Safety

A large bridge beam buckled and fell onto a highway as it was being installed last week at the Cross Iron Mills Mall on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway near Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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 manufacturing defect has been identified in spigots on K600 and K800 mast sections used in Manitowoc Cranes, Potain MD, MDT and MR Tower Cranes. There have been two known mast section failures from this cause.

A Brockville man is dead after the boom of a crane he was helping to operate touched a live electrical wire Wednesday

4 Things to Consider When Connecting Rigging Blocks and Lines for a Suspended Work Platform (adjacent to the face of a building or structure)

At approximately 5:00 o’clock Thursday afternoon, a crane owned and operated by Kenneth Smith of Sea Cow’s Bay overturned while working on the steel frame section of the roof of the new St. George’s Primary School in Road Town causing extensive damage to the roof of the present school.

What British Petroleum calls the best short-term solution to stopping the gush of oil, still leaking out of control into the Gulf of Mexico, was expected to leave Port Fourchon late this afternoon.

A worker suffered serious head injuries after being struck by steel beams which fell from a tower crane

A crane and 1,000-tonnes of scaffolding collapsed at a construction site south of Halle on Wednesday morning, temporarily trapping several workers and injuring 11 people, police said.

A crane toppled onto power lines and a home on Monday. 1,400 homes were left without electricity on Monday evening.