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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | By Company Name May Reports Received: 14 May Deaths: 5 Accident Reports Received for 2002: 62 Deaths to date for 2002: 24 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — May 2002
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| 05/31/02: Perth, Australia — Mobile Crane turned over in school yard | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | Photo |
 05/30/02: Nogales, Arizona — Crane operator crushed at Wal-Mart| Dead Link | | Cache Copy | The victim has been identified as Randall Alan Marry, 45, of Phoenix. Statewide Erectors, Inc. – 6300 N. 27th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85017 |
| 05/29/02: San Jose, California — Overturned Truck Crane Slows South Bay Commute | Cache Copy | |
 05/25/02: Bastrop, Texas — Two die, one injured, after fall from tower under constructionTwo technicians working on a wireless communications tower died after a fall Wednesday. Timothy Paul Deslatte, 27 of New Braunfels and Joe Edward Palalfox, 22, of Waco died at 4:15 p.m. while installing equipment for Verizon Wireless near the community of Lincoln. Another man was injured. A worker lowering the men in harnesses from the tower lost control of the rope and the men fell two hundred feet, the sheriff's office said.  Failure to Protect Tower Construction Workers Brings
New Braunfels, Texas, Firm $44,100 in OSHA Fines | Cache Copy | |
| 05/23/02: Sequim, Washington — Tipsy crane narrowly misses duplexes | Cache Copy | Jay Ketcham, owner of Affordable Roofing, said a stabilizer arm broke on the crane causing it to roll onto its right side. Crane operator, Jay Edwin Ketchum, faces weapons charge | Cache Copy | |
| 05/20/02: Angostura, South Dakota — Crane operator killed | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | A man working for a North Dakota-based crane company died Saturday afternoon when the crane he was operating tipped over on the face of the Angostura Reservoir dam south of Hot Springs. Crane operator was experienced | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 05/18/02: Perth, Australia — Site crane fall imperils workers | Dead Link | More Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) spokesman Joe McDonald said he would call a meeting of crane drivers next week in response to the fifth worksite accident involving a crane in just nine days. | Cache Copy | |
| 05/17/02: Orlando, Florida — Strong Winds Topple Crane At UCF | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | |
| 05/16/02: Waco, Texas — Crane falls, damages museum under construction at Baylor | Dead link | | Cache Copy | See Photos (3) |
| 05/15/02: San Diego, California — Worker crushed after crane hits cable holding steel frame (rebar cage)
| Cache Copy | A 31-year-old man working on the San Diego Trolley extension was killed yesterday when a crane accident led to the collapse of an 80-foot column being built to support a bridge, authorities said. The 12:12 p.m. accident west of Waring Road apparently happened when part of the crane struck a cable that was holding up the steel frame for the bridge support, police said. The impact snapped the cable, causing the steel frame to collapse. |
| 05/15/02: Wellington, New Zealand — Man injured on WGTN waterfront | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
 Dummy Award 05/09/02: Auburn, Maine — Wire goes down on bridge, sparking fire, disrupting traffic | Cache Copy |See large photo This is the 10th  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.See the CraneTalk BB for more |
| 05/04/02: Perth, Australia — Crane driver up in the air | Dead Link | | Cache Copy - see below | Copyrighted photo is not posted, however, it is similar this one. WOW! A 40-year-old man was lucky to escape injury yesterday when the 175-tonne crane he was operating tipped backwards, leaving him stuck several metres off the ground in the cab. The man had been using the crane to lift a 27.3-tonne concrete slab on a building site in the Malaga industrial area about 1pm. It is understood the load, which was being carried behind the crane, was about 1.5m off the ground when the crane tipped up on its rear. Fellow workers used a ladder to get the man out of the cab, which was 4m in the air. He was taken by ambulance to Royal Perth Hospital unhurt but with severe shock. None of his workmates was injured when the crane toppled but many were shaken by the incident. Ballajura Const. Travis Walsh said the workers believed the man had either over-extended the crane or the wind had blown it over. The company which owned the equipment, Tom's Cranes, brought in several other big cranes to right it. |
| 05/03/02: Manhattan, New York — Crane Drops Load of steel | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | More Than 6 Tons Of Steel Tumble To Ground In Midtown Construction Accident. |