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
UK ship repair yard, A&P Falmouth has been hit with £106,500 in fines and costs following a fatal crane accident in 2006
15.11.2009
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
The UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has announced today that it will not prosecute anyone in the Liverpool tower crane accident of January 2007.
17.10.2008
A man has died at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy, near Boston, when the leg of a Goliath crane was dropped as it was being dismantled.
14.08.2008
The boom of a crawler crane came crashing down on a barge on a bridge contract in New Bern, North Carolina on Monday. One man was injured but not seriously
13.08.2008
The boom of a crawler crane that went over the back at a Hilton-Head marina on Monday and came crashing down on two boats.
06.08.2008
A workman died yesterday in Texas, when the boom lift he was working from was struck by a falling crane, tipping it over.
30.07.2008
Apollo Cradles and Bradway Construction have been hit with fines and costs totalling over £200,000 today.
29.07.2008
