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Fatal Crane Accident in Texas

02/18/12

A 20 year-old man died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas yesterday. The incident occurred at the Jackson Pipe and Steel Company in Leary, near Texarkana on the border with Arkansas. The Read More

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02/18/12

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Huge crane traps driver

02/17/12

Seattle, Washington  Huge crane traps driver; woman pinned in truck for nearly 3 hours. Update: 02/27/01: Condition of woman injured in crane accident improves Update: 05/05/02: Joann Beffert describes her miraculous escape. Update: 3/26/02: Woman sues railroad. It was like helplessly Read More

Ground Zero World Trade Center Crane Accident

02/16/12
Hoist Snaps at World Trade Center 2012

New York City The cord of a crane hoisting a pile of huge steel beams hundreds of feet in the air snapped during construction at the Ground Zero World Trade Center site Thursday, causing hundreds of workers to scramble to Read More

Crane Operator Saved From Water

02/16/12
Crane Submerged in Seattle WA 2012 Accident

Seattle, Washington A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today, the operator was pulled from the water with non life-threatening injuries. The incident occurred at Vigor Industrial, located on Harbor Island at the former site Read More

CraneTalk.com Live!

02/13/12

CraneTalk.com THE Discussion Forum for Everything Crane Proud to announce the release, or rather re-release, of the Crane Talk crane discussion forum. <– To visit click that button The site is up and running, though has a lot of ground Read More

Loader Crane Disrupts Amsterdam Traffic

02/13/12
Loader Crane Set Ablaze by Power Lines Amsterdam 2012

Amsterdam A loader crane caught fire on Friday in Amsterdam after its boom became entangled in the overhead tram power lines. The incident occurred on the Muiderstraat on Friday morning when the truck with a loader crane and grab was Read More

Crane Accident Snarls Traffic in Manila

02/12/12

Manila Traffic was snarled along a portion of Taft Avenue in Manila before noon Sunday following a freak accident involving a crane boom that fell off a 40-foot flatbed trailer. No one was initially reported injured in the accident at Read More

Power Line Death Wish

02/11/12
Crane Operator Death Wish Czech Republic 2012

Czech Republic Sent in by a reader in the Czech Republic [by source], an example of how truck mounted lifts are used in a totally inappropriate manner. The practice involves the holding up or lifting of high tension overhead power Read More

700-Tonne Gantry Crane Collapses

02/10/12
Gantry Crane Support Beam Collapses 2012

A massive 700-tonne horizontal gantry crane collapsed off of one of its support legs this morning on the new $3.3 billion Port Mann Bridge construction project, dropping a 90-tonne section of the bridge deck into the Fraser River below. At Read More

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