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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | Reports | By Company Name September Reports Received: 27 September Deaths: 16 Accident Reports Received for 2003: 216 Deaths to date for 2003: 117 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — September 2003
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  09/29/03: Lubbuck, Texas — Lubbock Construction Worker Electrocuted| Dead Link | | Cache Copy | 8/09/05:Lubbock Family Reaches Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit Cache Copy | This is the 46th AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 09/28/03: Greenville, South Carolina — Industrial accident kills Asheville man | Cache Copy | A 38-year-old Asheville man, Carl Keith Hall, died Friday after a tire — weighing as much as 2,000 pounds — that he was moving fell on him at a Taylors industrial site, a deputy coroner said. Hall, who was employed by TCI Tire Center in Duncan, was moving the tire with a boom truck at Hanson Materials of 402 Keller Road, Ellis said. “It appears the tire came loose from the piece of equipment it was being lifted with,” he said. Hall was pinned between the tire and the piece of equipment, he said. |
| 09/27/03: Richmond, Virginia — A couple hoping to get their power back is now dealing with another
problem — an overturned crane in their front yard. | Cache Copy | |
| 09/26/03: Bugibba, Malta — Crane plunges killing worker at Bugibba. | Cache Copy | Lots of photos. 10/01/03 Update: Engineers worried about tower crane incidents | Cache Copy | |
| 09/26/03: Bangkok, Thailand — Crane topples over | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | A 30-metre crane narrowly missed crushing a group of young children in a nursery yesterday when it toppled over in Bangkok's Chom Thong district, police said. No one was injured in the incident. |
| 09/23/03: Japan — Power lines stop falling crane from crushing buildings below | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | A crane that fell during construction work at a railway station was caught by an electric power line below and barely avoided crushing buildings Monday, police said Tuesday. This is the 45th AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 09/23/03: Aukland, New Zealand — Man Killed by Falling Crane | Cache Copy | Police say there may have been a technical problem with a crane that toppled over and crushed a man on Auckland's North Shore. A 61 year old Downer Construction worker was killed Tuesday morning when a crane boom fell on him at the Mairangi Bay site where a UV plant to treat water was being built. Video and other interesting accident related material. Charges after crane death | Cache Copy | |
| 09/20/03: Australia — Tas crane accident kills man | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | 1/20/06: Coroner urges crane recall | Cache Copy | |
| 09/19/03: Traer, Iowa — Worker Dies In Construction Accident | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 44th AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes, lifts, and other equipment near energized power lines. Construction accident victim was Waterloo man We've recorded 111 deaths for 2003 of which 44, (about 40 percent) were power line related. I often wonder if the powers that be ever take a serious look at those numbers. O.S.H.A., and others, are currently in a big pow-wow about changing some existing crane related regulations. I wonder why they don't jump on what is killing the highest number of people. Is it because it makes sense or is the most logical place to start? --D. Peeks |
 09/18/03: Salt Lake City, Utah — 'Lucky' crane operator survives jolt| Cache Copy | This is the 43rd AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 09/15/03: North Sea — Crane problem sends pipe crashing to deck of North Sea platform | Cache Copy | |
 09/12/03: Jacksonville, Florida — Worker In Critical Condition After Crane Touches Power Line| Cache Copy | A crew was dropping off a concrete manhole along Lone Star Road next to the Tree Hill Nature Park around 8:30 a.m. when the crane lowering it hit power lines. This is the 42nd AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 09/05/03: Knoxville, Tennessee — Operator Avoids Hitting Children's Hospital when Crane Tips | Cache Copy | Investigators are trying to determine what caused the ground under the crane to shift. |
| 09/05/03: Canada — Falling crane sends workers scrambling More cars crushed Jason Rankin narrowly escaped being crushed Thursday afternoon when the extended boom on a portable crane toppled over near the spot where he had been standing | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| Jacksonville, Florida — 09/05/03: Crane collapsed into several parked cars | Cache Copy | The crane was stretched out on the ground with it's wheels 50 feet into the air. A car was flattened by the fall. Photos/Video Obviously the outriggers were not deployed.A similar incident happened in August in Fort Lauderdale. |
