Over the past two weeks or so we have been trying to dicover the fate of ALE’s 1,200 tonne Gottwald AK912.
16.03.2011
Rotorua, New Zealand-based crane company Taslo Steel has been fined $22,000, following an accident last year.
The university of Notre Dame has been fined $77,500 for the fatal scissor lift accident last year.
15.03.2011
A man has died after a crane dropped a concrete panel on him in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada yesterday.
10.03.2011
There have been two serious loader crane accidents this week in Austria with a total of three seriously injured
09.03.2011
One man died and another is seriously injured after a scissor lit went over at a steel mill in Indiana.
08.03.2011
A man is critically ill in hospital after a bus struck the platform of the boom lift he was working from in central London.
04.03.2011
A man using a 60ft boom lift in San Francisco had a lucky escape yesterday after a wheel dropped into a void.
02.03.2011
A Chinese crane delivery ship has been ‘arrested’ by the U.S. Marshals Service after it damaged a quayside crane in Portsmouth Virginia.
24.02.2011
WorkSafeBC halved one fine and cancelled another for a fatal crane accident in Vancouver in 2008.
A military RT crane overturned after it slipped off of its trailer in a trading estate in Guam today.
22.02.2011
A man had a lucky escape last week when the narrow track spider lift he was moving tipped over onto him.
The top of a tower crane broke free at a stadium in Stuttgart on Saturday seriously injuring the operator.
21.02.2011
A man fell around 50 metre to his death in Plymouth, Devon, after breaking into the site on Thursday night.
19.02.2011
We have received reports of at least five chassis failures on Land Rovers fitted with platforms.
18.02.2011
A man was electrocuted yesterday in northern Queensland, when the crane he was using touched overhead power lines.
16.02.2011
A judge has upheld criminal manslaughter charges against New York crane owner James Lomma and mechanic Tibor Varganyi.
A truck carrying a boom lift clipped A railway bridge this morning near Banbury, UK, pulling part of it down.
15.02.2011
A tower crane collapsed on Saturday in Buenos Aires, Argentina after its foundation failed.
14.02.2011
We have received photos of an accident that occurred, we believe, in November somewhere in France.
11.02.2011
A crane tipped over in Florida yesterday and crashed into nearby buildings while lifting a tree.
08.02.2011
A strong risk assessment and planning, combined with a sharp operator saved a big crawler from tipping.
04.02.2011 2
A man was seriously injured this morning while unloading a large telescopic boom lift near Burnley, UK.
02.02.2011 1
Singapore’s High Court has held an engineer liable for a tower crane collapse that killed three people.
01.02.2011