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San Diego, California A boom from a crane truck knocked down overhead lines and caused a small fire and power outage in Rancho Penasquitos today, authorities said. The boom hit the power lines about 10:40 a.m. at 12350 Black Mountain Road, a San Diego Fire Department dispatcher said. No one Read More
Portsmouth, Virginia A 200-ton crane helping to build the West Norfolk Bridge on Highway 164 in Portsmouth partially collapsed Tuesday afternoon, knocking six concrete girders into the water. Officials say the crane was on a one-foot-thick wooden mat, setting the concrete girders into place on the Pinners Point Project, when Read More
Texoma, Oklahoma Motorists using the Highway 25 bridge over Beaver Creek near FM 367 should have been driving over the new bridge there tonight. Unfortunately the delays and detours will last a bit longer. A huge crane picking up the concrete traffic lane barriers toppled onto the semi truck it Read More
United Kingdom Hewden Stuart, the Glasgow plant hire group, faces a damages bill of more than £16m after losing a legal case over a fatal accident. The Court of Appeal has rejected Hewden’s claim over the collapse of a crane at Canary Wharf in 2000, when three workers died. The 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.