Crane Accident

A tower crane collapse has left two men dead and two seriously injured on the National Gallery site in Singapore. A third man has more minor injuries.

German crane rental company Scholpp has issued a statement regarding the overturn of one of its cranes while lifting 16 people in a gondola on June 22nd.

Lunchtime diners had an amazing escape when a huge crane smashed through the roof of a McDonald’s restaurant Friday.

A tower crane has crashed on a traffic lane at the crossing of Altysarin and Marechek streets in Almaty, Lenta.kz reports.

A Rough Terrain crane working on Interstate highway I17 near Bumble Bee, to the north of Phoenix, Arizona, overturned yesterday.

A 50 tonne capacity articulated crane overturned last week while making a lift in Switzerland.

A boom truck overturned onto a house in Tequesta, Florida, (north of Palm Beach) yesterday, while lifting an air conditioning unit. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident.

The boom of a crawler crane dropped across a road onto a parked car on Saturday in the town of Subang Jaya, Malaysia- a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

A mobile crane overturned in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday while lifting steel bars, its jib cab down on a parked van. Fortunately no one was injured in the incident.

A large mobile crane caught fire yesterday near Penrith, Cumbria, in the UK causing a major road closure.