Spotted by a reader in Perth, Western Australia, men riding the load on a new build construction site.
A lattice truck crane overturned yesterday in Maplewood, near Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota trapping the crane operator in his cab.
Almost half of building sites checked by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) failed basic checks particularly when working at height.
A crane operator in Bordeaux, France, had a lucky escape on Tuesday after the ground collapsed under one of his outriggers and his load caught on the building.
A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A tower crane collapsed at the site of a new hotel in Dubai on Saturday killing three and seriously injuring a further five.
A crawler crane operating with long boom and jib flipped over backwards on a construction site in Singapore yesterday. No was injured in the incident.
A helicopter was used to dismantle a Potain MDT 128 flat top tower crane from a 200 metre tall bridge pylon in Norway.
A loader crane operator died after the boom of the crane he was operating came in to contact with overhead power lines, in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.
The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) today made available a national CCO certification program for Lift Directors.