by Crane Market | May 4, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A construction worker has had a lucky escape after falling four metres when a large crane collapsed at a construction site on Thursday morning. The incident at Taree, in northern New South Wales, left a man in his 40s with a broken leg despite causing severe damage to...
by Crane Market | May 4, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Involuntary manslaughter charges were dismissed Monday against a crane operator involved in a deadly Winters bridge construction accident that claimed the lives of his own son and a co-worker three years ago. Mark Powell still faces two felony counts of violating...
by Crane Market | May 1, 2017 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Six people were killed and 22 are injured when a gantry crane fell on a ship under construction in South Korea on Monday, an official said. Two cranes collided at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje city, causing a structure to fall on a ship, Yonhap news...
by Crane Market | Apr 26, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A lattice boom crawler crane being used on the construction site of the new Regional Care Hospital in Florence, Alabama tip over. According to Melissa Watkins, communications director at Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital, no one was injured and no damage was done....
by Crane Market | Apr 25, 2017 | Crane & Lifting News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
NORTH MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – No one was injured after a boomtruck crane owned by Montano’s New Season LLC fell over and into a house under construction on 6th Avenue South in North Myrtle Beach Tuesday morning, a city official confirmed. The boom truck crane...
by Crane Market | Apr 25, 2017 | Crane & Lifting News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to a tipped over National NBT40 boom truck crane mounted on a Freightliner chassis Monday afternoon on the outskirts of Downtown Dallas. When firefighters arrived at the location, just behind the Dallas Black Arts Dance Theatre, they found...