In Calgary this morning a construction crane hit a light-rail transit train, with nasty consequences. The train was violently derailed."The mid-morning accident occurred when the boom arm of the mobile crane punched through the front window on the driver's side of the train....
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And now for something completely different........"it's.""Cow escapes from abattoir A cow has escaped from an abattoir, leaping down a manhole and fleeing for a mile through a town's...
The high-rise building in New York that was damaged by a crane that fell on it and killed seven people, is now facing foreclosure and loss of the entire property.In case you have forgotten the story, here is a...
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"Hi this is Lee Late reporting for Nowpublic.com, i am currently at Vancouver Pile Driving on Brooksbank Ave. in North Vancouver. Vancouver Pile Driving doesn't seem to want to comment on the injury that happened...
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A crane collapsed in North Vancouver this afternoon, injuring at least one person. This is a developing story and we welcome your updates, commentary, photos, and video.UPDATE | 15:40 PST - NowPublic member...
An elderly man watching a construction site from his car was killed when a crane fell putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church earlier today."Ambulance officials say a 78-year-old woman who was also in the car was transported to a hospital in good condition.The accident...
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UPDATE: 9:42PM ESTSeven people were injured in the collapse, but it is still not known what caused it." The owner of the crane, Deep South Crane & Rigging, says it's already investigating. It's hoped that...
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With all those cranes towering over New York City, one would like to believe that the people operating them are fully qualified to do so. One would be mistaken. A 2006 lawsuit over job-site corruption exposed several weak links in the safety of construction sites, which...
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A man who was killed by a falling crane's death has been ruled as accidental by a court in the UK."The death of a man when a crane fell on a building site in Liverpool was accidental, an inquest jury has ruled. Construction worker Zbigniew Roman Swirzynski was struck by a...
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CNN is reporting that a crane has collapsed at a stadium in Arlington, Texas that is to be the future home of the Dallas Cowboys. More news as it develops.
" June 5, 2008 -- Hardhats at the site of last week's deadly Upper East Side crane collapse say that piece of machinery wasn't even supposed to be there. New York Crane, owner of the crane that broke apart 200...
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Why, Bruce, why!?! At least it's not a Uwe Boll vehicle:"Bruce Willis is in negotiations to play a death row inmate in "Kane & Lynch," a thriller based on a video game.Willis' character, Kane, and a schizophrenic killer named Lynch, are sprung by Kane's former team so...
Anthony Aucar, a grade 11 student in New York, was asleep this morning when a collapsed crane hit his building. This is his account of the accident:"As you all heard a crane has collapsed near the construction of...
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You know, there seems to be a lot of crane accidents going on in New York, one wonders if in their haste to build the Big Apple, a few are going to start falling out of the trees.I will try and get some photos...
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