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
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
