Whitby, Canada A crane operator died yesterday in Whitby, Canada, after the boom of his crane came down on him. According to local news reports the man, David Gallagher, 30, worked with Galcon Marine, the owner the crane. The family company has a number of lattice crawler cranes, mostly Koehring 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
England An accident in which a 13Kg counterweight fell from a height of 4 metres on to a man’s foot and fractured it revealed a laxity in maintenance of the cranes being used at Drax Power Station in North Yorkshire. The incident last March at Drax Power Ltd also implicated Read More
Japan Two men were injured on Saturday at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, while assembling a crawler crane. The men were installing the crane’s back mast using another crawler crane, The support crane was lifting the back mast vertically in order to place it into its pivot points Read More
Vietnam A crane being erected at a port in northern Vietnam collapsed on Tuesday, killing seven workers, a state-run newspaper reported. Two workers died instantly during the collapse at Cai Lan port in Quang Ninh province and six were badly injured, the Defence Ministry-run Quan Doi Nhan Dan (People’s Army) Read More
Jacksonville, Florida A 58-year-old St. Augustine man died in a construction accident while working at the Jacksonville Port Authority on Saturday, January 23 when a portable industrial crane collapsed around noon, killing the man. The crane had been brought in so workers could dismantle an old container crane on the Read More
Jinan, China Two people were killed and three injured when a truck crane collapsed at the intersection of two roads in east China’s Shandong Province Wednesday afternoon. The accident happened at around 1:52 pm when workers were assembling the crane at the intersection of Jinsi and Yimeng roads in Linyi Read More
Connecticut A telescopic crawler crane has tipped over this morning in Connecticut while installing its counterweights. The crane a brand new Mantis/Tadano -either a 77 or 100 ton capacity unit, was setting up by the side of the road in Niantic, East Lyme and appears to have been lifting one Read More
Singapore The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has ordered Kay Lim Construction to stop work at the site where a crane accident killed one worker and injured three others on Wednesday evening. The ministry’s Occupational Safety and Health Division responded immediately to the crane incident at the construction worksite in Punggol Read More
Singapore A tower crane collapsed today killing one 32 year old worker and injuring three others. The crane was being dismantled at the time. The story describes the collapse of the boom. The included picture shows a turntable that separated from the mast. You can see the pin holes with Read More
Shady Grove, Pennsylvania Manitowoc Crane Group is investigating the cause of a Jan. 4 accident that led to the death of a Chambersburg, Pa., man, a company official said Tuesday. Jeffrey Cowan, 41, died Sunday from injuries sustained in a fall at Manitowoc Crane Group in Shady Grove. The company 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.