{"id":284646,"date":"2025-10-07T19:39:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T19:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:39:17","slug":"crane-moving-hot-tub-topples-over-onto-home-in-hamilton-township-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/284646\/","title":{"rendered":"Crane moving hot tub topples over onto home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Crane topples over onto home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/d0fcee15ecf474b3abfe3b585a828690.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/video\/crane-topples-over-onto-home-in-hamilton-township-new-jersey\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Crane topples over onto home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey<\/p>\n<p>          08:11<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crane attached to a truck toppled over onto a home in Mercer County, New Jersey, as it was moving a new hot tub into the backyard Tuesday afternoon, Hamilton Township police said.<\/p>\n<p>The arm of the crane collapsed as it was moving the hot tub into a backyard on Lea Drive in Hamilton Township, at around 12:30 p.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For some still unknown reason that will still be under investigation, the crane collapsed onto the roof of the house,&#8221; Hamilton Township  Mayor Jeff Martin said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Images captured by Chopper 3 show that the collapse led to structural damage to the home&#8217;s roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-25324.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-25324.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-30239.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-30239.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-29268.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lns-crane-onto-home-hamilton-twp-100725-frame-29268.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton Township police, fire department and members of the Office of Emergency Management responded to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Martin said Hamilton Township officials coordinated to bring in two additional cranes to safely remove the one that&#8217;s currently lying on the house. After this, a structural expert will examine any damage inside the home.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Martin said the house will be tarped up ahead of the inclement weather that&#8217;s moving through the area Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Acting Fire Chief Steven Kraemer said no one was behind the wheel of the truck when the arm of the crane collapsed. But there were workers in the home&#8217;s yard who scattered once they realized the crane was going down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Martin said given that no injuries were reported to the residents, workers, or any first responders, it &#8220;could&#8217;ve been a far worse situation than what we&#8217;re facing right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kraemer said they shut down and secured the solar, gas and electric power to the residence as a safety precaution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/search\/author\/jessica-macaulay\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jessica  MacAulay<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jessica MacAulay is a digital producer for CBSPhiladelphia.com. Jessica started out her career in broadcast journalism originally as an intern for CBS Philadelphia. She covers breaking news, local community and crime stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crane topples over onto home in Hamilton Township, New Jersey Crane topples over onto home in Hamilton Township,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":284647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,43359,401,1448,2830,1311,27468,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-284646","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mercer-county","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-south-jersey","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115334582829393951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}