Crane Accident

This week saw another crane overturn while attempting to lift tree parts from the rear of a private home.

A man was injured yesterday in a crane accident in Aberdeen, Scotland. The incident at the Beach Leisure Centre, reportedly involved a falling load landing on his legs, although details…

A crawler crane working on a bridge in Monroe, Louisiana, overturned yesterday as the ground gave way beneath its tracks.

A mobile crane overturned in Toronto, Canada yesterday afternoon, bringing down live overhead power lines and six poles, some of which landed on a passing bus, trapping its 30 occupants.

A boom truck shut down a Burlington Northern Santa Fe line in the Chicago area after it overturned.

Two construction workers were seriously injured and another knocked unconscious when a tower collapsed on a building site in Bangkok, Thailand on Friday.

There has been another fatal crane incident on one of India’s major metro projects in Chennai last Wednesday night.

Three workers were killed after a crane collapsed at a construction site in northwest China’s Gansu province on Saturday, local authorities said.

A mechanic who ordered a critical part for a tower crane that collapsed on the Upper East Side four years ago, killing two workers, avoided jail time on Tuesday under the terms of a plea bargain.

A large boom truck overturned in the East Flat Rock area of Hendersonville North Carolina yesterday, slicing a house in two. Thankfully no one was injured.