Crane Accidents

A traffic accident on Sydney’s Anzac bridge this morning is all over the press- because a crane is involved.

A 100 tonne crane boom buckled while lifting bridge beams in Northern Norway earlier this week. The crane, owned by Vest Kran, was working from a massive barge, installing a new bridge in Vikan, near Bodø when the incident occurred. No one was injured.

Two UK contractors, Bowmer & Kirkland and Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws following the collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool in 2009. They will be sentenced on Friday.

A crane operator died yesterday after the boom truck he was operating overturned at the dockside in Seward, Alaska. The operator, Feliz Morales, 52, was reportedly lifting nets from a boat, when his crane overturned, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

We have been sent some photos of a car crushed by a telescopic loader crane that overturned onto it in China. Miraculously the occupants escaped with minor injuries.

Jimmy Lomma has been acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges stemming from the fatal collapse of one of his tower cranes in New York in 2008.

A truck mounted crane tipped over while working on the town hall in Trussville, Alabama yesterday. The reason? The photos that we have been sent clearly indicate the lack of any outriggers

A man was seriously injured on Friday when the jib of a luffing jib tower crane came down in Singapore. The crane was working on a site next to the National University Hospital site on South Buona Vista Road, when the failure occured.

The 20 tonne Franna crane, belonging to Glendenning-based crane rental company Borger Cranes, was travelling down the F3 freeway at 7.30am when its boom struck the bridge.

The findings from an investigation into a serious crane and working at height incident at the Kvaerner offshore yard in Verdal, Norway last month has been published.