Crane Incident

A four axle All Terrain crane overturned yesterday in the town of Ober-Ramstadt, near Darmstadt, thankfully no one was injured.

A man walking down a street had a near miss when a falling crane boom/tower missed him by millimetres in a Russian video.

Two cranes collapsed at VT Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Wednesday, injuring five people including a crane operator who was seriously hurt and remains in hospital. All five are employees of VT Halter Marine.

One man is dead and another seriously injured after a tower crane overturned in the town of Saint-Sulpice, Switzerland yesterday.

A mobile crane overturned in West Fargo, North Dakota, yesterday, with the boom landing on a new building causing considerable damage. Thankfully no one was seriously hurt in the incident.

A self-erecting tower crane lost its balance yesterday in Ulm-Böfingen, Southern Germany and overturned, thankfully no one was injured.

A five axle All Terrain crane overturned in the city of Antofagasta, Northern Chile on Saturday when the ground gave way beneath one of the outriggers.

A crane / boom truck working on interstate 69 near Indianapolis, Indiana overturned across a dividing barrier yesterday striking a passing car.

A boom truck working in a street in Boston, Massachusetts, last week overturned when it slewed over the short rigged side of the crane.

Another All Terrain crane became a casualty of narrow wind farm approach roads in Ireland last week.

A crane owned by McKinney’s Crane Hire of Strabane, Northern Ireland was travelling to or from a remote wind farm in Croagh, County Donegal, when the edge of the road gave way causing it tip onto its side. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident.