We have been sent a link to a video clip that while sending a strong safety message is somewhat distressing.
05.09.2011
A crane travelling to a wind farm site came off the road this weekend causing detours of up to 80 miles.
05.09.2011 1
A crane has gone over while working on a ride at the Scandia Fun centre in Sacramento California, yesterday
31.08.2011
A Rough Terrain crane overturned yesterday on a slipway alongside the Genesee river in New York State.
30.08.2011 1
A video of an accident this Saturday shows two men surviving thanks to their harnesses and lanyards.
29.08.2011 1
Four men were injured earlier today when a large scaffold platform collapsed on a construction site in Telford.
25.08.2011
Two cranes tipped over yesterday in separate incidents in the state of Vermont, in one a boom came down on a store.
24.08.2011 1
An injured tower crane rigger was rescued from the jib tip of a 50 metre high tower crane in Washington DC today.
23.08.2011
We have received some photographs of a structural failure on a crane that we have never seen before.
19.08.2011
A double deck bus collided with a load of rebar being lifted by a tower crane on a site in Sidcup, Kent yesterday.
19.08.2011 1
A Rough Terrain crane overturned in Travis on Staten Island New York yesterday, no one was injured.
18.08.2011
A truck crashed through the third floor wall of the New York Sanitation workshops in Queens yesterday.
17.08.2011
A man died on Tuesday after he was struck by a falling crane boom off the coast of Texas.
A man died on Monday after he touched an overhead power line as he operated an aerial lift in Minnesota.
A man working on a large advertising hording has died after falling around 24 metres from a work platform in Texas.
16.08.2011
The operator who died in the crane accident yesterday at the Scout Moor wind farm in Edenfield, UK has been named.
16.08.2011 4
A crane operator died after his crane ran away on a steep incline at a quarry/windfarm in Rossendale, near Bury, UK.
15.08.2011 36
We have a little more information and some photographs of the UK wind farm incident in June.
14.08.2011 12
A man operating a loader crane from a seated control station was flung into an excavation earlier this week
11.08.2011
A rental company delivery driver was catapulted out of a boom lift as he was conducting a hand over this weekend.
09.08.2011
Local sources say that a man who died at a chipboard plant near Liverpool was using a boom lift at the time.
06.08.2011
Seven men working on a hydroelectric plant in Brazil had a lucky escape on Monday after a crane dropped its load.
04.08.2011
The safety systems on a modern boom lift caused a minor drama in the English town of Grimsby this week
03.08.2011
A lattice crawler crane rigged with around 60 metres of boom flipped over yesterday in Stafford, Virginia.