We have received photographs this morning of an amazing rescue of six or seven men alive thanks to their harnesses.
12.04.2011
A crane operator has been fined £2,500 and his employer £4,500 following a fatal accident in the UK in 2007.
11.04.2011
Sagard has sold its stake in French rental company Kiloutou to PAI partners in a deal that values the business at €535 million.
07.04.2011
A man working on the top of a mobile crane was injured yesterday in Tempe, Arizona and had to be rescued.
05.04.2011 1
A Rough Terrain crane tipped over yesterday by the side of the river in St Joseph Michigan.
01.04.2011
A man in a telescopic boom lift had a lucky escape after touching high voltage power lines in Antwerp Belgium.
30.03.2011
The UK’s HSE has issued advice following an investigation into the failure of a hook on a loader crane.
29.03.2011 2
A man whose face was burnt in an aerial lift accident in 2008 has become the first face transplant recipient in the US.
28.03.2011
A boom truck fitted with a two man platform dropped its boom onto a roof last week in Twin Falls, Idaho,
27.03.2011
A 450 tonne crane went over on a wind farm in Denmark last week dropping the rotor blades of a turbine.
24.03.2011 1
Boom truck manufacturer Manitex is expanding its distribution agreement with Cropac Equipment, to include Alberta and Saskatchewan provinces in Canada.
24.03.2011
For those who have asked about a crane accident in San Francisco yesterday – it was a sad traffic accident.
19.03.2011
A man was crushed in a boom lift in Sacramento yesterday, after he contacted the front overhanging wall of a store.
16.03.2011
Over the past two weeks or so we have been trying to dicover the fate of ALE’s 1,200 tonne Gottwald AK912.
Rotorua, New Zealand-based crane company Taslo Steel has been fined $22,000, following an accident last year.
The university of Notre Dame has been fined $77,500 for the fatal scissor lift accident last year.
15.03.2011
A man has died after a crane dropped a concrete panel on him in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada yesterday.
10.03.2011
There have been two serious loader crane accidents this week in Austria with a total of three seriously injured
09.03.2011
One man died and another is seriously injured after a scissor lit went over at a steel mill in Indiana.
08.03.2011
A man is critically ill in hospital after a bus struck the platform of the boom lift he was working from in central London.
04.03.2011
A man using a 60ft boom lift in San Francisco had a lucky escape yesterday after a wheel dropped into a void.
02.03.2011
A Chinese crane delivery ship has been ‘arrested’ by the U.S. Marshals Service after it damaged a quayside crane in Portsmouth Virginia.
24.02.2011
WorkSafeBC halved one fine and cancelled another for a fatal crane accident in Vancouver in 2008.
A military RT crane overturned after it slipped off of its trailer in a trading estate in Guam today.
22.02.2011