One man is dead and another seriously injured after a truck mounted boom lift ‘collapsed’ in Glasgow Scotland. UPDATED
20.06.2012 6
A crane has collapsed in the Russian city of Troitsk in the Ural Mountains close to the border with Kazakhstan.
18.06.2012
The operator of a runaway crane in W. Australia, had a lucky escape yesterday.
An inquest into a loader crane fatality in Canberra has been suspended pending a possible prosecution.
A utility worker fell from an aerial lift he was using on a farm in Pebmarsh, Essex, UK last Thursday.
17.06.2012
A window cleaner fell 17 floors to his death in Bahrain after a cable failed on his suspended platform.
16.06.2012
The reporting of accidents and sharing of lessons learnt, has been a hot topic at several association meetings this year, many believe it should be a condition of membership
15.06.2012
An All Terrain crane has overturned at a hospital in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia, while placing steel.
14.06.2012
A small truck crane flipped over at a job site in New Haven Connecticut yesterday while driving piles.
A crane touched an overhead power line in Newbury, New Hampshire yesterday killing a man below.
A boom lift overturned yesterday in Reading, Pennsylvania- two men survived, thanks to their harnesses.
13.06.2012
Strong winds in Perth W. Australia took the luffing jib of a tower crane onto the roof of a hospital
11.06.2012
A man was thrown to his death after the truck mounted work platform he was working from struck a bridge.
A Rough Terrain crane overturned on a road in Mississippi on Friday, the operator was injured.
10.06.2012
Possibly the worst case of forgetting to stow a boom before taking to the road that we have ever seen.
A 550 tonne lattice truck crane tipped precariously on a road job in Mexico City on Saturday
A telehandler has overturned in Perth Australia, while pick & carrying a suspended load this morning.
07.06.2012
A boom truck overturned yesterday while installing a large sign in Charleston, West Virginia.
06.06.2012
A crane caught fire yesterday when its boom struck an overhead power line in the town of Florida, New York.
05.06.2012
A mobile self-erecting tower crane overturned in the Netherlands on Friday after its outriggers sank in sand.
03.06.2012 1
A pedestrian was injured yesterday after she was knocked to the ground by falling scaffold in Manhattan, NY.
01.06.2012
A man died on Wednesday on a Metro site in Bangalore India, after a crane boom came down on him.
31.05.2012
An All Terrain crane overturned in Bloomington, Minnesota yesterday while lifting AC units on to a store.
30.05.2012
A truck mounted platform rammed a bridge in Kiama, NSW, Australia, this morning, ripping it from its chassis.