by Crane Market | May 11, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Worksafe BC is investigating after a worker was killed in an accident on the North Shore Wednesday. West Vancouver police said the incident happened at a work site just off Cypress Bowl Road around 1:30 p.m. “A worker was apparently thrown from an excavator when...
by Crane Market | May 8, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Ports & Terminals, Workforce News
DP World has confirmed that ten workers have suffered injuries after a CMA CGM container vessel collided with the harbour wall at the Port of Jebel Ali, striking the leg of a quay crane causing it to fall. According to DP World, one person suffered a fractured arm and...
by Crane Market | May 4, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Involuntary manslaughter charges were dismissed Monday against a crane operator involved in a deadly Winters bridge construction accident that claimed the lives of his own son and a co-worker three years ago. Mark Powell still faces two felony counts of violating...
by Crane Market | May 1, 2017 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Six people were killed and 22 are injured when a gantry crane fell on a ship under construction in South Korea on Monday, an official said. Two cranes collided at a Samsung Heavy Industries shipyard in Geoje city, causing a structure to fall on a ship, Yonhap news...
by Crane Market | Apr 25, 2017 | Crane & Lifting News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
Dallas Fire-Rescue responded to a tipped over National NBT40 boom truck crane mounted on a Freightliner chassis Monday afternoon on the outskirts of Downtown Dallas. When firefighters arrived at the location, just behind the Dallas Black Arts Dance Theatre, they found...
by Crane Market | Apr 19, 2017 | Energy News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
A Maine man was killed Tuesday after the crane he was operating struck a high-tension power line at a construction site, police said. David Sprague, 59, of Windham, Maine, was operating a crane on a wind turbine construction site in Searsburg around 11 a.m. Tuesday,...