Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania EDGEWORTH — A Raccoon Township man died after being shocked by a power line Wednesday while trimming a tree in Edgeworth. Chester Sipes, 47, was working in a D.L.S. Tree Service bucket truck about 1:55 p.m. in the front yard of 411 Chestnut Road, across the street from Read More
Seward, Alaska A boom truck fell over onto its side at the T-Dock in front of Icicle Seafoods in the small boat harbor Tuesday May 8, killing the boom truck operator, Felix Morales, 52, of California. The tip of the boom arm punctured the deck of the MV Kaylor Read More
Spain A self-propelled boom lift overturned on Monday at a construction site in Avilés, northern Spain killing the operator, 27 year old construction worker Gonzalo Fuente López. López was painting metal elements on the facade of a new building with a fully extended Haulotte HA260PX 4×4 articulated boom, we understand Read More
Jackson, Missouri Matthew J. Pooker, Age 29. The Jackson Police Department and Jackson Fire and Rescue responded to a deadly accident at 7:30 a.m. Monday at the Penzel Construction Company. The police department says workers at the company were making repairs to a crane when on of them became trapped Read More
Staten Island, New York Original Story Michael Simermeyer spent the years after his high school graduation working as a cell phone-tower installer for Lucent Technologies — but the family trade beckoned. He became a member of Local 731 of the United Steel Workers of America in November, taking his place Read More
Manhattan, New York April 5, 2012 Update: Defects Found in Hoisting System April 7, 2012 Update: Inspector may be partially to blame A crane collapse at West 34th Street and 11th Avenue in Manhattan on Tuesday night left one person dead and four others injured. One injured worker died, Michael Read More
Goerge Town One person died while three others were injured when a seven-storey-high crane tower at a construction site toppled and fell on a pre-war house. Bachelor Liang Yit Kwang, 65, who was believed to be sleeping on the second floor of the house, died after he was buried in Read More
Osaka, Japan A Rough Terrain crane fell into a river from a temporary bridge in Osaka, Japan, killing the operator yesterday. The 25 tonne crane ended up in the Yodogawa River in Fukushima Ward, Osaka, on Wednesday morning. Police said that the crane had slipped over the edge of the Read More
New Hampshire, United Kingdom A man died in New Hampshire yesterday after the scissor lift he was working from was struck by the hook of a crane. The incident occurred at the site of the Hanover Inn, Hanover New Hampshire. Dana Lowe,53, was working around five metres up, securing steelwork, Read More
Whitby, Canada Inside his Barrie home, David Gallagher lined his office wall-to-wall with images of tugs and barges and swiveling cranes, incessant reminders of a life devoted — in work and play — to marine construction. So when he died in a sudden construction accident last week, Gallagher, who was Read More
Leary, Texas 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 man, Stephen Rodney Cutchall, was hit by a Read More
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The recent boom collapse in Manhattan, New York resulted in the death of Michael Simermeyer. Ironically, the same building inspector, Patrick McGarrigle, on site who failed to check a cable involved in the accident was also connected with an fatal crane accident in 2008.