Crane Accident

A truck crane that ran a red traffic light caused a six car collision last week in Tampa, Florida. The crane, reportedly ran through a red light and crashed into the patrol car of a Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputy and a four by four. Police have said that the crane’s air brakes appear to have failed causing the crane to plough through the lights and crash into traffic, dragging vehicles with it until it came to rest against a large bus and several other vehicles.

The accident happened on September 3, but was only revealed after enquiries from the Sunday Herald following a tip-off from insiders. HMS Astute, the Royal Navy’s latest reactor-driven submarine, was hit by a ramp slipping from a crane during loading.

A crane at a construction site in Haverhill, Massachusetts collapsed this morning just before 8:00 a.m. The top part of the crane collapsed and landed on the cab of the crane on Moulton Way.

Three people were injured yesterday after a steel beam fell onto a boom lift on a science park site on the Yale university campus in New Haven Connecticut. The two people in the platform were wearing harnesses and remained in the basket but suffered injuries from the falling beam

A number of train passengers were injured yesterday in Hong Kong when the 40 metre boom of a Rough Terrain crane struck the carriages of a light rail transit and brought down overhead power lines after it tipped over.

The 40-foot wall of sand and clay where a portion of Route 136 collapsed Thursday is so unstable that the motor of a crane that plunged from the road to the river is still running.

A 42 year old man, Michael Parsons, was killed and another injured as they were storing the crane for the night, reports say that “something fell from the crane and landed on the two men

One man died and two were injured when a boom truck dropped a large beam that it was placing on a site in Burnaby, near Vancouver, Canada

The crane, a three axle truck mount, was working in a small street in the city when the road surface gave way. Local reports suggest that recent heavy rains may have undermined the road sub structure, essentially creating a void into which the crane fell. Thankfully no one was injured in the accident.

The crane a three axle truck mount, owned by locally based RH Marlin, was set up in the gravel garden to the rear of the Rathskeller restaurant at the Athenaeum building in the 400 block of East Michigan street.