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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | By Company Name April Reports Received: 14 April Deaths: 6 Accident Reports Received for 2002: 48 Deaths to date for 2002: 19 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — April 2002 |
| 04/29/02: New York — Crane Hangs Over Manhattan Street | Dead Link | | Cache Copy No Photos | |
 04/26/02: UK — Motorway crane crash man 'serious'| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | David Boardman, a 40-YEAR-OLD Leigh man is seriously ill in hospital after the crane he was driving overturned on a motorway. |
  04/26/02: Memphis, Tennessee — LG&W worker killed as crane hits power line | Registration req'd |Photo  This is the 9th (AVOIDABLE!) incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001. Again, all were avoidable.
Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 04/25/02: UK — Man killed in crane tragedy | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | A grieving wife today spoke of her torment at losing her childhood sweetheart in a freak workplace accident. Roger Ireland, 52, of Oval Road, Costessey, died after a large steel plate being carried by a crane swung around and hit him on the back of the head at scrap metal merchants Easco, in Lenwade. Editor Comment: This incident is especially disturbing. Read it all. 6/21/04: Construction sites set for safety checks | Cache Copy | |
| 04/23/02: Brisbane, Australia — Power cut as crane drops load | Cache Copy | |
| 04/21/02: Monomonee, Wisconsin — Crane fails at hospital construction site. | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Jib folded. |
| 04/20/02: Surry, Virginia — Workers rescued from crane in Surry Power Station | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 04/19/02: Tonopah, Arizona — Worker killed by falling girder | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 04/17/02: New York, New York — Crane Accident Shuts Down Madison Avenue Between 34th-42nd
Streets | Cache Copy | 04/18/02: Crane drops girders on Madison Avenue | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 04/18/02: CRANE COLLAPSE A LUCKY 'BREAK' | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 04/16/02: Australia — Employee Pinned Between Ground Operated Vehicle Loading Crane Boom and its Control Reportedly, he was operating the controls at the rear of the truck (crane rear mounted). Boom came in and crushed him between the controls/truck body and boom. |
| 04/14/02: Elkhart, Indiana — American Electric Power Co. (AEP) worker electrocuted | Subscription Site | This is the 8th (AVOIDABLE!) incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 04/09/02: Geneva, Florida — Power line worker electrocuted in Seminole County | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 7th (AVOIDABLE!) incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
04/04/02: Denver, Colorado — Construction crane falls onto Interstate 25 in south Denver crushing two cars and injuring three people. | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 07/05/02: Fine proposed in T-REX accident| Dead Link | | Cache Copy | 04/05/02: T-REX Crane Operator To Be Charged| Cache Copy | (Photos) The 70-foot crane was moving a concrete barrier when it suddenly toppled over onto the interstate, covering all three lanes and crushing two cars. 04/05/02: Company suspended after I-25 crane fall See the very neat diagram at the bottom of page.Hats off (hard hats too) to the folks at Denver Post for some good coverage of this incident. Hopefully, the material will stay available for future generations 04/05/02: Survivor 'thought that was it' | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 04/05/02: Crane's stabilizers scrutinized | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | A similar accident happened in Burlington, North Carolina on I-85 in February. The driver of the vehicle was killed. 04/25/02 update: After T-REX accident, cranes to be used less often| Cache Copy | Forklifts and backhoes will be used to place concrete barriers for channeling traffic. |
| 04/01/02: East London, South Africa — Crane collapses, four escape serious injury | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |