Alibit

The Crane in Sköndal

about 3 h 15 min · 4–6 players

On 4 November 1975 the tower crane at Sköndals allé 19 drops a concrete beam onto the formwork, and the formwork carpenter and safety officer Ingvar Blidberg, 44, is struck beneath the load and dies the same afternoon at Södersjukhuset. The investigation closes the case in five days: the last line of the crane log gives the beam's weight as 2.4 tonnes, the beam weighed more, and the crane operator had misread it. Four years later the state inspector reopens the file, and two things do not add up: the lifting yoke that raised the beam was painted after the day it failed, and the man who called in the safety officer under the load appears in the record with a folder that no worker had. What is requested is the crane log page for the fourth of November, the inspection certificate, the safety round minutes of the twenty-ninth of October, the tool register in the workshop shed, the packing list for the lifting yoke and slings, the casting record for beam B-14, the scrap receipt from Hammarby and the receipt for the green paint. A fitter who saw the crane in October exists only as a statement in the file; he died in a traffic accident in 1977.

The Crane in Sköndal – a murder case in Alibit. Up to eight people work the same case in the browser, with no game master.