News has reached us of two fatal incidents on Monday - One in Italy and another in Kuwait, caused by loads falling from cranes
13.12.2023
We have received the tragic news that all five occupants of the hoist that crashed to the ground in Stockholm on Monday have now died
12.12.2023
A tower crane overturned yesterday on a construction site in Uerikon/Stäfa to the south east of Zurich
A construction hoist with five on board has collapsed in Sundbyberg, Stockholm in Sweden, seriously injuring the occupants UPDATED
11.12.2023
A 360 degree telehandler overturned onto the tracks of the Rhine Valley Railway
07.12.2023
A man using a truck mounted platform to install Christmas lights in the UK is fighting for his life, after his platform was hit by a van
05.12.2023
A 200 tonne All Terrain crane overturned on a construction site in Blanchardstown, Dublin this morning
01.12.2023 5
The jib of a luffing tower crane has come down on a building under construction in Leith area of Edinburgh, Scotland earlier today
28.11.2023 2
A man was seriously injured in a plant in Grimmen, Northern Germany on Friday when his scissor lift was struck by an overhead crane
28.11.2023
A five axle crane nearly ended up in the dock on Thursday when it dropped a classic Amsterdam sightseeing boat - mostly captured on video
20.11.2023 3
Earlier this week the operator of a tower crane with a height in excess of 50m, suffered a serious health episode and had to be rescued
17.11.2023
An area of the city of Leeds in the UK was closed off yesterday following concerns that a tower crane had become unstable
15.11.2023
A tower crane operator died when his crane overturned in Wieliczka, on the south side of Kraków, Poland on Monday
09.11.2023
A mobile tower crane almost ended up in a Dutch canal last week - watch the recovery video
07.11.2023 2
Two men were injured in Boston, Massachusetts yesterday when a dropped load contacted the scissor lift they were working from, causing it to overturn
28.10.2023
We have just learnt of a fatal crane incident that occurred on Monday near Farmington in Utah – north of Salt Lake City
26.10.2023
An incident in Sao Paolo, Brazil on Tuesday left nine men dangling from their lanyards at a height of 140m after a platform collapsed
21.10.2023
Last month an aluminium truck crane overturned onto a building in Herdecke near Dortmund in Germany, the recovery is instructive.
17.10.2023 2
A boom lift came off the back of a delivery truck in Arnhem, the Netherlands yesterday.
17.10.2023
A video clip sent in by a number of readers shows quite dramatically how wearing a harness and lanyard in a boom lift can save your life
14.10.2023 1
A crane operator had a lucky escape this week when the crawler crane he was working with overturned on a site in Waterford, Ireland
12.10.2023
The UK HSE is taking over the investigation into the explosion at the Teesworks in 2019 which killed two men in a truck mounted platform
10.10.2023
A crawler crane overturning incident Chile this May, in which a lattice crawler crane overturned by lifting a boom lift
09.10.2023
The UK Health and Safety Executive – HSE – has said that it will prosecute Falcon Tower Cranes for the fatal crane overturn in 2017 STATEMENT ADDED
02.10.2023 4
