IPAF’s accident reporting database has logged 17 fatal incidents involving work platforms so far this year.
29.07.2012
A large boom truck overturned in North Carolina yesterday slicing a house in two.
26.07.2012
A man was killed this week after falling from the platform of an aerial lift as he attempted to lift a tree.
An eight axle All Terrain crane overturned last week on a wind farm near Wöhrden North Germany.
24.07.2012 3
An accident at the University of Washington in Seattle on Saturday was not a crane in spite of the reports.
22.07.2012
A Rough Terrain crane went over yesterday at a medical centre site in Boston, Massachusetts.
17.07.2012 4
A utility man was electrocuted in Shakopee, Minnesota, while three colleagues received serious shocks.
17.07.2012
An All Terrain crane overturned near Oxford yesterday, becoming the latest in a series of such occurrences.
16.07.2012 1
A job that went wrong last week in Istanbul took a man’s life and damaging a large crane.
15.07.2012
Reports regarding an overturned crane in North London today actually refer to a crawler mounted piling rig.
13.07.2012
Two men were saved by their harnesses earlier this week after a suspended platform dropped in Manhattan.
12.07.2012
Two men jumped clear of a spider lift as it overturned in Menem, Belgium yesterday,
12.07.2012 1
A recently uploaded video is circulating claiming to show a crawler crane dropping a heavy load onto a bus.
11.07.2012 4
A boom lift came off a low loader yesterday in Swindon, UK, after it reportedly struck a railway bridge.
10.07.2012
A boom truck overturned in Bethesda, Maryland on Saturday while lifting a tree from a back yard.
08.07.2012 1
A tower crane collapsed yesterday in Dallas, Texas while being dismantled, killing two erectors.
07.07.2012
A crane operator was injured in the UK yesterday when a load of timber landed on his cab.
05.07.2012 2
A crawler crane has overturned in Oshkosh, Wisconsin while tandem lifting a concrete bridge beam.
05.07.2012 1
Three men were stranded in a truck mounted lift on Monday evening in Southend, UK, due to an overload.
03.07.2012 3
A crane working on a barge in Pangnirtung, Nanavut, Canada, overturned and is disrupting the harbour.
02.07.2012
A crane operator died when his lattice truck crane overturned last week in Houston, Texas.
01.07.2012 1
Four people were injured in Pudong, China on Friday, when a mobile crane smashed into the back of a bus
24.06.2012
Two men were saved by their harnesses earlier this week after a suspended platform collapsed in Calgary, Canada.
21.06.2012
A man was hospitalised yesterday after falling from the spire of St Nicholas Minster in Great Yarmouth, UK.