A large mobile crane went over somewhere in Texas last week, from what appears to be obvious reasons.
25.11.2010 2
A reader in has Northern Ireland reported a near miss with a self-erecting tower crane this week.
24.11.2010
A loader crane left in a raised position brought a pedestrian bridge down onto other traffic in Helsinki yesterday.
23.11.2010
A court in the UK has fined a telehandler operator £7,000, while the building company he was working for was fined £7,500 plus £25,000 in costs following a fatal accident.
A man was injured earlier today in a crushing accident, while using a boom lift at the BAE Systems plant near Preston, UK.
18.11.2010
A fire ladder was called out yesterday in Hertfordshire, UK, to rescue two men stranded in a van mounted lift.
17.11.2010 1
A runaway crane smashed into a bus yesterday in Taiwan killing four people and injuring 13.
16.11.2010
A fire department’s mobile crane turned over while lifting artwork at Buda castle on Wednesday - outriggers?
12.11.2010 2
A four axle truck crane went over backwards in Dexter Oregon on Friday – why? No outriggers deployed.
10.11.2010
A man died yesterday after he was crushed between a mobile crane and its trailing boom dolly in Virginia.
This story or rather photos are for our contractor readers, they are not related to lifting but we could not resist.
08.11.2010
A large crawler crane tipped over on a South Wales wind farm site last week, details are still sketchy.
04.11.2010 3
The superstructure of boom/utility truck ripped free from its truck in Augusta Georgia yesterday.
03.11.2010 1
A utility worker in Midland, Texas died on Thursday after he was thrown from the platform of his truck mounted lift.
30.10.2010
A man whose boom lift was struck by a passing truck is alive and relatively unharmed thanks to his harness and short lanyard
29.10.2010
A 20 year old man died after the scissor lift he was using blew over while filming football practice at Notre Dame University in Indiana,
29.10.2010 1
A boom truck tipped over on Cap Cod, Massachussets, after the ground gave way beneath one of its outriggers.
28.10.2010
A tower crane accident occurred in Cologne this weekend causing damage to a building and a car.
25.10.2010
UK based Speedy Hire has supplied an on-site rental facility to Al Futtaim Carillion's, Cairo Festival City.
The operator of a Rough Terrain crane was rescued from his cab by firemen using a fire ladder yesterday.
22.10.2010
A 70 ton truck crane tipped over and sliced through a house in North Carolina yesterday while lifting a tree.
22.10.2010 1
A crane operator died yesterday after his crane overturned near the town of Mountain Pine, Arkansas
21.10.2010
A man was electrocuted yesterday in Michigan after touching overhead power lines from a trailer lift
19.10.2010
A man died on Sunday from an overhead crushing accident while operating a lift near York Pennsylvania.
