Crane Accident

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening.

A mobile crane overturned at a parking garage site in the Simei area of Singapore yesterday. The crane’s boom came to rest on the structure of the parking deck and no one was injured in the incident.

A man was seriously injured in Calgary on Thursday after he was crushed by a lattice boom section being loaded onto a truck.

A 40 tonne crawler crane fell, the boom coming down on an area where people were working, at Broad Construction’s $50 million (£33 million) redevelopment of Mt Sheridan Plaza, Cairns, Australia. Fortunately no one was injured.

A BURY firm has been fined £40,000 after a horrific crane accident left a man severely injured. David Collins is now a paraplegic after suffering serious injuries to his head, back and legs when metal tubes weighing as much as a transit van fell on top of him.

Three men were rescued from a truck crane after the it tipped over rearwards, leaving the men stranded in the carrier cab around eight metres or more off the ground.

It has been reported that on Christmas Eve a tower crane was left in a precarious position and nearby flats evacuated in Allard Way, Saffron Walden, Essex after part of the crane collapsed.

A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured.

A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week. The cause? – poor outrigger set up.

A lattice crane boom collapsed yesterday on a job in Garrett Indiana after its load suddenly freed after it hung up.