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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Links | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | Reports | By Company Name | January Reports Received: 24 January Deaths: 14 Accident Reports Received for 2005: 24 Deaths to date for 2005: 14 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — January 2005 |
 1/31/05: Dearborn, Michigan — Crane Collision Injures Worker At Steel Plant| Cache Copy | |
| 1/31/05: Louisiana — Crane hits bridge, Atchafalaya closed to river traffic | Cache Copy | 2/17/05: Crane Lifted from Atchafalaya River | Cache Copy | |
  1/28/05: Virginia — Construction Worker Electrocuted| Cache Copy | This is the 4th AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 41 incidents reported to this site in 2004, 60 in 2003, 33 in 2002 and 35 in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. Power line contact is the most frequent cause of crane accidents, yet they are the easiest to prevent. LOOK up and live! 1/29/05 update: News-Tribune story | Cache Copy | |
| 1/28/05: China — Tower crane collapse kills four in southern China | Cache Copy | |
| 1/27/05: Cape Girardeau, Missouri — Hospital project stopped pending engineers' probe | Cache Copy | |
| 1/27/05: Braintree, Massachusetts — Second victim in shipyard collapse found | Cache Copy | Photo Search continues for workers killed in crane collapse | Cache Copy | 1/29/05 update: Crane may have been weakened before falling | Cache Copy | 2/02/05 update: Crane-topple victim remains in coma | Cache Copy | 6/21/05: Shipyard craneway wreckage blown up Cause of accident still being probed | Cache Copy | 7/12/05: OSHA cites contractor in deadly crane collapse | Cache Copy | |
| 1/26/05: Portsmouth, Virginia — Fallen Crane Blocks Traffic Near Pinners Point in Portsmouth Small Photos (2) | Cache Copy | 1/27/05 update w/large photo | Cache Copy | |
 1/22/05: Malta — Beware power lines, crane operators told| Cache Copy | This is the 3rd AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 41 incidents reported to this site in 2004, 60 in 2003, 33 in 2002 and 35 in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. Power line contact is the most frequent cause of crane accidents, yet they are the easiest to prevent. LOOK up and live! |
| 1/22/05: Ann Arbor, Michigan — Crane tips at U-M job site | Cache Copy | One of the outriggers supporting the crane began to collapse, and the boom of the crane smashed into the small enclosure, where a worker was getting some fireproofing materials. The force shattered the temporary structure located next to the building, injuring the worker in the leg. |
| 1/21/05: Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania — Easton man killed in Phillipsburg foundry accident | Cache Copy | |
| 1/20/05: Sugar Creek, Missouri — 1 Worker Electrocuted, 1 Hurt In Accident At Water Plant | Cache Copy | This is the 2nd AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 41 incidents reported to this site in 2004, 60 in 2003, 33 in 2002 and 35 in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. Power line contact is the most frequent cause of crane accidents, yet they are the easiest to prevent. LOOK up and live! |
| 1/20/05: Wausau, Wisconsin — Train Topples Over on Crane | Cache Copy | |
| 1/20/05: United Kingdom — Crane Drama | Cache Copy | A lorry driver had a lucky escape when his vehicle toppled over on the Ropetackle site – and the crane section ended up in the River Adur. Photo |
| 1/18/05: Steubenville, Ohio — Crane Accident At ISG Weirton | Cache Copy | Small Photo |
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1/16/05: Veneta, Oregon — Crane Boom Hits Power Line | Cache Copy | This is the 1st AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 41 incidents reported to this site in 2004, 60 in 2003, 33 in 2002 and 35 in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. Power line contact is the most frequent cause of crane accidents, yet they are the easiest to prevent. LOOK up and live! |
| 1/15/05: Australia — Call for licensing overhaul after crane operator's death | Cache Copy | Worker killed on building site | Cache Copy | 1/20/05: Work resumes after fatal accident | Cache Copy | |
| 1/13/05: Rancho Bernardo, California — Collapsed crane injures one, blocks freeway
| Cache Copy | Toppled Crane Causes 8-Mile Backup On I-15 - Lots of photos | Cache Copy | Reportedly, the crane's operator, Curtis Myers, of Bob's Crane Service in Lakeside, was trapped in the cab for two hours. Myers was taken to an area hospital, but he suffered no broken bones or internal injuries, said his co-worker, Lester Williams. |
| 1/12/05: Punta Gorda, Florida — Construction crane topples onto hotel | Cache Copy | |
| 1/12/05: Valenciennes, France — Crane collapse in N France kills one, injures five | Cache Copy | |
| 1/09/05: Nedelino, Bulgaria —
20-ton Crane Smashes 50-year-old Crane Operator 50-year-old crane operator has died after he was smashed by a 20-ton auto-crane. The incident occurred in the area of a new passenger bridge construction site. |
| 1/07/05: Cork, Ireland — Man killed in accident at docks | Cache Copy | |
| 1/07/05: Mound, Minnesota — Construction Worker Dies in Crane Accident A construction worker from Annandale is dead after a bucket fell and hit him Tuesday afternoon. The incident took place at a construction site on Shoreline Avenue in Mound. John Elsenpeter was married with two young sons. O.S.H.A. is investigating the incident. No one else sustained any injuries. |
| 1/06/05: Baton Rouge, Louisiana — Crane jib folds back | Cache Copy | Two workers with Lafayette Steel Erector attempt to dislodge parts of a buckled crane 15 stories above North Street in downtown Baton Rouge. The crane, being used to help build the new Iberville building, collapsed Wednesday afternoon, the second crane collapse at the site in the past three months. Photo |
| 1/04/05: Montgomery, Indiana — Crane crashes into fuel pumps at gas station | Cache Copy | |
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