Dear All, Trying to find how many crane rescues have taken place in the last five years. I have searched the internet but just seem to get training companies or stories of individuals being retrieved as they need to attend hospital for medical reasons. Regards PaulR

Paul Have you tried the CPA (Construction Plant Hire Association)? There are a couple of Special interest Groups there for cranes. In my experience they Special Interest Groups share incident rates and Investigation etc ...that might help.. :)

Morning Gents, There was a rescue/ recovery enacted on the Olympic village project back in 2011 using full gotcha kit. I was part of the rescue team who responded at the time. I do recall the trainers telling us when we did the training in 2011 that the statistics were close to 1 in a million chance of having to actually use and deploy the kit in anger. The CPA now calculate that figure as well to be 1 per 12.9 x 10(power 6) operating hours. The CPA have a good technical guidance note (TIN013) on crane rescue including stats over the last 10 years. The event I have mentioned above in 2011 is the sole reported rescue in that period. These stats may only be rescue deploying a kit and there may have also been rescues enacted by other means e.g. basket to cab or during erection of the crane itself from towers. At the time when these stats were stated and before the rescue I was asked do we even need the kit...? you never do until that 1 in a million time happens. Hope this helps. Phil.

We had to recover a guy from a Tower Crane two years ago after he suffered a back spasm. We couldnt use the rope recovery kit as the guy refused to get in the harness or stretcher. In the end we used our rescue cage and an adjacent taller tower crane.