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Crane Related Accidents |
| About | Dead Link | About | Cache Copy | Cache Copy N/A | By Company Name March Reports Received: 13 March Deaths: 5 Accident Reports Received for 2002: 34 Deaths to date for 2002: 13 Late reports are included in the above numbers. The above numbers are global. Statistics for prior years
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| Enhanced Reports — March 2002 |
 03/30/02: Fort Lauderdale, Florida — On 03/15/2002 a 46-year-old Sunrise man broke his leg after he fell 15 feet at a construction site at Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale. George Jackson fell when a concrete roof panel being lifted by a crane snapped in two pieces. Reportedly, he was attaching the panel to the top of a seven-story parking garage under construction. "He wasn't crushed and nothing fell on him," said Broward General spokeswoman Sara Howley. "But we're keeping him overnight." Jackson is a subcontractor for James Cummings Construction, which is building the garage. |
 03/26/02: Delray Beach, Florida — I-95 reopens about an hour after all lanes shut near Delray | Cache Copy |This is the 6th (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. |
 03/24/02: New Delhi, India — Crane kills boy at Metro Rail site, officials blame driver | Cache Copy | New Delhi, March 22: A three-year-old boy died yesterday evening when he was hit by a crane at a Metro Rail construction site in Seelampur, northeast Delhi. |
| 03/21/02: Jacksonville, Florida — Crane operator, 45, falls to his death | Cache Copy | |
| 03/20/02: Florida — This report was submitted by a supporter of this site... This happened at the entrance to my development this morning (03/19/02). See Photo #1 of 8 After setting a headwall for underground drainage. The operator backed the crane away from the site in sugarsand with the boom straight up. As the pictures show, the swing lock was not engaged. The outrigger pad hung up on a 30' long submersible pump lying on the ground, on the blind side of the crane (See Photo #4), causing the tires to spin in the soft ground, making the crane lean and without a swinglock, the crane rotated over the side. The company originally called a towing company, who dispatched two C-class wreckers (one, a 70ton unit with a rotating boom) to upright the crane. With the crane's boom being straight up they couldn't hook to it high enough. Luckily we had a 100ton Liebherr staged at my house and righted the crane while the wreckers stabilized the carrier. The operator was bruised up but Okay. |
| 03/19/02: Lewisville, Texas — Construction worker killed: Howe man, 27, dies in accident at site of new city hall | Dead Link | | Cache copy N/A | |
| 03/18/02: Port Melbourne, Australia — Big boom goes bust | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
| 03/15/02: Frederick, Maryland — Worker Injured After Crane Boom Falls | Cache Copy | |
| 03/14/02: New Orleans, Louisianna — Ship Crew Member Sliced In Half | Cache Copy | |
 03/13/02: Gillette, Wyoming — Electrical worker critically injured| Dead Link | Cache Copy, see below | 03/15/02 update: Air hose suspected in near electrocution | Dead Link | | Cache Copy, see below | This is the 5th (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. A semi-conductive rubber air hose may be to blame for an accident that bottom an electrical contractor severely burned Monday afternoon. Jim Cornelius, 48, was doing power-pole maintenance work from the bucket of a crane truck when he somehow made contact with a 14,400-volt line. He suffered severe burns on his face and his right hand and arm, but was able to communicate and walked to the gurney when the ambulance arrived, according the emergency response officials. Cornelius was transferred Monday evening to a burn center at North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley, Colo. The nurse supervisor at the burn center said Cornelius was on a ventilator and in the intensive care unit, but was improving. She said he was scheduled to have the dead skin removed from the burned areas and that "he had quite a bit of rehabilitation to do." Mike Blenkush, the vice president of corporate communications for Powder River Energy Corp., the transmission company who subcontracted the injured worker, said their safety analyst was still working on investigating the accident. No final cause of the accident has been determined, he said. Cornelius was a subcontractor who has worked for Sturgis, S.D.-based Live Line Maintenance for about five or six years, according to Live Line's owner Howard Baldwin. Baldwin said that from what he had heard Cornelius' condition "wasn't near as bad" as it could have been. "I had a lot of confidence in him," Baldwin said. Near the electric lines, Baldwin said they never use electric tools, only air-powered ones. Air pressure operates the tools and is supplied through non-conducting nylon air tubes. When the tube Cornelius was using broke, he apparently bought a regular rubber hose, which has carbon in it, to replace it, Baldwin said. "I think he just bought a regular air line, thinking it was rubber, but that stuff has carbon in it, like it has in tires and I am virtually certain that's what got him in trouble." The carbon in the rubber makes the rubber semi-conductive, Baldwin said. Baldwin said he did not know about the rubber hose until after the accident happened, or he would have made Cornelius exchange it for a nylon hose. When doing line maintenance, Baldwin said special protective gloves are worn that insulate the wearer from the transmission lines. He said even if the wearer touched a line with the gloves on, nothing would happen. By Adam Rankin News-Record Writer |
| 03/12/02: Yokomhama, Japan — River crane topples destroying Yokohama house | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | |
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03/08/02: Belcamp, Maryland — Man dies in crane accident | Dead Link | | Cache Copy N/A | Another is hospitalized in critical condition This is the 5th (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. |
| 03/06/02: Seattle, Washington — Crane cuts power to parts of U-District | Cache Copy | This is the 4th (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. |