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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Links | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | Reports | By Company Name | June Reports Received: 16 June Deaths: 6 Accident Reports Received for 2001: 73 Deaths to date for 2001: 22 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — June 2001 |
| 06/29/01: Whitewater, Wisconsin — Crane accident barges in on Whitewater celebration plans | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 06/30/01 update: Fallen crane removed from Cravath lake | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
 06/29/01: Montreal, Canada — Bridge worker lost in fall| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
 06/28/01: Seattle, Washington — Tree being moved falls, kills crane operator; 2 hurt| Cache Copy | A construction worker was killed yesterday when an 80-foot elm tree he was transplanting at Children's Hospital fell and crushed the cab of his crane. Associated References: Sellen Construction Sunnen Crane |
| 06/26/01: Temecula, California — Fund set up for Guenther Gruber family | Dead Link | | New Link | | Cache Copy | Mr. Gruber was a well known and highly respected crane technician from Texas. Guenther George Gruber, 45, of Las Vegas died while working on a construction elevator at the new Pechanga Hotel and Golf Resort, authorities said. |
06/25/01: Providence, Rhode Island — Crane operator injured after equipment strikes power line| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Reportedly, Portsmouth resident Michael Ariel, of BT Equipment in Smithfield, was using the crane to move concrete barriers on Route 10 south for the freight rail improvement project of the Cranston Street Viaduct. BT Equipment Co. Lydia Ann Road Smithfield, Rhode Island Zip code: 02917 Phone: 401-232-1995 This is the 13th incident reported to this site this year and the third one this month in which power lines were involved. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
06/22/01: Atlanta, Georgia — Man who commandeers large construction crane in Atlanta apparently hangs himself after daylong standoff News Flash Index Page |
| 06/19/01: Cockeysville, Maryland — Crane operator crushed to death at warehouse | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | A 28-year-old man, Aitor Dorronsoro of Spain, was crushed to death by a stack of steel rail-car wheels at a warehouse in Cockeysville yesterday morning, according to Baltimore County police. |
| 06/15/01: Cape Canaveral, Florida — Station arm hits outpost during test Two American astronauts performed a major test of a balky $600 million robot arm at the International Space Station on Thursday, inadvertently banging the outpost with the high-tech construction crane in the process. Alpha crew does 'bang up' job flexing robot arm | Cache Copy | From MSNBC: Station's crew copes with glitches | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Editor comment: I wondered at the time they launched this space crane if we would ever post an accident for it on this site. Well, this is it, it happened. Hey folks, that's our crane up there in space, built with our tax dollars. |
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06/11/01: Los Angeles, California — Workers in critical condition after concrete pump truck hits power lines | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 12th incident reported to this site this year and the second one this month in which power lines were involved. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes or pump trucks near energized power lines. 06/12/01 Update: LA Times Report | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 06/09/01: — Syracuse, New York — Crane Falls On Theater | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | No injuries were reported. Post-Standard (14 day archive) | Registration req'd | November 1999: a similar incident, in which a manlift fell through a sidewalk.See photo |
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06/07/01: Tacoma, Washington — Construction crane accident causes power outage in downtown area
| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 11th incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 06/06/01: Napa, California — It is reported that Foundation Pile lost a Link-Belt LS338 late last week. Apparently they were driving pile with the crane on a railroad trestle and pulled the machine over. Reportedly, it sat in salt water for 5 days until they could re-engineer the trestle to support a 250 ton capacity truck crane to fish it out. They dug down 30' into the mud and have yet to find the counterweights! Nobody was hurt, I'm told the operator bailed before the machine went over. No firm reason as to the cause yet. A prior report came in from a supporter who, while driving on highway 37 near Napa, California on 5/26/01 witnessed a Link-Belt HC268 owned by Bigge Crane picking up a Link-Belt crawler crane out of the water near the above mentioned railroad trestle. |
| 06/06/01: Salem, Oregon — Crane falls, clipping a South Salem church | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Reference is made in the article to: Coalman Construction Company of Salem and Continental Cranes |
| 06/20/01 update: Crane tipped over while attempting to set a 48,700 lb concrete wall panel. The incident happened on June 5th. The lattice boom failed in the center and folded to the left side. It narrowly missed two men who had no way of escape, with the boom coming down on one side of them, the cables and rigging in another direction. A 28,000 lb panel which was braced and sitting on its foundation was knocked loose by the original wall panel and began to fall in on the men. As the photos show, the crane boom folded at the perfect angle to catch the falling panel (32ft tall), and break it in half, before pushing it out of the way. The cause of the accident is still unknown. The crane is actually owned by Continental Crane of Albany, Oregon, but used to be called Coast Crane. The crane is an old model 100 ton Link-Belt. Photo #1 Photo #2 Photo #3 Photo #4 |
| 06/03/01: San Onofre, California — Crane accident at San Onofre nuclear power plant | Dead link | | Cache Copy N/A | It is reported that a 40-ton mobile crane was damaged Wednesday after it fell 40 feet to the ground. Reportedly, the mobile crane fell when one of several slings attaching it to a larger Gantry crane was loosened. 9/4/01 update: Safety Lessons Learned Date: July 26, 2001 Incident Description: Failure of KEVLAR slings while lowering a small mobile crane from the Turbine Deck to the crane bay. Nature of Injury and Part of Body: There were no injuries in the incident, but as you can see in the photos the mobile crane was totaled. Conditions - Time of Day, Weather, Lighting: This incident happened inside a Turbine building. Neither the weather nor the lighting had any affect on the incident. The time of day was approximately 10:30 P.M. Causal Factors: The employees were using slings that were rated 4-5 times the working load and did not notice any damage to the slings. These slings are not like wire rope slings were you can visibly see the damage nor can you see the red thread that is sewn into the nylon slings. Corrective Actions: All KEVLAR slings need to be inspected by a person that has the rigging expertise to know when these slings should be taken out of service. Comments: This Lesson Learned is being distributed to heighten awareness because several contractors that are using KEVLAR slings while lifting equipment. Links to a few photos of the incident are below. There are some KEVLAR slings that do not have what is called a tattle-tail string that shows the owner when the slings have been over loaded. Please check to see if there are any Kevlar slings in use and notice there is really no way to visibly see if the integrity of the sling is still good if the cover is not damaged, or if their Kevlar slings have tattle-tail strings for overload indication. The following photo's are from the incident that totally destroyed the mobile crane. 09/23/01 update: A loophole you can drop a crane through | Cache Copy | Photo #1 Photo #2 Photo #3 |
| 06/01/01: Dublin, Ireland — Power lines jam up the M50 motorway | Subscription site | A few days ago a similar incident happened in Delray, Florida. Editor comment: It makes one wonder if some people ever use their brain. This is the 10th incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. Again, all were avoidable. |
| 06/01/01: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina — Worker missing after falling from crane | Dead link | | Cache Copy N/A | (AP) — Authorities planned to continue to search the waters of the Wando River for a subcontractor who fell on Wednesday (5/30/01) from a crane at the Wando Port Terminal here. Juan Sanchez, 28, of Moncks Corner, fell from a boom into the river Wednesday. Update 06/01/01: Body of Juan Sanchez found Thursday afternoon. | Dead link | | Cache Copy N/A | |