WorkSafeBC has hit two firms with fines totalling $315,343.71 for their part in the death of a crane operator who was killed while working on the Canada Line.
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Crane Accidents
Tower Crane on Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Chicago nearly collapsed. It was saved by the proper actions of the operator.
A self erecting tower crane tipped over at a building site in Oetwil, near Zurich, Switzerland yesterday there were no injuries.
Madonna was rehearsing her show in Udine, Italy, when the incident occurred, but wasted no time in sending her heartfelt condolences to everyone involved in the crane collapse at France’s Velodrome Stadium.
The crane accident in liver pool last week is now being cleaned-up.
A metro rail construction site is seen after several cranes crashed in New Delhi, July 13. Three cranes crashed Monday while trying to lift a steel girder that had fallen at New Delhi’s metro rail construction site, a new blow to the project a day after the first accident left six people dead.
Here is some scary footage of unsafe crane practices that result in a car being crushed. From the looks of the video it appears no one was injured, thankfully.
A crane boom broke Monday morning while working on a coal silo east of the Dry Fork mine. The crane wasn’t loaded when the boom broke.
Paul Thomas Rysz Jr., 33, a life-long resident of Norwalk, was apparently struck in the head with a steel pin, which then killed him.
Tower Crane Collapses in Seoul Korea.