looking at how it had to navigate those lines, as an operator, my choice (yes it’s also easy to say afterwards), that I would not have made this lift, but again, those choices are often ignored for the