Crane Safety

A safety alert on the influence of wind forces during crane operations has been issued jointly by FEM and ESTA.

The Daily Mail has reported that a female crane operator survived a 100m fall from the top of a 33-storey building and survived. Two co-workers died in the collapse.

The crane was erected in 1942, replacing an older crane that had been hit by bombers during an air raid on the town of Barrow and its docks by the Luftwaffe 1941..Two watchmen, posted on top of the crane died when it was hit.

One of our English readers spotted one of the craziest operators we have seen since starting our Death Wish series – in France.

A man was killed earlier today and eight others injured when a double decker bus ran into the boom of a loader crane working in the inside lane of the three lane Chai Chee Street.

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

A four axle truck crane dropped its boom across two houses after the ground gave way under one of its rear outriggers.

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.

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.