Crane Accident

A boom truck overturned in Mount Vernon, Virginia yesterday, injuring two people, its boom came to rest on a church.

A large boom truck tipped over in Haddonfield, New Jersey yesterday while removing a tree from the back yard of a house.

A 50 tonne mobile crane has overturned while lifting a garbage disposal truck in Hörgertshausen, Germany, on Monday.

A 90 tonne All Terrain crane overturned into canal in Bradford, UK, on Friday while travelling to a lift.

A crawler crane overturned near Omaha, Nebraska yesterday dumping two men into the Missouri River, while trapping the crane operator in his cab.

A man aged 45 has died after falling from an aerial work platform that was struck by an overhead crane at a facility in Bobstadt, north of Mannheim in Germany, last Tuesday.

A five axle Faun AT has overturned on a construction site in Lilleakerveien, Oslo, Norway.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned at a reservoir operated by Louisville Water Company in Kentucky yesterday.

A helicopter has crashed into a luffing jib tower crane in Vauxhall, London, bringing down its jib. The crane is a Comedil owned by the main contractor Brookfield multiplex.

The operator of the crawler crane that collapsed in New York on Wednesday has been blamed for overloading the crane. A statement from the Department of Buildings claims that the crane was lifting a load of 23,900lbs (10.8 tonnes), when the crane’s maximum capacity was around half that amount.