We have been trying to ascertain the facts of a large crawler crane accident in the UK for a week now and still know little more than the basic facts. We received several reports that a 300 tonne Liebherr LR1300, owned by Weldex, had tipped over on a wind farm project in South Wales
The accident happened near Northeast 10th Street and Hiwassee Road in Choctaw. Workers said a construction crew was repairing a bridge when part of a crane fell on the man’s head. Sky5 flew over the scene, and emergency personnel were taking a man to an ambulance by stretcher
A man was injured in Gedling, Nottingham yesterday after a crane lifting a hot tub off the back of a delivery truck and into position tipped. The 20 year old man – who was helping deliver the hot tub – was trapped against the wall of a bungalow while the crane boom landed on the bungalow roof and the hot tub landed in the garden.
The 12 tonne Hydra crane built by ACE, reportedly lifting a two tonne concrete pile, when the ground under its front wheels subsided causing it to tip over sideways with the three section boom dropping across the busy road. Officials from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation immediately blamed the incident on operator negligence
5 workers were atop a 30 meter tall crane when it collapsed killing 2 and injuring one. The two that survived without injury climbed down the mast.
When master crane rigger William Rapetti goes on trial for manslaughter next week in the fatal 2008 collapse at East 51st Street, the prime piece of evidence against him will be this photograph
There were no injuries reported Saturday after the crane hit a ledge near the top of the mixed-use building on Maiden Lane, three blocks from Wall Street, the Fire Department of New York said. Part of the lower Manhattan building’s facade broke off and fell into the street, police Lt. John Grimpel s
According to sources a crane accident in Krasnoyarsk, Russia collapsed leaving the operator dead and 5 people injured. On March 26th, 2010, the crane fell over a busy six lane…
Investigators said Mr. Cosban’s lapse — he did not lower the boom as far as it could go — contributed to the accident but might not have been the sole cause. They said that they were looking into whether mechanical failure was a factor and that they might issue further citations.
In that accident, a 24-year-old, cheaply refurbished, Lomma-owned crane snapped in two, sending the crane’s boom, engine and cab plummeting 20 stories with its operator trapped inside.