Crane Accident

A tower crane has crashed on a traffic lane at the crossing of Altysarin and Marechek streets in Almaty, Lenta.kz reports.

A 50 tonne capacity articulated crane overturned last week while making a lift in Switzerland.

A boom truck overturned onto a house in Tequesta, Florida, (north of Palm Beach) yesterday, while lifting an air conditioning unit. Thankfully no one was hurt in the incident.

The boom of a crawler crane dropped across a road onto a parked car on Saturday in the town of Subang Jaya, Malaysia- a suburb of Kuala Lumpur.

A crane operator had a lucky escape on Friday, after the Rough Terrain crane he was operating overturned at St Clair Shores Marina on Lake Michigan.

A four axle All Terrain crane almost overturned in Poznan, Poland, yesterday, after the wheels on one side punched through the tarmac road surface into an underground void.

An All Terrain crane over turned in Offenbach, near Frankfurt, Germany, last week, crushing a covered trailer and damaging a car.

An incident involving a crane, classified as a traffic accident, indirectly killed a man in the Alandur area of Chennai early yesterday morning.

A man has sustained serious injuries after the boom of a ship crane collapsed on a logging ship at the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand this morning.

A crane overturned on Monday on the site of a new court house in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.