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Crawler Overturns on Soft Ground
Plaquemine, Louisiana A 600 ton crawler crane overturned last month at the Dow Chemical plant in Plaquemine, Louisiana. Information on this incident have only recently been received, but have now been confirmed, it seem the incident occurred on Thursday September 8th while a relatively new Liebherr LR1600 was being moved Read More
Fatal Tower Crane Incident
Béjaïa, Algeria A tower crane collapsed yesterday in the town of Béjaïa on the north coast of Algeria killing one man and seriously injuring the operator. Two other men received more minor injuries. The local police report says that the crane was 32 meters high and equipped with a 55 Read More
Fire Causes Crane Boom to Drop
Boyton Beach, Florida A crawler crane caught fire yesterday in Florida and as a result dropped its lattice boom as the boom hoist and cables suffered in the blaze. The incident occurred in Boyton Beach to the north of Boca Raton, no one was injured and the boom came down Read More
Swinging Hook Makes News
New York, NY A heavy gust of wind sent the headache ball of a crane into the window of Three World Trade Center in New York yesterday creating a shower of news reports featuring the crane. The incident occurred while one of the luffing jib tower crane, working on Read More
Tower Crane Emergency
Hamburg, Germany The emergency services were called to a tower crane that had started to list in Hamburg, Germany yesterday. The crane operator was lifting a couple of sheets of re-bar on the surprisingly untidy site in the Lokstedt area of the city, when the crane tower shifted. He immediately Read More
Runaway Crane
Heiligenhaus, Germany A five axle All Terrain crane ran away on Tuesday in a street in Heiligenhaus, German – roughly halfway between Dusseldorf and Wuppertal. The crane, a Grove owned by Schares, had arrived in the town early on Tuesday morning to carry out a lift at a local transformer Read More
Crane Comes Down in New York
New York, New York A large brand new crawler crane dropped its boom across a seven lane bridge yesterday on the new Tappan Zee bridge project in New York. The crane, was working from the deck of the new Tappan Zee Bridge across the Hudson River to the North of Read More
Fatal Crane Fall
Fernandina, Florida An electrician working on a rail mounted container crane at the Port of Fernandina in Florida died yesterday after the crane cab he was working in broke away and fell around 30 metres to the ground. Timothy Dubberly, 58, was an employee of port manager Kinder-Morgan, the details Read More
AT Loses Tire
Pinkafeld, Austria The driver of an All Terrain crane managed to keep his vehicle on the road after he lost a front tire between near Pinkafeld (between Graz and Vienna), Austria last Wednesday. The crane, a three axle Grove GMK belonging to rental company Prangl, suffered some minor damage to Read More
Crane Overturn Delays Refinery Sale
Torrence, California A 270 ton lattice truck crane overturned yesterday at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Torrance, near Los Angeles, California. The crane was reported to be lifting a reactor top for a 100,000 barrel a day fluidic catalytic cracking unit, although a photo we have been sent suggests that Read More
Fatal Crane Overturn in Alabama
Parrish, Alabama A crawler crane overturned on a highway project near the town of Parrish, northwest of Birmingham, Alabama yesterday killing the operator. The crane was working from a terrace on a sloping job site and looks as though it was preparing to tandem lift some concrete bridge beams, but Read More
Top Story
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.