Jimmy Lomma, owner of New York Crane/J.F. Lomma Crane has formally waived his right to a trial by jury.
19.02.2012
We have been sent a story from December in which a crane was subjected to a serious shock loading.
A man using an aerial lift was electrocuted last week in the village of Asch, in Gelderland, the Netherlands
18.02.2012
A 20 year-old has died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas.
17.02.2012
A failed crane hoist cable dropped three large steel beams around 140 metres at the WTC site in New York.
16.02.2012
A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today,
A loader crane caught fire in Amsterdam after its boom became entangled in tram power lines.
13.02.2012
A 700 tonne bridge launching crane has collapsed near Vancouver, Canada dropping a 90 tonne section
10.02.2012
The lattice boom and jib of a crawler crane came down onto a jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday.
A tower crane fell around 36 storeys yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after counterweight fell off.
09.02.2012
Three people were injured in Norway yesterday after falling 40 metres from a basket suspended from a crane.
09.02.2012 1
An 85ft self-propelled boom lift tipped over yesterday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
06.02.2012 1
The boom of a lattice crawler crane came down on a bridge job in Novia Scotia last Thursday.
05.02.2012
A Sheriff in Scotland has finally issued a ruling on an fatal road accident involving a crane oil leak.
03.02.2012
A man died yesterday at a site in Malta after he was hit by a tower crane hook, following a wire rope failure.
Information has come in concerning a near miss with a large lattice crawler crane that tipped in Florida.
02.02.2012 2
A woman in her 20s was the subject of a cross city police car chase in Seattle Washington on Tuesday night.
02.02.2012
A truck crane overturned at a hospital site in Oklahoma City yesterday, while lifting a large cooling unit.
01.02.2012
A man was seriously injured yesterday after he fell around 12 to 14 metres from a truck mounted aerial lift in Augusta, near Detroit, Michigan.
31.01.2012
A UK contractor and director have been charged £178,000 following a fatal 2009 crane accident.
30.01.2012
A man fell to his death from a tower crane in Sydney, Australia just after midnight on Thursday.
26.01.2012 1
A mother and four year old daughter suffered injuries after being hit by a scaffold board in Manhattan, New York.
26.01.2012
A telescopic crawler crane overturned yesterday while being loaded onto a transport trailer in Connecticut.
25.01.2012
A report has been issued regarding the cause of the fatal 1,000 tonne crawler crane collapse in China last October.
25.01.2012 1