What’s Wrong With This Picture?

In a recent investigation of a crane outrigger failure, we were provided with some photographs of the incident by the insured company’s personnel.  At the time of the outrigger failure, the insured company was attempting to lift crawler tracks for attachment to a 120 ton crane using a 40 ton boom truck.  It was understood that the weight of the tracks was 26,300 pounds.  However, as soon as one track was lifted off the ground, the left rear outrigger buckled.  From all indications, the load was under the load limit capacity of the boom truck.  Upon reviewing the photos that were taken by the insured company, and specifically the area where the buckling occurred in zoom mode, it was noted that the outrigger failed at the point were it exits its storage enclosure.  Upon further inspection of the photograph, something very unusual was noted.  Can you tell what it is by looking at the picture below

Give up?  If you look to the left of the area where the outrigger buckled you will see that the rear end of the large crane is resting on a part of the bed of the boom truck.  In the original photograph provided by the insured company, the position of the large crane on the boom truck bed, is not obvious because it was taken at a distance of several feet away from both vehicles.  The question then arises as to whether the view could have been distorted because of the angle of the photographer as they took the photograph.  The answer is no.  As it turned out, the insured company also provided additional photographs which documented the position of the large crane on the bed and after it was completely removed.  Unfortunately, those photographs cannot be published because they can identify the insured company and therefore, constitute a privacy issue.  Suffice it to say that the partial load of the large crane was enough to cause the outrigger to buckle when combined with the track load of 26,300 pounds.