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
A man had a lucky escape last week when the narrow track spider lift he was moving tipped over onto him.
The top of a tower crane broke free at a stadium in Stuttgart on Saturday seriously injuring the operator.
21.02.2011
A man fell around 50 metre to his death in Plymouth, Devon, after breaking into the site on Thursday night.
19.02.2011
We have received reports of at least five chassis failures on Land Rovers fitted with platforms.
18.02.2011
A man was electrocuted yesterday in northern Queensland, when the crane he was using touched overhead power lines.
16.02.2011
A judge has upheld criminal manslaughter charges against New York crane owner James Lomma and mechanic Tibor Varganyi.
A truck carrying a boom lift clipped A railway bridge this morning near Banbury, UK, pulling part of it down.
15.02.2011
