The MD of a failed construction company has been fined £80,000 plus £18,495 costs for a 2007 crane accident.
20.12.2011
A court in Japan has given the crane operator who crashed into a group of schoolchildren a seven year sentence.
A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week.
18.12.2011 2
A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured.
16.12.2011
A harness and lanyard saved a man’s life yesterday after he fell from a suspended platform in New York.
13.12.2011
A ‘newly discovered’ letter could confuse trials concerning New York’s fatal Upper East Side crane collapse in 2008.
12.12.2011
A 250 ton All Terrain tipped in Sugar Creek Ohio, to the north of Columbus, while installing its counterweight.
09.12.2011
We have started monitoring serious injuries and falls from ladders and have been astonished at how many there are.
A shocking road accident was caught on camera yesterday in Rotterdam, involving a crane and a car.
09.12.2011 1
A lattice crane boom collapsed yesterday on in Garrett Indiana after its load suddenly freed after it hung up.
A man died in San Diego yesterday after the boom lift he was unloading slipped off the side of the lowboy trailer.
07.12.2011
A 110 tonne All Terrain crane has overturned at London’s Tate Modern TM2 construction site, there are no injuries.
02.12.2011 13
A passing female distraction caused the man in a short video clip to lose concentration the result is predictable.
02.12.2011
New Zealand’s department of labour has charged 3 with the death of a man, killed in a telehandler overturn.
01.12.2011
Two men died earlier today after the boom lift they were working in overturned in Atlanta, Georgia.
01.12.2011 2
A crane operator died last night at the Thyssen Krupp stainless steel plant in Calvert, Alabama.
30.11.2011
A large boom truck overturned on Friday while lifting a tree from the back garden of a house in Wyckoff, New Jersey.
A number of buildings were evacuated in North Carolina, yesterday after the boom of a mobile crane buckled.
29.11.2011 4
Two men were injured yesterday after their scissor lift suffered a structural failure in Mansfield, Connecticut.
28.11.2011
Six men died yesterday in Lahore, Pakistan, when a crane contacted an overhead power line.
25.11.2011
A man died in Lara, Victoria, Australia. yesterday after falling around 13 to 15 metres from an aerial lift.
24.11.2011
A crane operator was rescued yesterday after his crane toppled over the side of a bridge.
21.11.2011 1
Two people are dead and three missing, after a façade scaffold collapsed at a construction site in east China's Anhui province.
20.11.2011
The Zakharii LK-600 floating crane capsized yesterday while working on the Podilskyi-Voskresenskyi bridge.
18.11.2011