Construction Crane Collapse

The stretch is the same on which a gantry crane collapsed in August last year, killing several workers involved in the construction of the expressway.

An under construction flyover in Maharashtra broke into two and collapsed Monday afternoon, damaging a crane machine and sending up a huge dust cloud, showed a video.

A "big spark" in electricity pole providing power to the girder launcher preceded its collapse during construction of a viaduct for Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Thane district a day ago, in which at least 20 persons were killed, said cops.

Twenty workers were crushed to death late last night when a crane collapsed on them at a construction site in Thane's Shahapur in Maharashtra, police said.

The top portion of a construction crane caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan on Wednesday, injuring at least two people and snarling traffic during the morning rush hour, authorities and local media said.

A crane operator died on Wednesday when a portion of a flyover under construction collapsed near National Highway-48 in southwest Delhi, police said.

Cranes at three South Florida high rises under construction collapsed in the face of heavy winds as Hurricane Irma ripped through the area on Sunday, days after authorities warned about dangers to cranes from the approaching storm.

A massive construction crane collapsed in downtown Manhattan on Friday morning, killing at least one person and seriously injuring two others, a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department said.

Saudi Arabia suspended construction giant Saudi Binladin Group from new contracts on Tuesday following Friday's collapse of a crane in Mecca's Grand Mosque which killed 107 people.

Witnesses on Saturday described the collapse of a massive construction crane during a vicious thunderstorm a day earlier, an accident that killed 107 people at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of Islam's holiest sites.

The collapse of a construction crane that killed 107 people at Mecca's Grand Mosque was "an act of God" and not due to a technical fault, an engineer for the developer said today.

With the popping of cables and the snapping of metal, a crane collapsed onto a building under construction near New York's East River waterfront on Wednesday, injuring seven people, three of whom needed to be extricated from underneath the fallen machinery.

A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds on Monday and dangled precariously, prompting plans for engineers and inspectors to climb to the top to examine it as a huge storm bore down on the city.

The stretch is the same on which a gantry crane collapsed in August last year, killing several workers involved in the construction of the expressway.

An under construction flyover in Maharashtra broke into two and collapsed Monday afternoon, damaging a crane machine and sending up a huge dust cloud, showed a video.

A "big spark" in electricity pole providing power to the girder launcher preceded its collapse during construction of a viaduct for Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Thane district a day ago, in which at least 20 persons were killed, said cops.

Twenty workers were crushed to death late last night when a crane collapsed on them at a construction site in Thane's Shahapur in Maharashtra, police said.

The top portion of a construction crane caught fire and collapsed in Manhattan on Wednesday, injuring at least two people and snarling traffic during the morning rush hour, authorities and local media said.

A crane operator died on Wednesday when a portion of a flyover under construction collapsed near National Highway-48 in southwest Delhi, police said.

Cranes at three South Florida high rises under construction collapsed in the face of heavy winds as Hurricane Irma ripped through the area on Sunday, days after authorities warned about dangers to cranes from the approaching storm.

A massive construction crane collapsed in downtown Manhattan on Friday morning, killing at least one person and seriously injuring two others, a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department said.

Saudi Arabia suspended construction giant Saudi Binladin Group from new contracts on Tuesday following Friday's collapse of a crane in Mecca's Grand Mosque which killed 107 people.

Witnesses on Saturday described the collapse of a massive construction crane during a vicious thunderstorm a day earlier, an accident that killed 107 people at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of Islam's holiest sites.

The collapse of a construction crane that killed 107 people at Mecca's Grand Mosque was "an act of God" and not due to a technical fault, an engineer for the developer said today.

With the popping of cables and the snapping of metal, a crane collapsed onto a building under construction near New York's East River waterfront on Wednesday, injuring seven people, three of whom needed to be extricated from underneath the fallen machinery.

A construction crane atop a $1.5 billion luxury high-rise in midtown Manhattan collapsed in high winds on Monday and dangled precariously, prompting plans for engineers and inspectors to climb to the top to examine it as a huge storm bore down on the city.