13.12.2023

Dropped load fatalities

News has reached us of two fatal incidents that occured on Monday in which two people died after being struck by loads that fell on them from a crane.

The one we know most about occurred in Milan, Italy where a man, 28, was crushed by steel formwork which broek free from a tower crane.
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The incident occurred on a construction site near Milan's central train station. According to the emergency services, the deceased was one of several men working on the site installing or removing formwork before or after a concrete pour. The man is said to have died instantly.

The following is a news bulletin on the incident


The other incident occurred in Kuwait, when a truck crane working over the rear, overturned with the load that it was lifting into a building landing on the man guiding it into place. We are still trying to corroborate the facts of this incident and will post a separate report when we have more details.