Crane Accident

The mechanic blamed for a fatal, 2008 tower crane collapse on East 91st St. will not go to jail providing he cooperates against his millionaire magnate boss, James Frank Lomma, at a manslaughter trial now set for December, it was revealed today.

The accident involved a 65-year-old foreman who worked for the formwork specialist Bosform of Yatala. He was crushed by a large shuttering form which dropped from a crane at a height of 20 metres or more. According to local reports a lifting eye on the formwork gave way, causing it to fall.

A crane operator died earlier today after the crane he was operating overturned at Tilbury Docks in the UK. We do not know what type of crane, but do know that it had an elevated cab and that it turned over onto its side.

A crane overturned yesterday in a suburb of Darwin, in the Northern Territory, Australia, dumping the pool it was lifting, after one of its outriggers gave way

The crane a Zoomlion QUY 1000 crawler crane owned by Ningxia Tianxin Construction and development was lifting a 5MW wind turbine nacelle at the production facility of Sinovel where it was made. The load was recorded as 318 tonnes which was within the cranes capacity.

One man is confirmed dead and rescue crews managed to free another after a crane toppled over at a construction site at York University in Toronto on Tuesday afternoon.

A tower crane has tipped over at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah landing on the new buildings it was helping to construct.

The incident occurred under a highway overpass when the crane’s superstructure seems to have slewed over the side of the truck causing it to lose stability. The crane appears to be an old Lima lattice truck crane and if so must be somewhere around 30 years old – if not more.

The collapse occurred around midnight, when the crane, located on the site of a new 20 floor hotel on the opposite side of the street from the affected homes, went over from its base. One report suggests that very strong winds may have played a part on the collapse which was clearly casued by a failure of the crane’s foundation.

The 20 metre high Potain crane, had been working on the construction of a car park. A mobile crane from Waikato cranes was preparing to remove the jib when something went wrong and the jib fell into Pembroke Street. It was still attached to the tower, but the pendants clearly were not. We do not know if its slings that gave way or the erectors made a mistake in the sequence of dismantling?