Crane Accident

A crane company owner who pleaded guilty to bribing the city’s crane inspector was sentenced today to serve two to six years in prison

The Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office, Thursday, released dramatic video of a crane crushing a deputy’s squad car in a chain reaction accident last week. The images of the accident at Hillsborough Avenue and 56th Street were captured by a security camera aboard a HART bus.

A mobile crane tipped over at a ConocoPhillips site in Hartford, Illinois on Thursday injuring the operator. The crane a Grove YardBoss YB7725 was said to be lifting pipes onto a trailer when it tipped.

The sight of a construction crane balanced vertically stopped people in their tracks at the Westminster Manor Retirement Community construction site Friday. A mobile crane tipped over backwards in the 4700 block of Jackson Avenue near Camp Mabry late Friday morning.

A commercial crane boom fell across the aft section of the cruiser Monterey at Norfolk Naval Station Monday as the operator was preparing to lift watertight doors off the deck, causing minor damage but no injuries. High winds were the apparent cause, according to Surface Force Atlantic.

The Hillsborough County Deputy who was injured in a traffic crash with a 41-ton crane remains in the hospitlal, but continues to improve. Deputy Deborah Walker was hospitalized after an accident involving several vehicles, including a city bus and a huge crane on September 16 in East Tampa.

The lattice boom of a foundation crane went over the back of the crane in an accident in Singapore today. Fortunately no one was hurt in the incident which occurred on a site near the Ten Mile Junction station in Bukit Panjang, North central Singapore.

A Crawler crane working on a barge in Ketchikan, Alaska overturned last week forcing two men into the water at Ward Cove near Ketchikan. The Coast Guard was called to find the two who apparently jumped overboard to avoid the falling crane on 50 metre barge Quartz Hill. The men clambered aboard the tug attached to the barge before the Coast Guard’s life boat arrived on the scene. There were no injuries.

A truck crane that ran a red traffic light caused a six car collision last week in Tampa, Florida. The crane, reportedly ran through a red light and crashed into the patrol car of a Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy and a four by four. Police have said that the crane’s air brakes appear to have failed causing the crane to plough through the lights and crash into traffic, dragging vehicles with it until it came to rest against a large bus and several other vehicles.

The crane was installing protective barriers along the wharf for smaller vessels to berth, when it went over the edge. The driver’s reactions were quick enough that he managed to jump clear before the crane went in to the 14.5 metre deep water and was uninjured.