A ‘newly discovered’ letter could stir up confusion in the on-going civil and criminal trials concerning New York’s fatal Upper East Side crane collapse in 2008.

A shocking road accident was caught on camera yesterday in Rotterdam, a crane came out of a side street at speed, hitting a car and taking it around a hundred metres before coming to a stop.

The UK’s Tower Crane Register, introduced in 2010, will be abandoned, as recommended in an independent review of health and safety legislation published in November 2011.

A 110 tonne All Terrain crane overturned at London’s Tate Modern TM2 construction project, fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.

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A number of buildings were evacuated in downtown Wilmington North Carolina, yesterday after the boom of a nearby mobile crane appeared to buckle. Police were concerned that it might bend further or break and fall on the occupied buildings that were within range– thus the evacuation.

A large boom truck/crane tipped on Friday while lifting a tree from the back garden of a house in Wyckoff, New Jersey. The crane, a large Altec, was set up with all of its outriggers fully extended and was working over the back, lifting limbs from a tree that had been damaged by storms last month.

The first and largest of three new electronic signs in Abbotsford is now aloft. The 14×48-foot digital display, located on Salton Road next to Highway 1, will be used to promote the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre (AESC), community events and private businesses.

The Cotter Dam project is losing time and money after work safety authorities shut down the site’s main tower crane.

NFT, the regional Potain dealer for Saudi Arabia, has placed 90 tower cranes on the US$10 billion King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh.

This giant 1,600 km square development will reportedly include 40 skyscrapers and aims to redefine Saudi Arabia’s capital as a global center for finance.