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| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | By Company Name December Reports Received: 12 December Deaths: 7 Accident Reports Received for 2002: 171 Deaths to date for 2002: 96 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — December 2002
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| 12/30/02: UK — Crane makes house call | Cache Copy | Photo |
| 12/23/02: Gary, Indiana — Central Crane accident. Photo |
 12/19/02: Staten Island, New York — Operator Dies In Crane Accident| Registration site | | Cache Copy | |
| 12/18/02: Southeast Baltimore, Maryland — Truck driver is killed in accident at port terminal | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 12/12/02: Sacramento, California — Construction worker killed in crane accident | Cache Copy | Woodland resident Mark Pease, the father of one, was a rigging foreman with Bragg Crane Service. He was standing next to a 35-foot prefabricated, concrete wall that was being moved into place by the 300-ton-capacity crane. |
| 12/12/02: Clearwater, Florida — Crane truck topples over at library building site | Cache Copy | |
  12/11/02: Perth, Australia — Man dies after crane hits power lines
| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 33rd. AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
| 12/11/02: Rochester, New York — Crane Accident Delays Bridge Construction | Cache Copy | A construction accident delayed work on the new O'Rorke Bridge on Tuesday afternoon. A Monroe County spokesperson said a crane used to move construction materials was being repositioned when it began to tip. No one was hurt as a result of the incident and the bridge was not damaged. County engineers are investigating the accident. |
| 12/10/02: Petersburg, Virginia — Laborer crushed in construction accident | Cache Copy | A 23-year-old male construction worker was killed yesterday when he was crushed by a 2,000-pound concrete slab while working to demolish the old Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge. |
| 12/06/02: Breda, Iowa — Man Killed In Iowa Construction Accident | Dead Link | | Cache Copy | Bruce Owen Hicks, 50, of Sioux Falls, died Thursday when a boom of a crane collapsed and fell on him. Authorities said he was working on a bridge repair project southwest of Breda, which is about 10 miles northwest of Carroll in western Iowa. |
| 12/06/02: Lourdes, France — 13 hurt as crane falls into homes | Cache Copy | |
| 12/04/02: Yakima, Washington — Overhead wires electrocute worker | Cache Copy | A man laying sewer pipe in a new home development was electrocuted when a backhoe, operated by his father, hit a powerline overhead, the Yakima County sheriff's office said. William Anderson, 26, was pronounced dead Monday at Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. Chuck Anderson, 63, the owner of Central Concrete and Utilities, was operating the backhoe while his son stabilized a section of pipe that was tethered by cable to the backhoe bucket, the sheriff's office said. The boom on the backhoe hit a powerline above it and the electrical current was transmitted to the younger Anderson. The state Department of Labor and Industries is investigating. This is the 32nd. AVOIDABLE incident reported to this site this year in which power lines were involved. There were 35 reported to this site in 2001. Again, all were avoidable. Just don't work cranes near energized power lines. |
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