Crane Accident

A mother and daughter have died and three men were injured after a mast climber collapsed in Liege, Belgium yesterday. According to the reports that we have been sent the mast climber or material hoist was working on the facade of the Media City site in Liege yesterday morning.

A crawler crane tipped over yesterday in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada no one was injured in the incident which occurred on the site of the new Strandherd Bridge.

The accident happened on September 3, but was only revealed after enquiries from the Sunday Herald following a tip-off from insiders. HMS Astute, the Royal Navy’s latest reactor-driven submarine, was hit by a ramp slipping from a crane during loading.

A crane at a construction site in Haverhill, Massachusetts collapsed this morning just before 8:00 a.m. The top part of the crane collapsed and landed on the cab of the crane on Moulton Way.

Three people were injured yesterday after a steel beam fell onto a boom lift on a science park site on the Yale university campus in New Haven Connecticut. The two people in the platform were wearing harnesses and remained in the basket but suffered injuries from the falling beam

Jamie Kirchen was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He was removing the slings from the pallet when the unsecured joists on which he was standing gave way under the weight of the load.was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He suffered multiple fractures including to his pelvis and lost part of his bowel.

A number of train passengers were injured yesterday in Hong Kong when the 40 metre boom of a Rough Terrain crane struck the carriages of a light rail transit and brought down overhead power lines after it tipped over.

A fire broke out at a steel facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana after a crane boom came into contact with high tension overhead power lines yesterday.

The 40-foot wall of sand and clay where a portion of Route 136 collapsed Thursday is so unstable that the motor of a crane that plunged from the road to the river is still running.

A man was injured in Gedling, Nottingham yesterday after a crane lifting a hot tub off the back of a delivery truck and into position tipped. The 20 year old man – who was helping deliver the hot tub – was trapped against the wall of a bungalow while the crane boom landed on the bungalow roof and the hot tub landed in the garden.