CHENNAI: Two fishermen sustained injuries each time a used cranes hit them when they were repairing their boats at Kasimedu fishing harbour on Sunday.

Police suspect that the quality crane operator can have deliberately hit them after the tussle. Realising which the two were injured, the crane operator fled from the scene. Angered with the incident, relatives in the fishermen as well as other fisherfolk rushed towards the spot and demanded action to get taken contrary to the crane operator. Tension prevailed in the area for a while.

Police identified the injured as Ravi, 40, and Sathya, 45, of Kasimedu. Police said earlier the fishermen along with the workers, used by dredging work, has a tiff.

Previously December 3, a 45-year-old diver-cum-assistant used cranes operator died at Kasimedu fishing harbour from a crane overturned, crushing him underneath when he was tying ropes to a large beam which have fallen to the sea.

 A person leapt to safety moments ahead of the 90-tonne quality crane he was driving plunged right into a Bradford canal as a towpath collapsed under its weight.

The Canal & Rivers Trust, that has been doing preparation work to interchange the lock gates, said an investigation ended up launched into why the towpath gave strategies by exactly what has referred to as a ��rare incident��.

The driving force escaped without injury as the crane flipped onto its roof and became submerged within the Leeds & Liverpool Canal following ground crumbled beneath it at Dobson Locks in Apperley Bridge yesterday morning.

Workers in fluorescent jackets may be seen at the site yesterday morning, the place that the crane was on its roof beneath water, which consists of wheels in the air.

Graeme Atkins, 53, of Idle, told how he saw the submerged used cranes, which consists of windscreen wipers still going, as he walked his two dogs along the towpath at around 8.30am.

Bungs ended up being placed across the crane to stop any fuel from the vehicle spreading over the waterway. Fuel was being pumped through the crane yesterday afternoon.

��I couldn��t believe it, it��s not something you see daily,�� he said.

��It��s quite a unusual sight. The employees were just stood there looking at it, I do think we were holding stunned.

��You can view the place that the towpath has crumbled. It��s extremely lucky nobody was hurt.��

Mr Atkins, an ancient Premier League referee, said preparation for the lock replacement have been going down over the last three weeks, with a road being built across land deep down Farm for use of the towpath.

��They’d been pruning trees back and tying overhead cables rebuild safe for access. Then your first day the crane goes onto the web page this takes place,�� he said.

��I don��t discover how they��re going to get the crane out, but I imagine it will require a bit.��

Vince Moran, operations director at the Canal & River Trust, said: ��Above all I’m thankful that the driver or anyone nearby wasn��t injured.

Perhaps the towpath may be fenced off till the quality crane is slowly removed from site, but it is not yet known if this can happen.

The crane is built to lift 90 tonnes, even though it weighs around 64 tonnes.

��When planning and undertaking heritage repairs to some of our waterways we do something to make certain they meet stringent security precautions.

��Naturally we must realize why this kind of patch of towpath gave way all of which will urgently evaluate the circumstances behind this rare incident and apply any lessons learned from using it.��

The Health and Safety Executive continues to be informed regarding the incident.

 NEWBURYPORT �� Captains of economic crafts navigating the Merrimack River really should be looking for dozens on wooden planks which are blown in to the water sometime during yesterday��s powerful nor��easter.

HK & S Construction spokesman Hugo Key said the planks were utilised to create a temporary road for heavy equipment as well as the hauling of huge boulders because they travel in the Plum Island Point staging area, across sand dunes and to the jetty.

The 4-feet-wide-by-12-feet-long planks, called quality crane mats, are owned by HK & S Construction, this company utilizing the Army Corps of Engineers to fix the river��s south jetty.

Newburyport harbormaster Paul Hogg said several of the planks have already washed ashore and Key believes nearly all of them are found in marshy regions of Plum Island. But there is enough concern to alert the few captains still operating boats on this occasion of the year.

Just to save time, the planks were left set up after daily��s work and secured with steel cable.

The storm turned out to be excessive for that steel cable plus the dozens of mats were lost.

��If anybody sees them, we wish to encourage them dealt with. They��re heavy plus they��ll definitely do some damage,�� Hogg said.

Newburyport U.S. Coast Guard P.O. 2nd Class Patrick Castrillo yesterday said the Coast Guard is just not actively in search of them.

Key said his company has replaced the planks understanding that the $3.6 000 0000 project aren’t going to be delayed.

��It won��t impact the progress; we carry on and work,�� Key said.

��It��s usually a constant issue in the season,�� Key said, discussing securing the planks.

