A tower crane accident occurred in Cologne this weekend causing damage to a building and a car below, but thankfully no injuries were reported. We have few details on the accident, which occurred in the Rudolfplatz in central Cologne on Saturday.
A man was seriously injured last week in Choctaw, Oklahoma after a boom section landed on him. The accident happened on a bridge repair project when a lattice crane boom section fell on him. The section was being lifted by a 360 degree tracked excavator when it slipped, struck the man on the head and then pinned him to the ground.
A crane operator working for a roofing contractor is in hospital today with severe burns after the boom of his truck crane came into contact with power lines in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The accident, which happened on Monday night, also cut power to thousands of homes within a 30 block area.
The Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office, Thursday, released dramatic video of a crane crushing a deputy’s squad car in a chain reaction accident last week. The images of the accident at Hillsborough Avenue and 56th Street were captured by a security camera aboard a HART bus.
The sight of a construction crane balanced vertically stopped people in their tracks at the Westminster Manor Retirement Community construction site Friday. A mobile crane tipped over backwards in the 4700 block of Jackson Avenue near Camp Mabry late Friday morning.
A commercial crane boom fell across the aft section of the cruiser Monterey at Norfolk Naval Station Monday as the operator was preparing to lift watertight doors off the deck, causing minor damage but no injuries. High winds were the apparent cause, according to Surface Force Atlantic.
The Hillsborough County Deputy who was injured in a traffic crash with a 41-ton crane remains in the hospitlal, but continues to improve. Deputy Deborah Walker was hospitalized after an accident involving several vehicles, including a city bus and a huge crane on September 16 in East Tampa.
The accident happened near Northeast 10th Street and Hiwassee Road in Choctaw. Workers said a construction crew was repairing a bridge when part of a crane fell on the man’s head. Sky5 flew over the scene, and emergency personnel were taking a man to an ambulance by stretcher
The lattice boom of a foundation crane went over the back of the crane in an accident in Singapore today. Fortunately no one was hurt in the incident which occurred on a site near the Ten Mile Junction station in Bukit Panjang, North central Singapore.
A Crawler crane working on a barge in Ketchikan, Alaska overturned last week forcing two men into the water at Ward Cove near Ketchikan. The Coast Guard was called to find the two who apparently jumped overboard to avoid the falling crane on 50 metre barge Quartz Hill. The men clambered aboard the tug attached to the barge before the Coast Guard’s life boat arrived on the scene. There were no injuries.