Crane Accidents

A small city type crane overturned near Plymouth, in south west England yesterday.

The luffing jib of a tower crane collapsed at a site in London yesterday dropping a load onto a footpath.

A 500 tonne All Terrain crane overturned in Haifa, Israel on Thursday, at least one person died in the incident.

A 750 tonne Liebherr LG 1750 working on a wind contract in Cumbria, UK, over turned yesterday, while relocating.

A video has been posted on Youtube this week from Russia, showing a truck crane lifting a dozer into what looks like a dry dock. The dozer proves to be…

German truck mounted lift manufacturer Ruthmann has released a photo of its 70 metre plus T7xx truck mounted lift, scheduled to be unveiled at Bauma. So far its base frame,…

A five axle All Terrain crane overturned last Tuesday while lifting a roof beam at a swimming pool in the Flingern district of Dusseldorf, Germany.

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.

UNIC mini cranes played a starring role on the set of Hollywood blockbuster “Noah” recently as they assisted with filming inside a 5000 year old lava stream cave near Reykjavik in Iceland.