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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | By Company Name February Reports Received: 10 February Deaths: 6 Accident Reports Received for 2002: 21 Deaths to date for 2002: 8 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — February 2002 |
02/28/02: Carnesville, Georgia — Construction worker killed when crane breaks on I-85| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 02/24/02: Texas City, Texas — Doyle, here are some pictures of a 4000 Manitowoc turned over at future site of Coker at Valero's, Texas City, site. The crane is owned by Piling Inc. The crane had a load, leads 17.000 pounds, hammer 22.000#, and piling 33.000 pounds. Gross capacity, 94.000 at 30ft. Pickup point of pile placement at 90 ft. Dragging to crane caused the crane to get light. The operator continued to run the crane. When he realized he was fixing to turn over he cut the brake loose and jumped away from crane and crane turned over. He was unharmed, just shaken. The operator has 37 years experience. Another case of runnning by the seat of your pants that has devasting effects. Date of accident 2/14/02 Photos (4) |
02/22/02: Lynnwood, Washington — Crane Operator dies when cable hits power line| Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | This is the 3rd (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. |
| 02/22/02: Burlington, North Carolina — One person dead in crane accident on I-85 | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Chapel Hill lawyer dies after crane drops concrete form onto his car | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Steven Edward Whitesell, a Chapel Hill lawyer, was killed when a crane tipped over and dropped a concrete pipe weighing thousands of pounds onto his car on Interstate 40/85. Employees of Coastal Caisson Corp. were doing road work from the median when their drilling rig tipped on its side and caused a caisson — or pipe-like form used to pour concrete — to fall on top of the car. 02/25/02 update: State officials probe Alamance County crane accident | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 03/30/02 update: Contractor fired This reference has a picture of the scene showing the toppled crane. | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A |  04/04/02: Construction company fined in death of motoristCoastal Caissons Corp. of Clearwater, Florida, has been fined $2,800 in the accident. The main contractor on the overpass project, the Thompson-Arthur Division of APAC-Carolina Inc., has since fired Coastal Caissons. | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | 04/04/02: A similar accident happened near Denver, Colorado injuring several people. |
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02/21/02: St. Louis, Missouri — Traffic Mishap Leads to Death of Construction Crane Operator | Dead Link | |Cache Copy N/A | |
02/13/02: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — Pittsburgh Building Collapse Kills 1 injures others| Dead Link | | Cache Copy | Corsi was killed when a large steel support structure consisting of several beams already joined fell from a crane that was moving it, said Steve Leeper, executive director of the Sports & Exhibition Authority, the agency that owns the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. See Photo Journal 02/14/02 update: Worker's harness attached to truss that fell | Cache Copy | 02/14/02 update: OSHA begins collapse probe | Cache Copy | |
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02/13/02: West Belfast — West Belfast crane drama | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Fire officers have spent nearly three hours rescuing a crane driver after his machine collapsed on the Stewartstown Road in West Belfast. |
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02/09/02: Mount Vernon, Iowa — Construction Accident Kills Man | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | The death of a 39-year-old concrete carpenter Friday at a Cornell College construction site has devastated the tight-knit crew that is building the new campus theater, the company's owner said. |
| 02/07/02: Omaha, Nebraska — A crane operated by Moen Steel Erection (owned by Heartland Crane Services, owned by the same people as Moen) overturned in downtown Omaha yesterday. No one was injured. We are searching for more information. |
| 02/01/02: Washington, DC — Falling Beam Just Misses Driver | Cache Copy N/A | Photo |
| 02/01/02: Rumney, New Hampshire — Cable installer tossed from bucket truck | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |