On Thursday evening the emergency services were called to a serious crane incident at the Danish National Test Centre for large wind turbines on the Østerild Dune Plantation to the east of Thisted in North Jutland, Denmark – dues east of Aalborg.
The scene on Thursday night
A large lattice crawler crane from the BMS fleet had overturned, thankfully the crane operator, 23, was not seriously injured in the incident, although he was taken to hospital after reporting that he had got some diesel in his eyes, There were a few others still working on the site at the time but were not caught up in the incident.
A clean up to collect the spilled diesel and hydraulic oil was also instigated. We have heard that the crane, a big Liebherr, had been completing a lift of a large wind turbine blade when it went over, but have not been able to confirm that beyond all doubt. The ground under that crane looks fine, we are told, so it looks as though the load may have gone beyond its safe radius and pulled the crane over? But cannot be at all sure of that. We have reached out to BMS for a comment and update.
one of the photos we have received that were taken over the weekend
According to the West Jutland Polica, an investigation was due to get underway on Friday.
Over the weekend end we have received a few more photos – but we need to the check them out before using them.
We will update this item when we learn more.
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