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Serious personal injury was narrowly avoided after a 44- tonne machine being used to build a hotel in Hull fell onto a busy road in Hull during the evening rush hour.
A Stockport-based building contractor has been fined £20,000 and its sub-contractor fined £25,000 over the incident after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that the machine had not been installed properly or operated safely.
The piling machine, which is used to drive building supports into the ground, weighed 44-tonnes and crushed a wall as it fell over and rolled across a street.
HSE inspector Dave Redman said, "This incident could easily have resulted in disaster and it is nothing short of a miracle that no one was killed or seriously injured."
Both companies which supplied and used the machinery pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 by putting lives at risk. They were also ordered to pay court costs totalling £36,000.
If someone had been injured by the machinery, a personal injury claim could have been made against both companies for their negligence.
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