Worksafe Queensland has issued a safety bulletin on jib inspections for Haulotte H16TPX boom lifts
20.08.2012
The Workers Compensation Board of British Columbia is suing boom truck manufacturer Elliott Equipment
19.08.2012
A crane overturned in Newark, New Jersey yesterday while removing a tree from the back yard of a house.
17.08.2012
A man was left in a critical condition after falling 15 metres from a crane in La Quinta, California Wednesday night.
A boom truck shut down a Burlington Northern Santa Fe line in the Chicago area after it overturned.
16.08.2012 1
Two employees were seriously injured when a tower collapsed on a building site in Bangkok on Friday.
14.08.2012
Tibor Varganyi the mechanic involved in the fatal New York tower crane failure in May 2008 has been sentenced.
13.08.2012
There has been another fatal crane incident on one of India’s major metro projects, this time in Chennai.
13.08.2012 1
A 55-tonne crawler crane working on a barge in Milford Sound overturned last week after the barge shifted.
12.08.2012
An articulated crane overturned earlier this week in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
10.08.2012
A man is in critical condition after falling from an aerial lift yesterday near Royston in the UK.
09.08.2012
A large telehandler overturned in San Franciso’s Tenderloin district on Friday, no one was injured.
05.08.2012
A man fell to his death from a scissor lift in an old shopping mall in West Palm Beach Florida yesterday.
02.08.2012
The owner of a tree company died while his colleague was injured after the bucket truck they were using overturned in Georgia, USA.
When workmen in Fairbanks Alaska found their crane boom badly damaged they didn’t know what to think.
30.07.2012
A man has died after a cable supposedly failed on a tower crane in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
An 80ft boom lift overturned in George Town, Grand Cayman yesterday injuring the operator.
29.07.2012
IPAF’s accident reporting database has logged 17 fatal incidents involving work platforms so far this year.
A large boom truck overturned in North Carolina yesterday slicing a house in two.
26.07.2012
A man was killed this week after falling from the platform of an aerial lift as he attempted to lift a tree.
An eight axle All Terrain crane overturned last week on a wind farm near Wöhrden North Germany.
24.07.2012 3
An accident at the University of Washington in Seattle on Saturday was not a crane in spite of the reports.
22.07.2012
A Rough Terrain crane went over yesterday at a medical centre site in Boston, Massachusetts.
17.07.2012 4
A utility man was electrocuted in Shakopee, Minnesota, while three colleagues received serious shocks.
17.07.2012
