A man was seriously injured on Friday when the jib of a tower crane came down in Singapore.
09.04.2012
A small jack-up barge overturned on Friday as it tried to load a crane at Liberty Island in New York harbour.
08.04.2012 1
The 51 metre boom of a large crawler crane came down last night in Manhattan New York, killing one man
04.04.2012
OSHA has cited Bath Iron Works of Maine, with $171,300 of fines for breaking safety rules, including using aerial lifts without harnesses.
02.04.2012
A crane collided with the Newcastle link road bridge in New South Wales, Australia earlier this morning.
30.03.2012
A man is missing after he and the aerial lift he was using fell off of a barge in the Mississippi River yesterday.
28.03.2012
The results of an investigation into a crane and work at height incident in Norway have been published.
27.03.2012
A Rough Terrain crane fell into a river from a temporary bridge in Osaka, Japan killing the operator yesterday.
21.03.2012
Word is coming in of brand new 250 tonne crane being dropped during unloading at a port in Uruguay.
20.03.2012
In the USA federal OSHA has cited telephone conglomerate Verizon for the maximum fine of $140,700
The UK CPA, says that in principle, it is in favour of an annual roadworthiness test for mobile cranes.
19.03.2012
A bucket truck overturned in Florida yesterday after the operator failed to stow the boom before driving off.
16.03.2012
A man died in New Hampshire yesterday when his scissor lift was overturned by a crane hook.
15.03.2012 1
Reports of a fatal crane accident in County Donegal yesterday, may in fact have involved an excavator?
14.03.2012 1
A man died last week after falling from a ladder at an engineering company in Flintshire, UK.
13.03.2012
D&G cranes of Australia has issued a safety alert relating to a tower bolt failure.
13.03.2012 3
The inquest into the fatal Battersea, tower crane collapse in 2006, has returned a narrative verdict.
13.03.2012 1
A man has died after a steel fabrication dropped on him from a crane in Barrow in Furness, UK.
12.03.2012
A small crawler crane has overturned while working on earthquake damage in Christchurch, New Zealand.
11.03.2012
Two men escaped with burns after the boom of their loader crane contacted overhead power lines in Malaysia.
08.03.2012
An incorrect manual appears to have been at the root of the fatal 2006 Battersea crane collapse in London.
06.03.2012
A Crane boom came down onto power lines yesterday in the city of Surgut, Siberia, cutting off electricity.
05.03.2012
The inquest into the deaths of two men in the 2006 tower crane collapse in London will open today.
Several of you sent an unfortunate video of a container handling fork-truck lifting a 45ft container.
01.03.2012 1
