Fenner, NY -- Enel North America has hired a forensic engineer to look into why a 187-ton turbine at the company’s Fenner Wind Farm fell over early Sunday.
The engineer is expected to be joined by a team being put together by General Electric Co., the turbine’s manufacturer, to look into the cause of the collapse, Enel spokesman Hank Sennott said.
A security firm also is expected to be hired to take over from company officials who have been taking turns keeping the site safe from curiosity seekers, Sennott said.
Meanwhile, officials are working to stabilize pieces of the fallen giant so they don’t hurt investigators probing the wreckage, said Steve Pike, Fenner Wind Farm’s project manager.
Turbine 18, one of 20 erected in farm fields atop a ridge five miles northeast of Cazenovia, fell with a thunderous boom between 3 and 4 a.m. Sunday, neighbors said. What once stood 329 feet tall to the tip of a blade at the highest point of its arc lay sprawled across the mud and stubble of a harvested cornfield on Buyea Road.
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