A telehandler operator has been jailed for 21 months in the UK for gross negligence, following a fatal accident in 2007.
13.12.2009
An unusual seasonal decoration caused some issues for someone in the USA.
10.12.2009 1
A fatal accident at a Warsaw stadium site in which a platform fell from a tower crane, has claimed a second life.
10.12.2009
A man was seriously injured yesterday on a scissor lift on the Westfield Shopping centre project in East London.
Three people were killed and five others injured after a tower crane collapsed in south China's Guangdong Province yesterday.
05.12.2009
Two men were stranded in a boom truck platform following two failed rescue attempts in Cleveland, Texas.
03.12.2009
The UK Health and Safety Executive will review the Government’s tower crane register after just 12 months.
A crane sliced through a house in Santa Rosa, California on Monday afternoon while attempting to remove an oak tree from the rear of a house.
18.11.2009
A 150 ton lattice boomed truck crane dropped its 160ft on a job site in Grafton, Wisconsin yesterday.
22.09.2009
Conducting set up checks with an aerial lift, prior to starting work, may have prevented a serious accident in the UK yesterday
28.07.2009
Three 250 tonne plus mobile cranes collapsed yesterday in New Delhi while trying to lift the launcher crane which collapsed on Sunday.
14.07.2009
Several of you have written in over yesterdays report on the crane that tipped in New Zealand, asking if a counterweight slab was missing.
18.06.2009
A truck crane tipped over this morning in a busy street in Dunedin, New Zealand, fortunately no one was injured.
17.06.2009
A crane operator died yesterday in Florida, after his crane tipped over while lifting a fork truck mast, ejecting him from his cab.
15.06.2009
A mobile crane tipped over yesterday at a building site in Manchester city centre, no one was injured and the operator escaped unhurt.
24.03.2009
A crane dropped its load from a flyover in the Indian City of Chenai yesterday, killing a man passing underneath.
17.03.2009
Our email and message service was running overtime this weekend with at least four crane accidents reported.
08.03.2009
One man died and another is critically ill after a boom lift overturned in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday, neither were wearing a harness.
08.02.2009
A man died yesterday while dismantling a crane on a construction site in the Marylands heights area of St Louis, Missouri.
04.02.2009
A man loading waste bins in Evatt, Canberra, Australia died yesterday after he was crushed between boom and chassis.
13.01.2009
A large dragline has been badly damaged after its boom was dropped when a crane’s winch failed while lowering it for maintenance at the Curragh mine in Queensland.
13.12.2008 2
The operator of the tower crane involved in the fatal collapse in Bellevue, Seattle in 2006 is suing a local newspaper for defamation.
25.11.2008
A coroner’s court has ruled that the failure of a home made log loading crane that killed its owner was an accident.
23.11.2008
A launching crane, collapsed yesterday in Delhi, India, dropping a 400 tonne bridge section onto several cars and a bus on the road below, killing two and injuring 17 others.
20.10.2008