A large gantry collapsed on Monday during testing at the Enerpac production facility in the Netherlands.
05.12.2012
WorkCover NSW Australia hosted a tower crane safety roundtable on Tuesday and issued a communique
04.12.2012
A man died in Kruiningen, Southern Holland last week after the box he was using fell from the forks of a lift truck.
03.12.2012
We finally have details of the crane that overturned in the UK last week, a 120 tonne five axle All Terrain.
03.12.2012 2
Two men using a boom lift to put up Christmas lights in Ontario, Canada ended up in hospital yesterday.
01.12.2012
A Grove GTK telescopic tower crane caught fire, while working on a wind farm in northern Germany.
30.11.2012 1
A fire has caused the luffing jib of a tower crane to collapse onto a nearby building in Sydney, Australia this morning.
27.11.2012 2
OSHA has cited Harrison Hoist with six serious safety violations for the tower crane collapse at the University of Texas.
24.11.2012
Two UK companies have been fined a total of £50,000 following the overturn of a mobile crane in 2009.
24.11.2012 2
A crawler crane working on a residential site overturned at a site in Saskatoon, Canada on Thursday.
23.11.2012
A man fell several metres from a large scissor lift yesterday on a site in Bergen, Norway.
We can now confirm the fatal crawler crane overturn in Ba Ria, Vung Tau, in southern Vietnam on Sunday.
22.11.2012
A five axle All Terrain crane in the UK has rolled down an embankment after the road verge gave way.
22.11.2012 25
A man has died two weeks after he was crushed by a telehandler at Maisemore, near Gloucester in the UK.
21.11.2012
Paul Richards owner of UK based Hi-Reach has launched a new anti-entrapment device.
19.11.2012 2
A 70 year old crane operator was trapped under his crane after it overturned on Saturday.
18.11.2012
A fruit vendor was killed and four children, injured after a crane smashed into a school in Chennai, India.
16.11.2012
WorkSafe Australia has warned owners of Italmec 42N truck mounted lifts to check jib attachment welds.
Earlier this week we reported a van mounted lift and bus incident, we now have the full story.
15.11.2012
Rush hour motorists had a lucky escape Tuesday evening when a crane's trailing boom dolly overturned
A reader has sent details of a recently posted YouTube clip of a van mounted work platform incident.
14.11.2012
A man died yesterday at a site in Austria after he was crushed by the boom of his loader crane.
An injured man was recovered by tower crane yesterday following the overturn of a scissor lift.
13.11.2012 1
Five men blamed for the death of a co-worker crushed by a falling crane boom in the UAE have been jailed.
12.11.2012