2010 Crane & Bucket Truck Accidents
thru 1/31/10
CRANE FATALITY Worker For Atlanta Company Killed In SC (a construction worker died after being struck by a beam at an Air Force Base in South Carolina – he was helping with the construction of the new headquarters – he was on an I-beam 20 feet above the ground when another I-beam that was being lowered by a crane hit him)
CRANE FATALITY Worker killed at Erie locomotive plant (a crane operator, 46, at a locomotive plant is dead after being crushed by a part he was moving – he was pronounced dead at the plant – he was killed when a part that weighs several tons tipped over after he set it down with a remote-controlled crane – he was an experienced crane operator)
CRANE COLLAPSE Crane collapse won’t slow Cypress Avenue bridge construction (a construction crane collapse closed a Bridge, ruptured a sewer line and snarled traffic east and west of the span – no one was injured and no cars or trucks were damaged when the crane’s boom fell into the gap between the north and south sides of the span, where crews are building the trestle needed to complete the middle part of the bridge – there was no damage to the bridge structure – city officials said they think a hoist cable in the Manatowoc 222 crane snapped, causing the arm to drop onto the deck – they also think the heavy hook at the end of the cable punctured the new 16-inch sewer line under the north span, causing wastewater to spill into the river – crews worked well into the evening to lift the damaged crane arm off the bridge and staunch the leak in the sewer line)
CRANE ACCIDENT 2 workers injured after strong winds topple crane in Hachioji (a crane collapsed after being blown over by strong winds, leaving two workers injured, one seriously – at around 9 a.m., rescue workers received an emergency call reporting that a crane fell down at a construction site – the crane’s arm hit an 18-year-old worker, seriously injuring him, while its 45-year-old operator suffered minor wounds – a worker who was at the site when the accident occurred said it fell down after being blown over by strong winds – the operator of the crane was turning the vehicle around while lifting up a steel plate weighing about 250 kilograms when the vehicle was blown over by a gust of wind)
CRANE FATALITY Man dead after metal beam falls on him (a man, 40, died after a metal beam weighing approximately 1,500 pounds fell on him – he was reportedly attaching a safety cable to the beam when it fell – accident occurred in an outdoor area where several beams were being erected – he and others were attempting to erect two I-beams in an “X” pattern when one of the 35-foot-tall beams fell – he was pronounced deceased at the scene)
CRANE Crane accident hurts the driver (a crane driver got badly hurt in a crane accident – the diver who has now been hospitalised had broken a leg and sustained minor injuries – the crane fell over when carrying cement bags to sheet the second floor of the neighbouring house – during the incident, the roof over the sitting room of a building was damaged, but no one in the house was hurt)
CRANE Crane boom collapses; no injuries reported (a crane boom collapsed – no injuries and no extensive property damage were reported – a small utility shed located behind a business was destroyed in the crane’s fall at about 3 p.m. as workers were attempting to pin the 350-ton crane’s boom after the move of a structure)
CRANE Crane falls over, hits power line (a crane fell over and landed on a power line at a construction site – the crane tipped over into the power line at approximately 3:30 p.m. – no one got hurt)
CRANE Boom! Crane topples over (nobody was injured when a large crane toppled in an engineering yard – a five-axle Liebherr LTM 1100 crane ended up with wheels in the air and its right-hand rear side crunched against the ground after the accident – the large telescopic boom of the crane, which stretches from 11.5m to 52m, was bent by the force of the collapse, but no injuries were reported as a result of the incident – the boom is believed to be able to be fixed – what the crane was lifting at the time of the accident is not known – copyrighted photo @ link)