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A crane involved in works at a construction site in Sengkang toppled over and crushed a white van. The crane operator was later arrested. Read more.

Construction crew was working on an apartment building development when a crane platform collapsed, sending one worker falling to their death while the crane crashed into the bridge below

Mark Cerezin was driving his Tesla on the Southeast Third Avenue bridge over the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale about 4:30 p.m. Thursday when he felt as if “something was coming.” He slammed on his brakes, and “this big, huge, massive piece of blue steel” fell onto his car, “bounced” off the bridge, into the air and landed on another car to his right, he told the South Florida Sun ...

A machine deck fire sent a construction crane boom plunging 45 stories to the Midtown Manhattan streets, with terrified pedestrians running for their lives to the terrifying sound of the tumbling equipment on Wednesday morning. The flames caused severe damage to the 180-foot-long boom once the fire ignited high above 550 10th Ave. at 7:25 a.m., and the arm collapsed with a 16-ton load of ...

TIANJIN, March 29 (Xinhua) -- A Siberian white crane was spotted recently in the Qilihai wetland in the Ninghe District of north China Tianjin Municipality, ref

NANJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- The world largest all-terrain crane completed its first lifting at an onshore wind power project in east China Shandong Province on

This morning. joining us now, a resident of the building hit by the crane, sammy sandquist and former crane accident investigator and a former crane operator himself thomas barth who joins us by phone. thank you very much for being here. as i understand it, sammy, you were walking up to the building as it happened. tell us what happened at the moment. >> when we got there we could see that there were fire trucks and ambulances that had started to arrive on the scene. we had walked up to what was...

Community or accuses it of leaks or accuses it of doing things that its not doing, that obviously impacts on the moral of that, of that institution. the last thing they need is to have a president who questions their patriotism to this country and to him. >> and amid questions over the president and his staffs tie to russia, the "the new york times" reports that some of mr. trumps associates are working behind the scenes on a way to lift sanctions against russia, coming in the form of a peace pl...

Almost three decades at the bank beginning as a trainee and working his way up the ranks. germany and france were both affected by public sector strikes this week in germany several hundred flights were canceled as airport staff walked off the job. the strike forced tens of thousands of passengers to make alternative plans some local transport services were also affected and in neighboring france rail strikes continued employees of the indebted state rail operator s.n.c.f. are demanding an end t...