However, Key said he’s talking to the Army Corps of Engineers about how precisely to best secure or store the revolutionary planks hence the next powerful storm doesn��t send them floating away.

By the end of March, officials hope, 1,000 feet of the 1,400-foot-long south jetty are going to be fortified. Currently, the jetty has several gaping holes which allow ocean and river currents to rip throughout them. By repairing the jetty, officials would like to slow the erosion of Plum Island, which has been battered until several houses on Annapolis Strategies Newbury have been in danger of falling into the ocean.

 SAFETY inspectors are probing the tragic death of the young lorry driver who had previously been killed within the industrial accident.

The person may be named locally as Paul Forristal, aged as part of his 20s, from Thomastown, Co Kilkenny.

Mr Forristal was killed when he was struck with a used tower cranes at the SmartPly manufacturer in Belview, Slieverue, Co Waterford, at around 3pm yesterday.

Inside a tragic twist of fate, it really is understood that Mr Forristal only received his lorry driving licence within the last couple weeks and was earning a living for his family’s firm, Norevale Transport.

As you move the exact circumstances surrounding Mr Forristal’s death are not known, he was working near a used tower cranes that is loading logs.

A former student at Grennan College, Mr Forristal had spent time in Australia before returning home where he joined the family unit firm.

Gardai from Waterford attended the scene and they also, as well as a team on the Safety and health Authority, are generally performing separate investigations into your death.

When contacted yesterday evening, the company said the accident was “under investigation”.

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 Whatever��m hoping is that the manufacturer of the used tower cranes is French. Because of this, my headline adds up. Sorta. Anyway, my thoughts grapes were squeezed through the ��Zac Crain�� and ��that crane�� thing. Moving forward to.

Margaux Anbouba can be an intern for D Home, D Weddings, and D Moms. Yesterday, she was driving down Turtle Creek when she espied the terrifying sight the thing is that here. A used tower cranes had apparently attempted to hoist a large quanity overweight and was tottering toward the creek with the intersection of Turtle Creek and Cedar Springs. Margaux says she passed the scene twice, once at 6:30 and then again at 9:30, during which time two other cranes had used up positions on both sides on the tipping used tower crane (that makes me make a tippling Crain), presumably to effect a rescue mission.

So um. Just thought you��d enjoy that.

 A CRANE heading for the internet site of an Northumberland wind farm blocked a nearby road after hitting ice.

The automobile will be thought to have attempt to continue its journey when its front end left the trail, creating the rear end to close the carriageway.

The bridge crane was making its method to land where developer Infinis is scheduled to put up six turbines at Wingates. However, it found myself in difficulties at sometime before 8am yesterday when it became stuck for the icy road.

The crane eventually reached its destination.

John Thompson, of the Wingates Not Wind Farms action group, last night claimed the bridge crane had blocked the path for quite a while, forcing residents and school transport heading to Nunnykirk for taking a diversion of three to four miles on icy roads via Netherwitton.

Mr Thompson said the crane should have has a police escort.

He said: ��I own a feeling there are gonna be some unhappy people as everyone moving out from the village should require a major detour on even more untreated roads, as will all the school taxis and mini buses.

The business, Northumberland County Council and Northumbria Police confirmed the developer wouldn’t need an escort for any bridge crane. Infinis as well as the council says the firm has decided to grit access roads to its site where appropriate in the future.

��We have a predicament today certainly where an large vehicle, despite knowing the road conditions, has attemptedto drive down an ice-covered steep incline using a narrow road.

��If another vehicle ended up being arriving the contrary direction the results happens to be fatal.��

Infinis last week claimed the road had only been partially blocked for ten to fifteen minutes.

The developer was on account of start taking delivery of turbine parts to begin yesterday.

It had performed an abnormal load test delivery on Monday, which has a police escort.

Quality delivery ended up being postponed from a couple weeks ago caused by inclemency.

 LAGRANGE, GA (WTVM) -

LaGrange police told News Leader 9 two workers were injured at Sewon America, Inc. in LaGrange, GA. It happened ahead of 10:00 a.m. Friday.

Both workers were harnessed in, but because of their injuries, one was taken by helicopter on the Columbus Medical Center and also the other was flown to Atlanta Infirmary.

Police repeat the workers were in a basket lift doing maintenance work when a bridge crane hit the lift. Officials say this caused the lift to turn finished the workers within the basket.

Sewon may be the largest supplier to Georgia’s Kia Motors Automotive assembly plant in West Point, GA. The company makes stamped chassis, body components and decorative trim pieces.

