Crane Accident

A large loader crane overturned in Heerde, the Netherlands today after one of its outrigger beams snapped. The boom came down onto the roof of a house killing one of the men working on the roof.

truck crane overturned in Shreveport, Louisiana yesterday, dropping its boom into the lobby of a retirement home. The telescopic crane, a four axle Grove truck crane, said to be owned and operated by Joyce Crane, apparently had around 30 metres of its main boom extended and was installing an air conditioning unit when it lost stability.

A brand new tower crane went over last week in Mumbai, India landing on a residential apartment block. The crane collapsed at a job in the Haji Kasam Chawl area of the city, and is said to have injured up to six people. At least three of which were immediately rushed to hospital.

A lattice boom crane has overturned at the Port of Invergordon in Scotland this afternoon, thankfully no one was injured in the incident.

A 500 ton All Terrain crane has overturned at the National Cathedral in Washington DC. The crane a 500 ton Liebherr, the flagship of Maryland based Crane Service Company, had been assisting with repair work on the cathedral from damage caused during the recent earthquake. It was rigged with almost full luffing jib and Y-Guy boom support system and had just placed a load of steelwork onto the cathedral roof.

A crane travelling to a wind farm site came off the road this weekend causing detours of up to 80 miles. The crane was travelling on the A822 towards the Griffin wind farm in Aberfeldy when the side of the road gave way causing its near side wheels to slip into a ditch.

A four axle AT crane overturned at a Shell facility in New Plymouth, New Zealand earlier today, no one was injured in the incident.The crane owned, by Titan crane hire, was working at the Shell Todd tank farm when it went over. It is not clear what caused the crane to lose stability, the outriggers appear to have been properly set with wood mats under each jack.

A crane has gone over while working on a ride at the Scandia Fun centre in Sacramento California, yesterday while attempting to remove a large component from the ride. – the Scandia Screamer.

An Amtrak train struck a truck crane in a remote part of southwest Nebraska on Friday, injuring passengers. The train, the California Zephyr travelling between San Francisco and Chicago, was carrying 175 passengers and 17 crew when it hit the crane, derailing the two engines and half of the 10 carriages, while ripping the superstructure off of the crane.

Two cranes tipped over yesterday in separate incidents in the state of Vermont, in one a boom came down on a store. The first was a large National Crane boom truck owned Vermont Structural buildings of St Albans which overturned as it was preparing to lift a one tonne steel beam in the town of Georgia.