April Reports Received: 7
April Deaths: 1
Deaths to date for 1999: 5 (reported to this site)
Accident Reports Received for 1999: 19
Late reports are not included in the above numbers.
The above numbers are global.
 April 24, 1999: Rosemount, Minnesota - Koch Petroleum Refinery | Dead Link |
Personnel responded quickly today to ensure the safety of refinery employees after a steel vessel dropped about eight feet to the ground from a crane cable. The incident resulted in only one minor injury.
April 24, 1999: Augusta, Georgia Anthony crane crashes at Riverwalk site
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A routine drill to test Augusta's ability to protect downtown from floods went awry Tuesday when a crane hired to lift logs into openings in the levee tipped over and injured the operator.
April 24, 1999: Ogden, Utah... Up to 110 mile per hour wind gusts topples crane. Photo shows the crane boom draping over a tall building.
Photos-click on links below.* See Story The Salt Lake City Tribune
 Link contents replaced! Gone, replaced, just like that.
Yesterday, 4/24/99, this great photo shot by Al Hartmann was on their site, including a news article about the toppled crane. It's all replaced today. Up one day and gone the next. See Footnote
As reported by S t a n d a r d N E T Ogden, Utah (no photos) | Dead Link |
4/25/99: Ah-Ha, there is nothing like good old competition. StandardNET now has a photo up. | Dead Link |
4/27/99: They changed photos again today. Yesterday's photo is gone, gone, gone... See Footnote
April 20, 1999: Another crane accident in San Diego today. The crane was lifting tilt up walls and the boom buckled. The panel was in the 140,000 pound range. It is reported that no one was hurt. More Details
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April 20, 1999: There was a crane accident in the Phoenix area this morning. The operator jumped from the crane and broke his ankle. Making lifts without the outriggers extended to the proper position will usually result in an accident. Look at the outriggers, they are retracted all the way in. Fellows, there are NO short cuts to safety!
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April 12, 1999: Atlanta, Georgia
A construction worker, Iver Sims, was trapped on top of a swaying, 250-foot crane above a raging fire for more than an hour was rescued Monday by a fire fighter dangling perilously from a helicopter cable. Good job fellows! Hats off to Fire and Emergency Rescue Teams throughout the world. You are appreciated!
Photos-click on links below.
Catch it on the * MSNBC Web site The MSNBC link is now dead (a 404 error msg. replaced the page) Read this Footnote.
As Reported by CNN News
April 12, 2000 — Year after mill fire, rescuer, rescued still in touch.
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06/10/02: A simular rescue US pilot plucks workers off Kuwait towering inferno | Dead Link |
5/18/04 Wollongong, Australia — Crane driver rescued from above burning building
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April 8, 1999: Norolk, Virginia — Searches end without finding crane operator
BY CINDY CLAYTON, The Virginian-Pilot Copyright 1999, Landmark Communications Inc.
NORFOLK --Police, Coast Guard and private divers suspended their searches Wednesday for a missing crane operator who fell into the Elizabeth River after a bridge collapsed Tuesday night at
Norshipco. | Dead Link | After the all-night search for George T. Freeman of Eure, N.C., was suspended by Norfolk police divers and the Coast Guard at 5 a.m. Wednesday, Norshipco officials called Crofton Diving Corp. of Portsmouth to resume dive operations, officials said.
They found Mr. Freeman's body Saturday, April 17, at 5:45 PM about 100 feet from where he was last seen going under.
April 9, 1999: A forklift operator was killed this afternoon in Fort Meyers, Florida. Not much for details, except the forklift rolled over the operator. OSHA personnel are investigating the accident.
Last week a bucket truck operator was electrocuted when his boom came into contact with some power lines. He hung there for more than an hour before the power could be shut off. Some of the local fire and medical personnel are having a hard time coping with what they saw. Again, this accident was also in the Fort Meyers area.
About a month ago another operator was killed when the backhoe he was operating near the waters edge turned over into the water. The operator was pinned underneath the machine and drowned. This accident also happened in the Fort Meyers area.
Ted's Sheds, Inc., a local storage shed builder, lost a forklift operator in 1998 when he was pinned between the machine and a load.
Not only are contractors, and others, failing to train young men and women to replace those retiring from the trade, they are helping destroy the ones they now have by condoning unsafe work practices.
While I'm on my *stump*....
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