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 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.

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.

A crane operator was rescued yesterday after his crane toppled over the side of a bridge.

The crane was working on a bridge job near Winfield Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, lifting steel, when we understand it went over the edge falling around 28 metres, according to local reports.

One of the largest floating cranes in Eastern Europe, the 680 tonne, 93 metre boom Zakharii LK-600 capsized yesterday while working on the Podilskyi-Voskresenskyi bridge over the Dnieper River in Kiev.

A national crane inspection programme has been launched in the USA to provide separate certifications for mobile, tower and overhead cranes. The CCO national inspector certification programme was jointly set up by the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) and the Crane Certification Association of America (CCAA).