The crane was on bare rental from Sellah & Pecci to Dick Corporation. The accident happened in a local Power Plant while setting a 40 ton manlift. The machine got light and the boom collapsed. It is reported there were no deaths and only minor injuries. This crane was totaled. Read More
The story is: they were using a vibratory hammer and it shook the crane right off the cribbing. Fortunately, no one was injured.
A Tower Crane, on a parking garage construction site, was unloading a 40′ bundle of rebar from a truck at the George Bush International Airport in Houston. The truck was in one lane of a three lane street. One end of the bundle was stuck in the headboard of the Read More
Sydney, Australia Crane crashed to the ground yesterday when the footpath it was placed on gave way. Miraculously no one was hurt in the accident a police spokeswoman said.
Japan An accident involving a crane-carrying truck at the monorail construction site in Kyouhara, Naha City, brought extensive power failure.
Intensive efforts at Odense Steel Shipyard Odense Steel Shipyard is facing a production stop for a period of time after the Yard’s gantry crane was totally destructed in the hurricane, Friday, 3 December. Over the weekend the Yard’s management and a considerable number of employees started preparations for removal of Read More
West Liberty, West Virginia A work crew consisting of three persons were preparing a 75-ton mobile crane for transport from the mine property. Prior to the crane operator securing the top of the 6-ton counterweight by removing the slack in the attached wire rope, the victim, who was positioned between Read More
Doctors were today battling to save the leg of a workman who was trapped under a crane at a building construction site.
Mississippi According to Clyde Payne, OSHA’s Jackson area director, an Advance Masonry employee, Claude Spann, Jr., was working on a scaffold preparing to do stone work on the front of the David C. Swalm Chemical Engineering building when the accident occurred. A crane boom fell, striking the scaffold and fatally Read More
Sante Fe, New Mexico A 35 Ton Hydraulic Truck Mount was booming up in the companies own crane yard and got into the power lines. POWER LINES IN A CRANE YARD, WHAT’S UP WITH THAT! There were no reported injuries, however, the crane appears to be a total loss.
Carrollton, Texas Crane boom fell across student’s car as the student was leaving parking lot Aa 65 ton Link-Belt lattice boom truck crane had its boom fall at a local high school here, that was having a new addition added on to it. A TMS 865 Grove was dispatched to 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.