Australia A Crane working on a high rise building in Melbourne has dropped a load of plaster, causing traffic mayhem. Worker Paul Carrel was on the fifth floor when the plaster fell, landing metres from cars waiting at traffic lights. “It was really loud – just bang,” he said of Read More
Ann Arbor, Michigan At about 10 a.m. Monday, construction worker Gary Winisky Jr. was killed after a heavy load of roofing material fell from a crane and struck him on the head at the site of the new C.S. Mott Children’s Hopsital addition. Diane Brown, Department of Public Safety spokesperson, said that Read More
Nigeria A commercial motorcycle operator, Okada, was crushed to death on Sunday by the construction crane of an outdoor advertising firm in Ikeja, Lagos. Employees of the ad firm, ALT Media were installing a gantry for a signage company with a crane when it slipped and fell on an oncoming Read More
Malta Residents of Sacred Heart Avenue, Sliema, got a second fright from a crane accident in as many weeks when part of a tower crane crashed during assembly this evening. No one was injured The incident took place in the same spot where a tower crane crashed onto buildings on Read More
Japan The operator’s cab and arm of a tower crane slid down the mast and crashed on the ground in Tokyo on Wednesday, killing one construction worker and seriously injuring another. The impact of the crash caused the arm to snap in the middle, and its top end brought down Read More
Bokaro, India Two employees of Bokaro Steel Plant were seriously injured after a 1.5 tonne iron coil being carried on a magnetic crane fell on them from a height of about 12 feet around 9.20am today. It’s unclear how the two, Anand Mahto of Sector XII and Bal Krishna Prasad Read More
Minnesota Minneapolis Police say two people are injured after part of an overhead crane fell off and struck them. The incident happened at the Hiawatha Metalcraft Inc. building in the 2600 block of 31st Avenue South. According to Sgt. Bill Palmer, the two people were injured when part of the Read More
Canada A 27 year old male died while working at a construction site today in Calgary. The man was crushed to death after building material fell down onto him on a construction site in downtown Calgary. Police responded to the accident at 2:15PM in the 200 block of 9th Avenue Read More
United Kingdom INVESTIGATIONS are under way today after an accident at Britain’s biggest port in which a stack of containers collapsed. The incident happened in a quayside container park as a rubber-tyred gantry crane tried to sort rows of stored boxes. It is understood the crane driver was trying to Read More
Dallas, Texas A construction worker died Saturday morning in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas when he was struck by several glass panes that fell from a crane, police said. The 24-year-old man, whose identity wasn’t released, was helping remodel a building in the 3800 block of Oak Lawn Avenue Read More
Mexico Three employees of state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos were killed when an electricity pylon collapsed on them inside a refinery complex in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities said Friday. Veracruz civil defense chief Ranulfo Marquez Hernandez told Efe that a fourth worker was injured in the accident at Pemex’s 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.