Man hurt in port crane collapse

Posted on Jul 13th, 2009 with tags , , , , , , , , , , .

A man suffered life-threatening injuries when a crane collapsed on to a ship at a container port. Fire crews were called to Southampton Docks, owned by DP World, at Dock Gate 20 in Western Avenue, at 0520 BST. The crane, a twin boom rig with the cab suspended on rails, toppled on to the ship, Nyke Themis, the coastguard said.

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