A man was seriously injured last week in Choctaw, Oklahoma after a boom section landed on him. The accident happened on a bridge repair project when a lattice crane boom section fell on him. The section was being lifted by a 360 degree tracked excavator when it slipped, struck the man on the head and then pinned him to the ground.
The scaffold was being erected by a scaffold company called Red Lion, next to the Canon Street railway station near St Pauls in the City of London. Our corresponded says: “One man was wearing a harness but was not using it the other on the scaffold had no harness or hard hat.
A mobile crane tipped over on Wednesday at the Yeongam Formula One circuit in South Korea damaging part of a main grandstand. Korea is due to stage the grand prix on the 24th October but was not ready for the standard pre-race approval inspection normally due 90 days prior to the race. A last minute inspection is scheduled for October 11th.
A crane operator working for a roofing contractor is in hospital today with severe burns after the boom of his truck crane came into contact with power lines in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The accident, which happened on Monday night, also cut power to thousands of homes within a 30 block area.
The Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office, Thursday, released dramatic video of a crane crushing a deputy’s squad car in a chain reaction accident last week. The images of the accident at Hillsborough Avenue and 56th Street were captured by a security camera aboard a HART bus.
As far as the construction sites are concerned, the availability of the mobile cranes ensures implementation of these types of heavy tasks to give the workers some relief. Whereas the counter balance lift truck is an equipment that is concerned with loading and unloading different goods and products from one place to another.
A mobile crane tipped over at a ConocoPhillips site in Hartford, Illinois on Thursday injuring the operator. The crane a Grove YardBoss YB7725 was said to be lifting pipes onto a trailer when it tipped.
The sight of a construction crane balanced vertically stopped people in their tracks at the Westminster Manor Retirement Community construction site Friday. A mobile crane tipped over backwards in the 4700 block of Jackson Avenue near Camp Mabry late Friday morning.
A commercial crane boom fell across the aft section of the cruiser Monterey at Norfolk Naval Station Monday as the operator was preparing to lift watertight doors off the deck, causing minor damage but no injuries. High winds were the apparent cause, according to Surface Force Atlantic.
The accident happened near Northeast 10th Street and Hiwassee Road in Choctaw. Workers said a construction crew was repairing a bridge when part of a crane fell on the man’s head. Sky5 flew over the scene, and emergency personnel were taking a man to an ambulance by stretcher