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Police say a crane operator suffered minor injuries to his neck and back after jumping out of the cab of a leaning crane in Mineola Wednesday afternoon.

The crane had fallen to its side on 1st Street and 2nd Avenue at a construction site at around 12:40 p.m. Two other cranes were brought to the scene to upright the tipped construction crane.

Officials say no one else was injured because the road and sidewalk were closed to pedestrians at the time.

News 12 was told that the general contractor on the construction project is Lend Lease.

Lend Lease has had a history of problems in recent years. It was the general contractor for the project where two firefighters were killed in the Deutche Bank fire in 2007. Lend Lease was also the contractor on a Harlem project that claimed the life of a 69-year-old construction worker in 2012.

Lend Lease did not return a call to comment about the incident. It is unclear why the crane tipped over.

For Chopper 12 over the construction site, watch the clip to the left or click News 12 Extra on Optimum TV channel 612.

Police say a crane operator suffered minor injuries to his neck and back after jumping out of the cab of a leaning crane in Mineola Wednesday afternoon.    The crane had fallen to its side on 1st Street

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Let's turn our attention now to our weather as we remain on storm watch because we have a serious storm heading our way. We're over here in the weather center with meteorologist Crystal Ellis. So, Crystal, what do people need to know about the exact timing here for this? Uh, the worst of it's going to be tomorrow night into the evening, late evening into tomorrow. The overnight hours. That's when we're going to see the worst wind gusts and the most widespread heaviest rainfall. But that doesn't mean before then we won't be experience some turbulent weather. So looking at our storm watch, we do have a high wind watch and a flood watch. 2 to 4 inches of rain could see even more than that in localized areas. So that will lead to flooding. You definitely want to try to stay home if you can for tomorrow. The winds also between 25 and 4540 MPH sustained gusting to 55 even 60 MPH for tomorrow. So that actually could lead to dangerous wind, damaging winds and uh down trees down power lines. So you definitely want to be weather aware for tomorrow, as we look into tomorrow afternoon, the winds start to pick up a little bit and we'll have some scattered downpours throughout the area as we step into the afternoon. Those downpours again, wherever they set up, that's where we'll have the most rainfall falling and check out the winds gusting up to 3035 MPH throughout the area. And this is around 4 p.m. and that's not even the worst of it as we keep going on. The future cast, you can see the rain is just training on in. It's continuing to come down in heavy bouts in the, in the red, orange and yellow shades and the wind is not going anywhere as well. In fact, it's going to be increasing as we step into the later hours. So here we are 11 pm, wind gusts 47 MPH in Smithtown, 47 Rocky Point and the rain continues to fall. So it's going to be a pretty serious storm for tomorrow. And then in your overnight hours, this is where we're seeing the worst of the wind gusts 52 in Rocky Point. And again, depending on where these fans set up will be the worst of the flooding potential. Looking at your Monday morning, it's still hanging on the winds eventually will calm down. And so does the rain. However, we will have a if you wrap around showers for Monday morning and blustery conditions for the second half of your Monday. So we are on storm watch Sunday afternoon, Sunday night and into your Monday morning before things begin to calm down, it gets colder, the wind sticks around and it's feeling like much more typical December weather highs in the forties for the rest of the work week. But at least it's quiet.

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Crane operator suffers minor injuries after jumping out of leaning cab