We added a dramatic new video to our video library earlier this week here is a link to it with a little background.
11.12.2010
A Californian company has been fined $17,550 for an electrical accident that killed one employee and injured another.
10.12.2010
A man using a utility boom in Ohio, survived a massive impact yesterday thanks to his use of harness.
09.12.2010
A crane has fallen into a drainage channel in Cambridgeshire, UK today killing the operator.
08.12.2010
A man died this morning after he was catapulted from the platform of a boom lift in Western Australia.
Two men died last week in Dubai when the suspended platform they were using for cladding work failed.
04.12.2010
A crane has collapsed on the Jiaxing-Shaoxing Bridge in China's Zhejiang Province this morning.
03.12.2010 1
A 55 ton Rough Terrain crane tipped over at the Halifax shipyard in Nova Scotia, Canada earlier today.
02.12.2010
Two men trimming tree limbs from a platform were injured yesterday when their lift went over in Dorset, UK.
A man using an aerila lift in Massachusetts was airlifted to hospital yesterday after touching an overhead power line.
29.11.2010
A 45 metre free standing tower crane went over in Studen in the Canton of Bern last week injuring three.
27.11.2010 1
Reports have come in about another crushing accident in a boom lift, this time in Nelson, New Zealand.
25.11.2010
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
