Archive for the ‘Lifting Machine’ Category

Another crane collapse in U.S. (Miami)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Take a look at this short report on a crane collapse that killed two persons in Miami, Florida… according to the report it is similar to the collapse in New York, so I presume it is another tower crane.

Click here for recent posts on crane collapses.

Tower Crane Collapse in New York (16 March 2008)

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Looks like this is not a very good year for tower cranes. Another tower crane collapsed in New York killing four and making significant damage to surrounding buildings. Click here for more detail.

This blog reported a tower crane collapse in Singapore recently. Click here for posts on tower cranes.

Tower crane safety in Singapore

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

For those that are interested in tower crane safety in Singapore here are some important resources:

For those that need some photos to understand how tower crane works here‘s a nice short website (primarily on hammerhead or saddle jib cranes)

Possible causes of tower crane collapse as reported in ST

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Straits Times interviewed an engineer and they came up with 4 possible causes of toper crane crashes

  1. Corrosion of anchor bolts
  2. Low quality or wrong steel anchor bolts
  3. No “tie-backs” for taller cranes
  4. Overloading

Item 4 is of course irrelevant to this case as the crane was not carrying any load at the time of the accident.

Some tower crane collapses in recent years

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Here’s a listing of some other tower crane collapses in recent years:

In addition, www.craneoperator.com has tons of photos on crane mishaps.