Crane Incident

A heavy storm in northern Belgium on Saturday took down two tower cranes at the site of a new hospital in Oekene, Roselare.

A woman was badly injured when she drove out in front of a crane yesterday in Chelsea, Maine.

A loader crane overturned while lifting a generator in the city of Bath early yesterday.

An All Terrain crane slipped off a narrow country road near Saint Vallier (Charente) in South East France yesterday, recovering it is proving to be something of a challenge.

A mobile crane caught fire on the M1 Motorway in the UK yesterday, blocking one lane on the northbound exit slip-road/ramp at junction 26.

A truck driver travelling with a fully rigged lattice crawler crane on his trailer, was surprised last week in the Netherlands, when the crane boom caught up on a high tension overhead power line.

One man died and another was injured when a crawler crane overturned at a metro construction site in Saidapet, Chennai, India today.

A crane overturned this morning in Phuket City, Thailand, cutting off a high voltage power line, but it is hard to see exactly what happened.

CONSTRUCTION on the state’s biggest building site in 20 years is in turmoil after work was suspended following the third crane accident at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital in three weeks.

A four axle All Terrain crane overturned yesterday on the D-149 near Cognac in South West France.