On Monday this week a relatively simple lift went expensively wrong, thanks to a contractor using a smaller crane than the job demanded.
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The boom of a large boom truck crashed onto the roof of a home in Phoenix, Arizona, yesterday after it broke free from the superstructure.
A crane operator has died after a fall at a city centre construction site in Melbourne this morning.
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Boom truck overturns onto church
by Ernie Pierini
February 13, 2013
A boom truck overturned in Mount Vernon, Virginia yesterday, injuring two people, its boom came to rest on a church.
A West Midlands steel company has been ordered to pay more than GBP 146,000 (USD 231,125) in fines and costs after one of its employees was crushed to death by a 15t crane, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced recently.
A large boom truck tipped over in Haddonfield, New Jersey yesterday while removing a tree from the back yard of a house.
A 50 tonne mobile crane has overturned while lifting a garbage disposal truck in Hörgertshausen, Germany, on Monday.
A 90 tonne All Terrain crane overturned into canal in Bradford, UK, on Friday while travelling to a lift.
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Lucky escapes as crane tips
by Ernie Pierini
January 30, 2013
A crawler crane overturned near Omaha, Nebraska yesterday dumping two men into the Missouri River, while trapping the crane operator in his cab.
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Fatal crane and platform collision
by Ernie Pierini
January 22, 2013
A man aged 45 has died after falling from an aerial work platform that was struck by an overhead crane at a facility in Bobstadt, north of Mannheim in Germany, last Tuesday.