A 79 year old man was killed when a crane he was watching tipped over onto his car in Oklahoma City yesterday.
25.07.2008
Sven people were killed today after a large container crane collapsed during its erection at the port of Cai Lan in Vietnam.
15.07.2008
An operator managed to jump clear as his crawler crane tipped over sideways last week on the north pier of Kilkeel harbour in Northern Ireland.
05.07.2008
With most of our resources tied up at Vertikal Days last week we missed reports of two crane accidents that you sent us. Here they are.
30.06.2008
A worker in Texas, USA was killed when a crane hook plummeted to the ground.
12.06.2008
The luffing jib of a lattice tower boom on a mobile crane dropped yesterday injuring a crane worker in Miami.
10.06.2008
Updated! A tower crane has fallen over in New York City damaging several buildings, killing two and injuring two others.
30.05.2008
A man has been badly burned after touching overhead power lines while working from a truck mounted platform in St Paul, Minnesota.
26.05.2008
A man working on street lights was thrown some 40 metres from his aerial work platform today when it was hit by a truck.
18.04.2008
A crane at the Mitsui shipyard in Ichihara, Japan has been blown over by strong winds
A crane tipped yesterday on a housing development in Walsall, UK, after the ground gave way under one of its outriggers.
08.04.2008
An accident during a tower crane climb in Miami has left two men dead and five others injured.
26.03.2008
Power was cut in Miami yesterday afternoon after a man operating a boom truck hit the overhead power lines.
24.03.2008
An 80 tonne All Terrain crane tipped over as it participated in a multiple crane lift of a bridge beam.
08.03.2008
A utility employee was injured yesterday after he was catapulted from a work platform after it was clipped by a truck in Sacramento.
21.01.2008
A truck mounted boom failure has killed one operator and injured another on an industrial facility near Rome.
03.12.2007
A man was burned severely today in Sacramento, California as he was trying to free balloons from high voltage power lines from an aerial work platform.
14.11.2007
An experienced lineman working from an aerial lift in Shannon New Zealand was electrocuted on Monday
13.11.2007
Seven construction workers were killed yesterday in Dubai, when a bridge collapsed after being hit by a crane.
09.11.2007
A container straddle carrier crane tipped over at Tilbury docks near London yesterday trapping the driver.
23.10.2007
A plaque will be unveiled today at Wembley stadium in memory of Patrick O’Sullivan who died when a crane collided with a scaffold platform
12.10.2007 1
A crane tipped over this week while removing a portable building at a school in Suffolk.
01.09.2007
A man died and another is seriously injured after a limb they cut from a tree touched power cables.
22.08.2007
The driver of an Underbridge inspection platform employed by ES Platforms has been charged with endangering public safety following an incident in February
24.07.2007
