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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Links | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | Reports | By Company Name | August Reports Received: 16 August Deaths: 7 Accident Reports Received for 2001: 114 Deaths to date for 2001: 80 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — August 2001 |
  08/31/01: Fremont, California — Power line carrying 230,000 volts burns construction workerIn what Fremont firefighters called an "extraordinary" survival, a 22-year-old construction worker was listed in fair condition after coming too close to a transmission line. The electrical jolt that hit Adolfo Diaz of San Leandro was so powerful that it ripped a four-foot-wide hole in the asphalt under the portable lift he was working on. This is the 22nd incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work equipment near energized power lines. |
 08/30/01: Tampa, Florida — A construction worker has died after being crushed by a crane, officials said.The accident happened Tuesday at 6 p.m. at 5801 Commerce St. (Tuesday August 21, 2001) Kenneth Douglas Oliver, 47, of 4803 Ingraham St. was working on the ground near a large crane when the crane pinned him against a concrete beam, police said. Oliver, who worked for Standard Concrete Co., suffered internal injuries and was flown to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. |
| 08/30/01: Gardnerville, Nevada — Construction worker killed in Gardnerville accident |
| 08/29/01: Ithaca — New York Close call at Eckerd site | Cache Copy | 2 struck by toppled crane escape serious injury Two construction workers escaped serious injury Tuesday morning when a crane lowering a steel beam into place at an unfinished store on Meadow Street tipped over, crashing into the site. |
| 08/23/01: Augusta, Georgia — Crane accident kills ironworker An 18-year-old construction worker was killed Wednesday in an accident near the UCB Chemical Corp. on Revco Road in North Augusta. Damion Ashley Heard, an ironworker from Decatur, Ala., died about 2:45 p.m. while working to secure a crane for travel on a boom truck, said UCB Vice President Michael O'Brien. Suitt Construction |
| 08/22/01: Singapore — Business as usual at shopping arcade after crane accident |
| 08/21/01: New York — Crane Topples at Queens College |
| 08/20/01: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma — Worker Injured When Crane Line Snaps |
| 08/11/01: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK — Crane crash shock STAFF at a North Sea service company in Aberdeen had a lucky escape yesterday when the jib of a 90-tonne mobile crane crashed through the roof of a workshop. |
| 08/10/01: New York — Forman Crushed To Death at Site |
| 08/08/01: Abu Dhabi — Crane collapses at demolition site It is reported a crane deployed at a demolition site opposite Mariah Cinema at Al Najda street in Abu Dhabi collapsed yesterday, the third accident at the site in less than ten days. The crane operator is reported to have escaped unhurt and the debris hurtling down the building under demolition did not cause damage to any of the parked cars. A worker at another construction site close by cited the need for proper training to crane operators as well as periodic maintenance of construction equipment, in order to prevent the recurrence of such accidents. |
| 08/07/01: Idaho Falls, Idaho — Crane Tips Over At Church |
| 08/05/01: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia — Construction worker crushed to death at Southbank | Dead Link | (use link below) It is reported there was a fatal accident involving a 300D Favelle tower crane today. Apparently, a rigging crew was climbing the crane and either through failure of the counter-weight locking mechanism or other cause, the counter-weights were allowed to run free to the bottom of the machine deck, slicing through the end stops, then falling through a rising Alimak (man & materials hoist) destroying the Alimak and taking the hoist operator, a 08/15/01 update: Crane inspection blitz follows Australian accident Workers are getting fed up with unsafe workplaces. 08/06/01 update: Crane related death sparks review Tough new guidelines for cranes on building sites were issued late yesterday following the death of a construction worker on Sunday. 03/20/02 update: Firm charged over death Union slaps work ban on Baulderstone 3/29/2004 update: Unsafe workplace guilty plea 5/31/04: Company received Victoria's second largest fine for a fatal workplace accident. Fred Smith, 53, was killed on a Southbank work site when a 20 tonne counter weight fell from a crane in August 2001. Balderstone Hornibrook pleaded guilty to three charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act including a charge relating to the company's failure to take into account weather forecasts for gusty winds when the hazardous crane operation was undertaken. The County Court heard the strong winds forced the crane boom to be held up but when the gusts eased the boom dropped more than 20 metres causing the counter weight to dislodge and crash through several concrete floors. The court fined the company $375,000 after finding the accident could have been prevented. |
| 08/02/01: Perigueux, France — French Train Derailed by Crane |
| 08/02/01: Wellington, New Zealand — Crane Accident Blocks Street |
| 08/01/01: Farmington, North Carolina — Two die when crane collapses in Davie County | Dead Link | The men fell more than 150 feet from inside a crane reportedly owned and operated by Guy M. Turner Inc., of Greensboro. The men worked for Caldwell Tanks, of Louisville Ky., which is building a water tank for Davie County. Two cranes operated by Guy M. Turner Inc. of Greensboro were being used to put together a third crane. While workers were trying to attach the last piece of the new crane, a 10,000-pound pipe shifted and caused the crane to buckle and snap. The men working inside the pipe were killed. Both of the men were from Kentucky, and their names have not been released. A woman who was renting a house nearby to the men said that when she heard the crane snap it sounded like thunder. 01/13/02 Update: Tank company fined for deaths of two workers07/31/04 Update: Davie County cleared in 2001 deaths | Cache Copy | County could not have known site was unsafe, judge rules |