Yet another man has died through not wearing a harness in a boom lift, while a second man is seriously injured.
16.05.2006
Doyle Construction of Welwyn Garden City and Herts and Exterior International of London, were fined £350,000 following a fatal lifting accident.
09.05.2006
A man was killed yesterday on the A1306 when a 30 tonne bridge section was dropped by a crane.
10.04.2006
Otis Lifts was fined £400,000 plus £145,000 costs after two employees fell down a lift shaft to their deaths.
07.04.2006
Teupen has informed its customers that the Leo 50, has been cleared to go back to work, following an order it issued at the end of last week to immediately withdraw them from service.
31.03.2006
For the past few weeks we have received emails and calls on first one and then a second accident involving a 50ft scissor lift in the UK.
13.02.2006
A Coroner in Tasmania has called for tractor cranes to be recalled and fitted with extra indication equipment, following the death of a rigger.
23.01.2006
An employee at the JCB plant in Cheadle Staffordshire, was killed in an accident at the facility last week.
20.11.2005
An 80t All Terrain overturned and sliced into a family home on Saturday, when an outrigger gave way, while lifting a hot tub into a back garden
03.10.2005
Paolo de Nicola, the Italian producer of large gantry type cranes, used in bridge construction has filed for protection under Italy’s bankruptcy laws
15.08.2005
Seven men were killed and three are still missing, while 10 others were injured, when a gantry crane collapsed during a lift on the second Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge on the Mekong River.
24.07.2005
Four companies have been fined a total of £90,000 in the UK for a fataility that occurred during the loading of "off hired" rental equipment
07.04.2005
A tower crane collapsed on a job site at Durrington High School in Worthing, West Sussex, at around 10:30 am this morning killing two workmen.
11.02.2005
A 210ft (70 metre) dock crane collapsed yesterday onto the deck of HMS Invincible in Portsmouth naval base. The load that broke the crane? A Mobile Elevating Work Platform!
10.11.2004
Three construction companies have today been fined a total of £100,000 for the death of a worker due to the lack of guardrailing on a scaffold on the channel Tunnel rail link.
05.10.2004
The contractor in the 915t crane collapse in Toledo Ohio earlier this year has been found guilty of failing to comply with the manufacturer's instructions
06.08.2004
Two Kent engineers, who were injured when a German-made 100 tonne capacity Kirow 810(UK) rail-mounted crane toppled over at Clapham Junction in January, are to sue the crane’s owner Balfour Beatty Rail.
14.06.2004
The cause of the collapse of a 915t, Italian launching gantry/crane in Toledo, Ohio, last February is still unknown following analysis of its key components
19.04.2004
A man has died on the New Welsh Assembly building site after falling three metres from a ladder.
16.03.2004
A man fell almost 10 metres when the "crane", or most likely a forklift or telehandler, he was working from, toppled over.
04.03.2004
Ireland's HSA is investigating a fatal incident involving “heavy mobile lifting equipment” at the ESB power plant in Shannonbridge, County Offaly yesterday
04.02.2004
The UK’s largest rail crane collapsed early this week, blocking two of London’s busiest rail lines at Clapham Junction.
08.01.2004
Mike Williams, principal inspector for Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a statement following the recent Canary Wharf tower crane collpase inquest at St Pancras Coroner’s Court, London.
18.11.2003
The collapse of a luffing jib tower crane at Canary Wharf which claimed the lives of three construction workers in May 2000 was an accident, according to an inquest at London’s St Pancras Coroners Court.
17.11.2003
