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Contractors found guilty
Two UK contractors, Bowmer & Kirkland and Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws following the collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool in 2009. They will be sentenced on Friday. The crane went over a apartment block at Chandlers Wharf and threw the operator, Iain Gillham...
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Man injured loading boom
A man was seriously injured yesterday while loading a large boom lift in Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The man was loading a Terex (Marklift) telescopic boom onto a low loader when it appears to have slipped off the side and rolled, the operator/driver has either been thrown from the platform...
Miraculous escape
We have been sent some photos of a car crushed by a telescopic loader crane that overturned onto it in China. Miraculously the occupants escaped with minor injuries. The accident actually looks more like a road accident than a lifting one, but somehow the truck and its heavy XCMG loader crane managed to flip onto its side landing on a family car t...
Trailer overturns
A 13 tonne trailer carrying a self-propelled boom lift overturned as the towing vehicle, reportedly a dump truck, took a corner too fast in the town of Plenty, Victoria – North East of Melbourne in Australia. The incident occurred on Saturday afternoon, fortunately no one was injured, although traffic was stopped for a few hours....
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