Crane Accidents

A crawler crane operator died at JaxPort in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday in an accident that occurred while dismantling a large port crane that had been retired and sold. The old container/gantry crane had been purchased by a company that employed a contractor to dismantle and remove it from the port.

The fatal crane accident near Hobart, Tasmania earlier today was a road accident involving an articulated pick and carry crane.

The driver of the truck crane involved that ran through a set of traffic lights in Tampa on September 16th, crashing into a bus and a sheriff’s car, seriously injuring a deputy, has been cited for ‘running the light’ and having faulty service brakes.

A 55 ton Rough Terrain crane tipped over at the Halifax shipyard in Nova Scotia, Canada earlier today. The 61 year-old operator suffered only minor bruising from the accident. He was though taken to Hospital as a precaution.

A reader in has Northern Ireland reported a near miss with a self-erecting tower crane earlier this week. The crane’s jib buckled and fell but was retained by its hoist cables. We do not know much about what happened, but we do know that it was on a site in Downpatrick.

Six people died and one was injured on Saturday after a tower crane came down in Dandong City, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, close to the North Korean border. Six men were apparently working on the 50 metre crane when it went over on a construction site in the Zhenxing District. Four died at the scene, while the other two died later in hospital according to a statement from the local authorities.

A Romanian Self Erecting Tower Crane tips and strikes three cars. Up to now we have no reports as to fatalities or injuries from the crane tipping, we will continue to monitor this situation and update as information comes in.

An All Terrain crane owned and operated by the Budapest Fire department turned over on Wednesday while lifting artwork into Buda castle. The crane a four axle Tadano Faun ATF 60-4, working over the rear, had just lifted a crate of Munkácsy paintings in to the castle by way of its large balcony.

A 280 tonne lattice boom truck crane left the road on Friday and plunged into a ditch, after completing a lift in Astoria,the crane, an older Demag on a Faun carrier is owned by Portland based Campbell Crane & Rigging.

A mobile crane tipped over at a ConocoPhillips site in Hartford, Illinois on Thursday injuring the operator. The crane a Grove YardBoss YB7725 was said to be lifting pipes onto a trailer when it tipped.