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
Two men were injured and one died when a crawler crane’s jib came down onto a roof in Singapore yesterday.
29.02.2012
A crane operator died yesterday in Whitby, Canada, after the boom of his crane came down on him.
24.02.2012
Many of you have sent a link to a video of a truck and telescopic loader crane travelling with boom up!
22.02.2012
A fatality has occurred this morning in Perth, W. Australia, after a long jib failed on a truck mounted lift.
21.02.2012 1
A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres.
20.02.2012
A crane failure while lifting a 5 tonne box on Sunday, caused the closure of six streets in San Francisco.
20.02.2012 1
Jimmy Lomma, owner of New York Crane/J.F. Lomma Crane has formally waived his right to a trial by jury.
19.02.2012
We have been sent a story from December in which a crane was subjected to a serious shock loading.
A man using an aerial lift was electrocuted last week in the village of Asch, in Gelderland, the Netherlands
18.02.2012
A 20 year-old has died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas.
17.02.2012
A failed crane hoist cable dropped three large steel beams around 140 metres at the WTC site in New York.
16.02.2012
A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today,
A loader crane caught fire in Amsterdam after its boom became entangled in tram power lines.
13.02.2012
