No one seems to track tower crane accidents world wide. Annually we see 30 plus major accidents world wide with around 50 deaths. It's a dangerous game and we all need to be vigilant in the construction world.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Nov 14th, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
November 10th, 1978
Charolette North Carolina
A 390 to 630 Liebherr tower crane dropped a "steel rod" (I hear rebar) from a beam. It went through a school bus. Fortunately no kids were in the bus at the time and the steel rod missed the bus driver. Often we are asked to hoist over the street. You'll see jobs with laydown yards accross the street from the jobsite because the site itself is being 100 percent used. The practice of hoisting over the public has to be stopped. In most cases this would have nothing to do with the crane itself but rather the rigging and those practices.
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