Crane Accident

Strong winds in Montreal over the weekend caused a large mobile crane jib and hook come into contact with the 27 storey building it was parked alongside in Montreal, Canada, breaking four large windows.

A five axle Faun AT has overturned on a construction site in Lilleakerveien, Oslo, Norway.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned at a reservoir operated by Louisville Water Company in Kentucky yesterday.

A helicopter has crashed into a luffing jib tower crane in Vauxhall, London, bringing down its jib. The crane is a Comedil owned by the main contractor Brookfield multiplex.

The operator of the crawler crane that collapsed in New York on Wednesday has been blamed for overloading the crane. A statement from the Department of Buildings claims that the crane was lifting a load of 23,900lbs (10.8 tonnes), when the crane’s maximum capacity was around half that amount.

The tower/boom of a large crawler crane has collapsed while lifting a load of lumber in Long Island City, Queens, New York. Seven people are said to be injured, three of them were trapped under the fallen boom and suffered more serious injuries, but not to the extent that their lives are threatened.

Lunda Construction of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, is facing $105,000 in fines from OSHA for one willful, and five serious safety violations,

The boom of a mobile crane buckled this morning while removing the large Christmas tree from the top of the Macys store in Atlanta, Georgia this morning.

A man was crushed yesterday in Hidd, Bahrain after a mobile lattice boom crane dropped a container load of concrete slabs.

A full mini bus struck the overhanging boom of parked Rough Terrain crane in Thailand this morning. Thankfully and amazingly, no one was seriously hurt. A full mini bus struck…