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
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 safety. What appears to be steel high-beams fell at about Read More
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) For the workers who were inside the Kent County Jail when the 250-foot-high crane collapsed, there were some terrifying moments. 24 Hour News 8 spoke to a worker who was directing the crane from the ground when it came tumbling down. “It was pretty scary. Shaky,” said Read More
Milam, Texas The construction trade is fraught with danger. Nearly all construction workers are injured on the job at some point, and some fatally. A recent accident reminds all of us that Texas construction site dangers abound. A 49-year-old man was working at a construction site off County Road 135 Read More
Milam County A 49-year-old man was hospitalized Wednesday afternoon after a construction accident in Northern Milam County. County officials tell News Channel 25 the man was hit by a pulley-block when it broke loose from a crane at a site off of C.R. 135. Evidence at the scene showed that Read More
Texas On Wednesday, August 17 at about 1:40 p.m. the Milam County Sheriff’s Office received a call in reference to an accident at a construction site off of County Road 135 in the Northern part of Milam County or Burlington area. It was reported that a 49 year old Hispanic Read More
Ireland A health and safety investigation is underway into the cause of an accident at Galway Harbour yesterday in which three men were injured after a cable snapped on a crane while a former Aran islands ferry was being hoisted onto a cargo ship. Onlookers were shocked by the incident Read More
Amstetten, Austria The boom and jib of a loader crane literally snapped off as it was lifting a pallet of old roof tiles from the side of a house in Amstetten, Lower Austria. The broken part of the boom along with its jib/upper boom fell onto a scaffold that ran along Read More
Manila, Phillipines An arson investigator of the Bureau of Fire in Makati City said on Friday overloading caused the construction accident at the Eton Residences where 10 workers died. Senior Fire Officer 1 Jerson Montada said the gondola lift, without equipment, only has a capacity of 4 to 5 people. Read More
Milan A large mobile crane collapsed in central Milan on Saturday thankfully there were no injuries. The crane, believed to be a 500 tonne Krupp KMK 8500, (The design was a modified Gottwald AMK – the company was acquired by Krupp in 1988 this unit is possibly a 1989 Read More
Brunswick, Georgia Bridge Construction Accident Claims Life of Marshall Shirah, 19, When a Crane Cable Snapped More details regarding this accident are currently lost due to Broken Link
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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.