Crane Accidents #7
This page was last updated on 05/06/2010
Crane crushes three cars Massive vehicle topples on Hackensack … (a 45-foot, 50-ton construction crane, employed for structural work at the apartment complex, toppled onto a string of parked cars – according to police, the massive crane was off-loading equipment for the work – operator in the back of the cab, felt the cab begin to tip – he must have felt something wasn’t right because he jumped out and yelled, ‘Run, run’)
Roadwork crane plunges into yard (a crane operating on the shoulder of northbound I-5 tipped over – the crane’s boom fell down an embankment and landed in a residential back yard – the cab of the crane remained on the shoulder of the freeway – the crane did not break apart – boom crushed a small shed in the back yard of a home – no injuries as a result of the 2 a.m. incident)
12:14 pm | Worker critically hurt in accident (worker, 45, was working at a construction site when a 4,000-pound wall being lowered by a crane fell, trapping him)
Crane tips over near I-75 (a crane tipped over near Interstate 75 injuring the driver and spilling several hundred gallons of diesel fuel – it was unclear why the crane had tipped)
Crane Snaps In Aberdeen (the machine was lifting a slab of cement when it snapped and came within inches of crushing the cab he was sitting in – authorities aren’t sure why the crane snapped – workers were lifting a 50,000 pound cement slab as while working on a parking ramp – that’s when the crane, that’s supposed to be able to hold 142 tons, snapped – photo @ link)
UPDATE C.L. Construction & General Contractors Limited fined $100,000 for health and safety violation (workers were engaged in the forming and pouring of concrete foundation walls when an extendable boom on a concrete pump truck came into contact with an energized, 27,600-volt overhead powerline. The truck operator suffered burns to a thumb and foot. A second worker, who was holding a hose connected to the boom, suffered severe burns to both hands and feet. The electrical current also flowed into an adjacent ready-mix concrete truck causing a third worker, who was standing on the truck’s rear platform, to be knocked to the ground. While the third worker was being assisted by a fourth worker, the electrical current caused one of the ready-mix concrete truck’s tires to explode. Both the third and fourth workers were struck by the tire and thrown through the air, landing on hard surfaces)
Accident claims Nisku worker (the victim was working with oilfield tanks suspended from a crane and was caught between two of them)
Construction Accident Injures 2 Near Wilson Bridge (the accident occurred when a crane overturned where workers are building a new interchange)
Construction worker in stable condition, bridge construction … (a journeyman carpenter, injured in a construction accident at the bridge site, is in stable condition – was part of a crew laying support beams – the accident occurred when one of the beams broke – it was suspended from a crane at the time of the break and fell to the ground)
70-ton segment of I-280 bridge falls during test at North Toledo … (a 70-ton precast concrete bridge segment fell 18 inches to the ground after a mechanical failure at the I-280 construction site injuring no one but disrupting the project for the second time in two weeks – a 6-inch-diameter shaft in a hoisting assembly called a manipulator broke as the segment was lifted slowly off the ground during a test – workers had just installed a different manipulator on the gantry crane being used to assemble bridge spans because construction had proceeded to a stage in which unbalanced precast segments are involved)
Nobody Injured When Crane Topples Over At Santa Monica Pier (a large crane toppled over at the Santa Monica Pier, but no one was hurt – the 28,000-pound crane was being used to lift construction materials as part of an ongoing project to strengthen the pier when it toppled over – the crane “slowly rolled over” onto its side)
UPDATE $1.35m award over crane accident (a jury today awarded $1.35 million to a man whose pelvis was crushed when an eight-tonne concrete panel being lifted by a crane was dropped on him – lawyer said the accident might have been avoided if the snatch block on the crane had been fitted with a locking pin, estimated to cost about $10, a practice introduced since his client’s accident)
Accident injures crane operator (one person was taken to the hospital after a crane working on a natural gas well twisted and broke – the crane operator fell approximately five to six feet from the cab of the crane, injuring his shoulder – when the accident occurred employees were performing general maintenance on the well)
UPDATE Fined for causing accident at Freeport (a 40-year-old man was fined Lm500 after he was found guilty of charges of causing serious injuries through negligence or lack of thought to his work colleague – the accident took place on August 19th, 1999, when he was operating a fork-lifter crane known as tank master in order to lift a container and move it from one place to another – hit a container that was on top of another three containers and toppled it over – the container fell and plunged over the tank master’s cabin and consequently injured the worker)
UPDATE Wabi Iron & Steel Corp. fined $50,000 for health and safety violation ( worker was using an “overhead travelling crane” (a crane that moves along an overhead rail) to lift a stack of seven large steel “moulding boxes” (boxes used as moulds for the fabrication of metal parts) when a 0.953-centimetre (3/8-inch) lifting chain broke causing a “spreader beam” (a large beam used to stabilize a load that is being lifted) to break apart and fly over the boxes. The worker was struck by the beam on the left side of the head and chest and was taken by ambulance to hospital in North Bay with broken bones, lacerations and a fracture to the front of the skull)
Ministry investigates man’s fall from crane bucket (officials are investigating an accident that sent a man to a hospital after a 20-foot fall from a truck crane bucket – the man was in a “cherry picker,” an elevated platform attached to a truck, and was changing a light bulb in a street lamp when the truck apparently moved – its extendable boom got caught in an overhead cable and bent, tipping the bucket and resulted in the worker falling 20 feet to the ground)
Two injured after crane accident [17/02/2006] (two workers were seriously injured when they fell from a crane – the two men, aged 34 and 39, were doing some work in the crane when the cabin got dislodged and fell a height of about seven metres into a field with the two men inside)
Worker dies when trench collapses (a 25-year-old plumber died after he was trapped beneath the surface of a trench that collapsed – man was installing water and sewer lines for a new house – had worked for the company for three years)
Crane moving palm tree crashes into breezeway (a crane crashed into a hallway connecting two condo buildings during the grand opening – no one was hurt when the crane came crashing down about 1:34 p.m. – the crane’s operator was bringing a palm tree over a breezeway that connects two buildings at the complex – firefighters do not know what caused the crane to fall but they do not think the tree’s weight was the culprit)
Injured crane operator in fair condition (a man is in fair condition after being trapped under an 86-thousand-pound crane for almost an hour – two cranes were attempting to load a third upper crane deck onto a base when one of the cranes malfunctioned and sent the deck crashing into the ground – 45-year-old crane operator suffered leg injuries and a broken arm and wrist when his cab was slammed up against the upper crane deck that was lying on the ground)
Crane accident at Syncrude injures six (six workers were injured when a crane fell on a trailer – all six employees had minor injuries – crane was in the area doing some shutdown work – believes some of the injured workers were near the crane but she’s not sure if the others were inside the trailer when the crane fell)
Metro Worker Injured After Crane Accident (a crane operator, 45, was trapped for 50 minutes after a crane fell and crushed its cab – crane tipped over, smashed against the unit he was trying to transport (and) compressed him inside – suffered a broken ankle and wrist as well as leg trauma)
UPDATE Six hurt as crane crushes building ( I will be posting accident photos of this incident this week in the members area)
Crane blamed for power outage (crane on the barge somehow got into the lines – no other details)