Crane Accident

Last Wednesday a four-axle All Terrain crane travelling between the high altitude ski resort of Melchsee-Frutt and Stöckalp in the Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland went over the edge of the twisting alpine road and slid down the side of the mountain

A 500 tonne crane overturned early on Wednesday morning while relocating on a wind farm in Fitjar, to the south of Bergen in western Norway,

A crane truck accident occurred on the light rail transit (LRT) construction site across from the airport in the Avenida Wai Long in Taipa Monday evening. No-one sustained injuries in…

A crane boom came down on to two men at a site in Perry, Ohio – south of Akron – on Saturday, they died instantly.

A crane boom collapse caused a heavy load to drop around 30 metres onto a van during the Bauma breakdown last week.

A Jost 108 hydraulic luffing jib tower crane lost its jib on a London construction site on Monday.

A Rough Terrain crane working at a marina at Monmouth Beach – south of New York City in New Jersey overturned yesterday.

An All Terrain crane crashed through the roof of a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa this morning seriously injuring a man.

A crane overturned at a job site on the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus yesterday, after the outriggers appeared to have shifted on soft ground.

A man has died, while another was injured yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia after the truck mounted lift they were using overturned.