Crane Accident

5 workers were atop a 30 meter tall crane when it collapsed killing 2 and injuring one. The two that survived without injury climbed down the mast.

A tower crane building a 20 story building collapsed. Three workers were killed, but their locations, be they on the crane or building weren’t indicated. One of those that died was the crane operator.

When master crane rigger William Rapetti goes on trial for manslaughter next week in the fatal 2008 collapse at East 51st Street, the prime piece of evidence against him will be this photograph

The jib of a mobile self erecting tower crane buckled and fell today on the site of the new Bunbury Cathedral in Western Australia.

A large mast climbing work platform collapsed yesterday on the State University of New York campus in Binghamton, New York. The platform comprised two twin mast rigs linked together to create a very long four mast unit with a platform in the region of 40 metres long with long cantilevers at each end.

One worker died and another was injured Thursday in a work accident in Istanbul’s Tuzla shipyards, an area infamous for workplace fatalities, Anatolia news agency reported.

It is not really clear what caused the crane, a four axle Tadano truck crane owned by steel frame manufacturer Southern Cross Rigging and Constructions, to tip.

A large boom truck tipped over on Sherbourne street in Toronto yesterday, bringing down power lines falling across a street, no injuries were reported.

There were no injuries reported Saturday after the crane hit a ledge near the top of the mixed-use building on Maiden Lane, three blocks from Wall Street, the Fire Department of New York said. Part of the lower Manhattan building’s facade broke off and fell into the street, police Lt. John Grimpel s

According to sources a crane accident in Krasnoyarsk, Russia collapsed leaving the operator dead and 5 people injured. On March 26th, 2010, the crane fell over a busy six lane…