Information on incidents with lifting cranes in 2023
02/21/2023 while performing work on the installation of an excavator boom using a КС-35715-1 truck crane, a mechanic from one of Zhlobin's enterprises was injured. When attempting to install the boom base into the lugs of the excavator's turntable, the boom spontaneously shifted. The metal structure of the shifted boom struck the fingers of the left hand and the left leg of the injured person, who was on the excavator's undercarriage, causing him to fall to the ground.
The cause of the incident was a violation of technological instructions during repair work.
The cause of the incident was a violation of technological instructions for loading and unloading operations.
05/03/2023 while lifting a bundle of round steel billets using an overhead crane, an unintentional shift of the load occurred, which resulted in the leg of a stacker being trapped between the stacked bundles of billets and the lifted load at one of Zhlobin's enterprises.
On 05/24/2023, a roofer from one of Gomel's enterprises injured his leg while performing loading and unloading operations using a КС-45729А truck crane. The injury occurred as a result of the spontaneous slipping of a metal fence sheet, hooked to a single-leg wire rope sling, while loading it into the body of a truck.
The cause of the incident was a violation of technological instructions for loading and unloading operations.
05/25/2023 during the movement of a cone (bucket) with concrete for pouring building foundation columns, the boom guy rope of a tower crane broke, followed by its fall (Grodno).
The technical cause of the boom falling was the incorrect reserve of the boom guy rope and the hoisting rope, which led to the ropes overlapping. As a result of prolonged friction between the ropes, the boom guy rope was abraded and broke.
05/25/2023 during the replacement of a section of the heating main, a partial overturning of a mobile crane KS 55727-7 occurred (Baran, Orsha district).
The cause of the loss of stability (overturning) of the lifting crane with subsequent damage to the designed metal structures of the boom was the collapse of the road surface and the destruction of the reinforced concrete covering of the heat chamber under the front left outrigger of the lifting crane. There was a violation of industrial safety requirements when installing the crane.
07/02/2023 during the lowering of a "Manitou" telescopic construction handler by two automobile cranes simultaneously into an aeration tank section (a 5-meter deep reservoir for wastewater treatment where purification occurs) of the treatment facilities, the cranes overturned (Orsha).
The causes of the incident were the performance of work in violation of industrial safety requirements, as well as the lack of coordination between the crane operators.
07/11/2023 during loading and unloading operations, a boom self-propelled crane KS-55727-7 overturned (Lubnya village, Mozyr district).
The cause of the overturning was the destruction of the welded joint of the transverse plate of the hydraulic cylinder attachment for the right front outrigger. The welded joint had an unacceptable defect – lack of fusion (absence of connection between the weld metal
and the base metal or between individual weld beads).
07/28/2023 during work on insulating a heating network, the boom of an automobile crane touched a power line (Minsk). There were no casualties. There was no power outage.
The causes of the incident were the violation of industrial safety requirements by the officials of the crane owner – carrying out operations with a truck crane at a distance of less than 30 m from 110 kV power lines without a work permit, as well as the crane operator's disregard for the warning signals of the safety device.
18.09.2023 two workers fell from a homemade platform suspended from the hook of a KS-5576B truck crane, which was lifted to a height of about 6 m for the installation of the building's roof drainage system (Minsk region, Lyuban district).
As a result of the fall, one worker died, and the second was hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.
The cause of the incident was the violation of the procedure for operating lifting cranes in terms of lifting people and loads on a platform not provided for by the operating documentation.
02.10.2023 a fatal accident occurred during demolition work using a truck crane on a blocked residential building (Kalinkovichi district). During the dismantling of the concrete floor slab of the second floor, the stability of an adjacent wall slab, which was standing vertically, was disturbed. The victim, trying to avoid being hit by the falling slab, lost his footing and fell to the ground from a height of approximately 3 meters.
The cause of the incident was a violation of the procedure for safe building demolition.
06.10.2023 due to a strong gust of wind, a tower and crane boom collapsed (Minsk). Construction and installation work with the lifting crane was not being carried out; it was being prepared for dismantling. There were no casualties.
The incident occurred due to violations of the manufacturer's instructions for the installation of the lifting crane, and the lack of control by officials of the owner over the employees' performance of the assigned work on preparing the tower crane for dismantling.
Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (GOSPROMNADZOR)