Check this accident site out!

[Arc Burn]

Well,i'm trying to put a hyperlink in but it won't let me ,Anyways-www.craneaccidents.com
Click on the photo gallery,UNBELIEVABLE pictures,there's even one for you backhoe boys complete with the operator laying underneath it It's worth checking out!
BTW-If someone can fix the hyperlink please feel free

 

[digger242j]

I've checked that site out. There are some really scary pics in the free galleries. I wonder what's in the paid section? And if I remember correctly, the guy pinned under the backhoe is the owner of the website.

Does it seem to anyone else that many "saftey professionals" have a serious injury somewhere in their background? That's not a criticism--they certainly have credibility that's backed up by being able to present themselves as an example of what can happen when you don't make a priority of saftey. It's kind of a shame that it takes a serious injury for so many of us to get the point...

 

[Steve Frazier]

Fixed the link. We've still got some bugs here to work out, I see there is no tag showing I edited your post either.

For now you must make the links manually using the brackets and vB codes. I'm working on getting the boxes to work.

 

[Taylortractornu]

WHen I was 21 I almost had a picture in there. My boss wanted me to start on a friction crane, i got a good start out in a field but my friend was teaching me how to catch the ball and special rigging. He skimmed over walking it because I been doing it with out incidedent. My friend mentioned them jumping out of gear occasionally but he told me he hadnt seen that crane do it yet. I was walking it down a ramp when the engine idled up and the tracks tightend and I took off like the road runner in a 5299 American and 120 feet of boom. I het a chink of shot rock and got stopped. The next time I was loading the crane with 70 feet of boom onto a Barge to lay pipe in the Tennessee River and my laborers untied the the morring before I could get all the way on the deck. The barge tried to slide out from under me. I dogged it off ran to the back and out on the catwalk and got the 300 Komatsu to hold the bagre tille we could tie it off.