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A crawler crane tipped over yesterday in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada no one was injured in the incident which occurred on the site of the new Strandherd Bridge.

The accident happened on September 3, but was only revealed after enquiries from the Sunday Herald following a tip-off from insiders. HMS Astute, the Royal Navy’s latest reactor-driven submarine, was hit by a ramp slipping from a crane during loading.

A crane at a construction site in Haverhill, Massachusetts collapsed this morning just before 8:00 a.m. The top part of the crane collapsed and landed on the cab of the crane on Moulton Way.

Three people were injured yesterday after a steel beam fell onto a boom lift on a science park site on the Yale university campus in New Haven Connecticut. The two people in the platform were wearing harnesses and remained in the basket but suffered injuries from the falling beam

“The tilt-up process was the easy part of the job because we had a 500 tonne capacity Gottwald MK500 as the main crane, rigged with 63 m of main boom and capable of lifting 103 tonnes at the 22 m radius where the stack is scheduled for erection.

Jamie Kirchen was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He was removing the slings from the pallet when the unsecured joists on which he was standing gave way under the weight of the load.was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He suffered multiple fractures including to his pelvis and lost part of his bowel.

That time has come and gone and there is still nothing substantial from OSHA to help people better understand the new ruling,” Thurman said. “We’re not trying to push back the effective date of the ruling. We support the new rules. We just want to give people a chance to understand them.

A number of train passengers were injured yesterday in Hong Kong when the 40 metre boom of a Rough Terrain crane struck the carriages of a light rail transit and brought down overhead power lines after it tipped over.

A fire broke out at a steel facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana after a crane boom came into contact with high tension overhead power lines yesterday.

The Ruthmann Steiger TTS1000 sold by German rental company Gerken to Abilene High Lift of Texas, has now been shipped after a refit/refurbishment at the Ruthmann service centre in Gescher-Hochmoor, Germany