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A crane which collapsed killing two people was loaded with four extra tonnes of weight because the owners used the wrong manual, an inquest heard yesterday.

The inquest into the deaths of two men in the 2006 tower crane collapse in Battersea, London, UK will open today.

Millionaire construction magnate James Lomma tried to wiggle through a semantic loophole today in his manslaughter trial for the fatal 2008 crane collapse on 91st Street — by calling an admittedly-faulty metal part a “replacement,” not a “repair.”

A former Department of Buildings big testified Monday that she considered filing criminal charges against crane owner James Lomma months before his rig collapsed, killing two Manhattan hardhats.

The Australian third party inspection programme CraneSafe celebrated its 10th anniversary in January. The programme started in the state of Victoria, as CraneSafe was born out of the Green Sticker that was originally issued by WorkSafe Victoria.

A crane operator died yesterday in Whitby Ontario, Canada, after his crane overturned on top of him. According to local news reports the man worked with Galcon Marine, who it is assumed, owned the crane. The company has a number of lattice crawler cranes, mostly Koehring and Link Belt units fitted with draglines or clamshells with capacitis of up to 50 tons.

Welsh hirer Bryn Thomas Crane is calling on an MP to stop using its name in her campaign against phoenix firms which fold to avoid paying health and safety fines.

A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres. The man was reportedly climbing the tower and had almost reached the cab of the 35 metre high crane, when he slipped and fell around five metres inside the tower.

A 20 year-old man died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas yesterday. The incident occurred at the Jackson Pipe and Steel Company in Leary, near Texarkana on the border with Arkansas.

A massive load of steel beams plummeted 40 stories from a crane perched atop a World Trade Center tower that is under construction Thursday morning — slamming into a flatbed truck and sending workers scrambling for cover.