24.06.2026

Loader crane overturn

A regular visitor was caught up in a loader crane overturn in Luxembourg last week.

The crane, a Fassi F820, was lifting building materials into the garden of a house on Klatzevee, just below Clervaux castle, when the front load side outrigger/stabiliser gave way.

The jacks were set up on the pavement/sidewalk with the front one next to a lamppost. It was also short-rigged, and there were no signs of any outrigger mats actually in use.

Thankfully, no one was injured in the incident, which did not even make the local news as far as we can tell, but there seems to have been some sort of oil spill which runs from the failed outrigger, suggesting that this is related to the cause of the incident?

Setting up on the pedestrian walkway is always fraught with risk, especially right next to a lamp post, which is likely to have a culvert below. Although, given the oil trail, this might be something else.

PS – A local has told us that a similar incident occurred towards the end of May with a Hiab, lifting panels into the back yard of a kindergarten. in another part of town.