by admin | Nov 15, 2016 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A Florida Mechanical Systems, Inc. All Terrain Crane lifting air conditioning units he roof of the Williams Family YMCA in Mandarin, FLtipped over Tuesday morning, hitting the building and forcing a partial evacuation. No one was injured when the crane’s boom...
by admin | Nov 12, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A crawler mounted access platform lift stuck on top of a 51-story building at in Sydney has now been safely lowered, builder Lendlease has said. The derrick crane became jammed while trying to lower the machinery, which was then left suspended high above the ground....
by admin | Nov 12, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
The wife of a man killed in a crash on May 26, 2016 which Machine.Market reported on is suing two tire companies she says are responsible for the blowout which caused a 1980 Grove 3 axle mobile telescopic truck crane to lose control. Crane Operator, John Wells was...
by admin | Nov 8, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A spider access crawler lift is dangling around 50 storys above a street in Barangaroo, Sydney, following the failure of a roof mounted derrick crane. Hundreds of people have been evacuated but no one has been injured on the ground, and an exclusion zone is now in...
by admin | Nov 3, 2016 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
The study defined the interactions between the human factor and technical factors in crane accidents. Scientists at Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have suggested a way to map out patterns of near-miss accidents involving cranes at building sites...
by admin | Oct 27, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
SINGAPORE – A panel of experts will study ways to improve the safety of lorry cranes, which are involved in 30 per cent of all crane-related accidents in Singapore. The workgroup was set up after the increasing number of “dangerous occurrences”...
