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Crawler crane boom collapse in Nova Scotia

The boom of a 200 tonne lattice crawler crane came crashing down onto a boom lift and barge on Thursday. Thankfully no one was injured in the incident, which occurred while a...

Crane overturns in Oklahoma City

A truck crane overturned at a hospital site in Oklahoma City yesterday, while lifting a large cooling unit. Thankfully no one was injured in the incident, although the operat...

Loader crane pruning

A reader in the UK spotted a team of arborists trimming trees from a suspended platform and loader crane. The scene is probably best explained in our correspondent’s own word...

Crane operators strike on Glasgow site

A number of tower crane operators - said to be 14 or 15 –have walked out on strike on the new Southern General hospital job site in Glasgow Scotland. The operators, employed ...

Tower crane prank proves fatal

A man in his 20s is dead this morning after he and a group of friends broke into a job site in Manly, Sydney, Australia just after midnight and climbed a 40 metre tower crane....

Four year old hit by falling scaffold

A mother and four year old daughter suffered injuries after being hit by a scaffold board that fell during the dismantling of a scaffold in Manhattan, New York. Workers were ...

Boom truck overturns in New Hampshire

A boom truck crashed into the roof of a house in Concord New Hampshire yesterday as it attempted to lift parts of a tree from the rear garden. The operator said that he had s...

Crawler crane closes road

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening. The crane was working on the construction of the second ...

Levelling Death Wish

Spotted by a regular reader in Slovakia, a compact Rough Terrain scissor lift being used on a slope, the machine was fitted with levelling jacks so no problem there …. except ...

Bucket truck overturns in Ohio

An employee of Cleveland Public Power in Ohio was thrown from the platform of a bucket truck early this morning after it overturned. The man was working on the lights alongsi...