A shortage of crane operators and mechanics is being eyed as a possible contributing factor in a crane fatality in Bellevue, WA. A 210-foot (64-meter) tall tower crane flipped over and crashed into an apartment building, killing a resident.
A laborer at a surface quarry mine was trying to take apart a crane boom to install additional sections. He had trouble removing one of the pins holding two sections together. While underneath an unsupported
It's a story that first warms the heart and then freeze-dries it. Betty Jean Deyo and Joel Ridley were childhood friends, but they lost touch for decades.
A journeyman ironworker fell through a roof and died of a brain injury. He and a co-worker were working on the roof of a building being dismantled. They were in the process of removing large
A large steel beam fell from a storage crib and crushed a worker to death. The fatality happened when a crane operator was positioning the structural steel building beam on a rack for storage before
A service worker for a security alarm system company died after a 35 foot (10.6 meter) fall.
An overhead crane operator died when a bale of steel slipped off the C-hook and hit him. He had positioned the bale incorrectly on the C-hook, so it was not balanced and centered. Ordinarily he
A worker was crushed by a load of steel when it was knocked off a truck. She was assisting at the receiving end of an operation loading 50-foot steel I-beams onto a truck. Her job
A home builder in Winnipeg, MB, has been fined $30,000 after a worker was electrocuted when the boom of the crane he was operating touched overhead wires.
An experienced crane operator was running an electrically powered gantry crane in a process building which was in the final stages of construction. Other than the occasional use of a propane-powered forklift, there were no
About mid-day a foreman and three carpenters were assisting a crane operator with the placement of a 6000 pound steel mat. The mat was constructed of approximately 80 pieces of reinforcing steel each weighing about
A marina worker died of head injuries when a 30-ton tugboat slipped in a lifting harness.
Two workers died of oxygen deprivation as they were repairing the concrete wall at a garbage disposal site. One of them had been attaching anchor bolts to the wall of an intake pit and was
A crew had been contracted to clean nets at an ocean-side fish farm. They were working aboard a barge which was fitted with a fixed boom crane. This crane was being used to lift a
A maintenance mechanic died when he was crushed between an overhead bridge - crane and a light fixture.
A worker attaching wire rope slings to a walkway was electrocuted when a crane operator swung the main boom of the crane over a walkway. The 56 foot steel walkway was to be used for
A large diesel fuel tank fell on a worker who was helping move it into place. The tank measured six feet in diameter by nearly 20 feet in length. It weighed 3,000 pounds when empty
One laborer was electrocuted and two others were injured when a boom crane with an attached auger accidentally came into contact with a 7,200-volt overhead power line running above a materials storage yard.
A man working in the recycling business was electrocuted when he was helping move some scrap metal stored beneath a power line.
A worker received massive head injuries when a crane lifting a 54,600-pound piece of steel tipped over. The crane was unstable because one outrigger device, which extends from the crane to balance it was inoperable.
A forklift shop technician was crushed when the forks of a lift he was working on fell and landed on his chest.
A worker died of electrocution when a cable hanging from a crane touched a high voltage power line. He was helping to unload concrete pilings from a flatbed truck, and was guiding the pilings as
A student working on a summer job was electrocuted when a truck-mounted crane he was operating struck a power line. The driver of the truck instructed the student to move the crane, then backed the
A crane oiler was crushed between counterweights and the superstructure (base) of a rotating mobile crane.
Early in the evening an operator of a crane was installing storm sewer pipes. Suddenly, the boom of the crane contacted the overhead high tension wires. A pipe layer who was guiding the pipe as
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