 09/05/03: Atlantic City, New Jersey — Crane mishap to blame for power outage in midtown A.C.| Dead Link | | Cache Copy | This is the 41st AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| Nashville, Tennessee — 09/04/03: Crane operator killed | Cache Copy | One man was killed Thursday when a crane tipped over at an industrial site in West Nashville. Metro police have identified the victim as 51-year-old Arthur Ricks of Nolensville. At 6:30 am the 25-ton crane that Ricks was operating was moving a chute from the end of a dock when the crane slip and overturned. Ricks was freed from the cab and was rushed to St. Thomas Hospital, where he later died. |
| 09/04/03: Cooperstown, New York — Runaway crane hits car, misses three homes | Cache Copy | Jeffrey Rogers' Wednesday morning started like most others, but it went downhill fast from there. Rogers was driving a large mobile crane to Cooperstown on his way to the site of the new Meadows complex south of the village when the vehicle lost its brakes coming down the Glen Avenue/Route 28 hill toward the T-intersection at Chestnut Street. |
| 09/04/03: Crane operator killed in Staten Island crane collapse | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | A worker died at a Staten Island dry dock Wednesday afternoon when a 60-foot crane collapsed onto him, according to the fire department. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was working at the Caddell dry dock on Richmond Terrace when the crane toppled onto him, said Firefighter Jack Thompson, a fire department spokesman. The cause of the collapse was under investigation, Thompson said. Story by Daily News | Cache Copy | |
| 09/04/03: Cheyenne, Wyoming — Crews handle accident involving nuclear missile rocket propellant | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | It is reported that a specialized crane used to move and disassemble the pieces had a malfunction (mechanical failure) in the hoist's hydraulic system as it was lifting the missile section out of the silo. |
| 09/03/03: Okhla, India — Driver killed while lifting container | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | The incident occurred on late Tuesday night when Simran Ghosh (30) was mechanically lifting containers onto a trailer and the grip of the crane gave way, leading to one of the containers falling on the cabin where he was sitting. |
| 09/03/03: Saint Mary Parish, Louisiana — Worker Crushed While Working on Louisa Bridge | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | According to witnesses, Aaron Calais, 22, was standing in a crane basket when half of the rotating bridge crashed down on him. |
| 09/02/03: Montgomery County, Illinois — Man Dies While Hanging Flag | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 09/02/03: Northern China — Five electrocuted in crane accident | Cache Copy | Five workers died when they were electrocuted as the arm of their mechanical crane grazed high-tension wires in Shijiazhuang in northern China, state media reported today. This is the 40th AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001 and 33 in 2002. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 09/02/03: UK — Crane Crash | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | A 48-ton crane toppled over onto a roundabout on the A631 west of Gainsborough. Nobody was believed to be injured in the incident, which took place at around 7.15am today near Beckingham. Stunned motorists, who were passing as the Ainscough rental crane fell over, heard a load crash and many slowed to see what had happened. |
| 09/01/03: Auroa, Illinois — City employee on mend after crane accident | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | Jim King was using a crane to help erect a light pole near McCoy and Venuti drives, near Westfield Shoppingtown Fox Valley, when the two pins holding the two parts of the counterweight in place broke, according to city officials. A portion of the weight fell from about 50 feet, striking Jim's head. |
| 09/01/03: San Francisco, California — A construction worker at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco survived a 60-foot fall Wednesday. Witnesses say the worker was on top of a crane when it tipped over during repairs on a parking facility at Mason and Jefferson. Rescuers had to pull the victim out of the wreckage, but his injuries were reportedly not life threatening. Cal-OSHA is investigating the cause of the accident. |