Officials usually are not releasing the workers’ names presently, but officials say one worker was from Alabama along with the other was from your Atlanta area.

It also supplies Hyundai Corp. manufacturing facility in Alabama. The Korean-based firm opened its facility in 2008.

We’ll have the latest developments beginning on News Leader 9 at 5.

 Four labourers were killed and 25 injured each time a used cranes fell in river Ganga during construction of any railway bridge in Ujhani area in Uttar Pradesh’s Badaun district today.

The injured were admitted to some hospital the spot that the condition of eight was stated to get critical, he explained.

The accident happened in the event the labourers, hailing from Assam, were engaged in work for construction of the rail bridge near Kachhal village, SP (City) Man Singh Chauhan said.

The exact source of the accident was yet to ascertained, the SP said.

 MacGregor’s three-axis motion compensated offshore crane has won Offshore Support Journal’s (OSJ) Innovation of the season award.

The award emerges for just a product, system or service that’s judged to possess made the most important impact on the planning, build and/or operational issues with offshore support vessels.

What is the news was announced at OSJ’s fifth Annual Offshore Support Journal Conference and Awards event in London, UK, on 19 February 2014, plus the award was presented to MacGregor’s Offshore advanced load handling team looking at a crowd that has reached over 500 people in the conference’s gala dinner.

“It’s an honour to take delivery of such a prestigious prize from one of the extremely reputable forums from the international offshore sector,” says Tom Svennevig, Vp, Advanced Load Handling. “It’s also a vital recognition in our capabilities from peers throughout the offshore industry.”

“In 2012 we also received the OSJ Innovation of the Year award; on that occasion it absolutely was for the Chain Wheel Manipulator,” Mr Svennevig continues. “Winning it to get a second time is specially remarkable, specifically in the facial skin of such notable competition on the shortlist of nominees in the category.”

This bridge crane is often a first-of-its-kind, not simply for MacGregor, but for the offshore industry in its entirety. MacGregor was approached by Siem Offshore to develop a progressive type of crane because of its newbuild infield support vessel Siem Moxie. The crane are going to be shipped to Siem Offshore in March 2014.

“MacGregor’s standard active heave-compensation technology supplied though a bridge crane’s winch compensates for the vessel’s vertical movement, assuring accurate load handling. However, when transferring equipment to # 1 of offshore windmill foundations, which might be about 20m above water and are only 4m2, even more precision is needed,” explained Baard Alsaker, MacGregor R&D Director, Advanced Load Handling.

The vessel will operate from the offshore electrical power markets, performance installations, repairs, maintenance and general service duties. One specific part of Siem Moxie is to transfer containers of tools and equipment to the top of offshore windmill foundations.

“As a result, our engineers developed new technology that compensates for vessel movements inside horizontal plane (pitch and roll) plus the vertical plane.

“Compensating to the horizontal motions makes sure that the bridge crane’s pedestal remains vertical pertaining to the seabed, so that it will almost always be parallel towards windmill structure. Thanks to this three-axis compensation, the crane are capable of doing extremely accurate load positioning operations. The crane can be employed for just a number of other purposes, including ship-to-ship operations. It’s also specified for certification for personnel lifts, further enhancing its flexibility.”

He notes: “We see how the emerging offshore wind sector is constantly on the set new requirements for offshore cranes and we are constantly searching for ways of employing our expertise from the growth and development of new solutions for our customers.”

 OAKLAND — Staff suffered fatal injuries Wednesday morning on the Port of Oakland after he was crushed while inspecting a bridge crane, authorities said.

The man’s name had not been released.

The apparent industrial accident happened around 9:30 a.m. at Berth 37, part of the Ben E. Nutter Terminal, which is operated by Evergreen Marine Corp. of Taiwan. The worker was delivered to Summitt Infirmary where he later died.

Police said the person was with another worker inspecting a bridge crane when he was crushed by way of a moving part of the crane. Additional man has not been injured.

The worker was crushed inside the chest and a break down head injury, in accordance with Peter Melton of Cal OSHA.

According to Robert Bernardo, the Port of Oakland’s Manager of Media & Advertising, the Ben E. Nutter Terminal was close up and workers sent home while local agencies and Cal OSHA conducted their investigation. The main harbour, which handled about $41 billion valuation on cargo in 2011, may be the fifth-busiest seaport in the states.

The worker is really a bridge crane mechanic, associated with the International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, based on port spokeswoman Marilyn Sandifur.

Return for updates.

Staff writer Erin Ivie contributed to the present report. Contact Daniel M. Jimenez at 925-945-4782.