Crane Accident

The lattice boom and jib of a crawler crane came crasing down onto a jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday, three men were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

A tower crane fell around 36 storeys yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after some of the crane’s counterweight fell off.

Three people were seriously injured in Norway yesterday after falling between 35 and 40 metres from a man basket suspended from a crane.

Information has come in concerning a large lattice crawler crane that tipped in Hollywood Florida on Wednesday evening.

The boom of a 200 tonne lattice crawler crane dropped its load and collapsed onto a boom lift and barge in Nova Scotia on Thursday.

A boom truck crashed into the roof of a house in Concord New Hampshire yesterday as it attempted to lift parts of a tree from the rear garden.

A telescopic crawler crane overturned yesterday while being loaded onto a transport trailer in Connecticut.

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening.

A mobile crane overturned at a parking garage site in the Simei area of Singapore yesterday. The crane’s boom came to rest on the structure of the parking deck and no one was injured in the incident.

A man was seriously injured in Calgary on Thursday after he was crushed by a lattice boom section being loaded onto a truck.