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A company spokeswoman said no one was injured. She said: "Aquatic, an Acteon company, is investigating reports of an incident at our Peterhead facility. An industrial crane collapsed at Dales Park Industrial estate Peterhead, Aberdeenshire although fortunately no one was working in it at the time.

An unfortunate legend on the wall of subsea engineering firm Aquatic at Peterhead Business Park. The subsea firm specialises in laying and lifting equipment and cables from the seabed for oil and gas firms. A multi-million pound crane which collapsed at a north-east industrial site remains in place two weeks after the incident.

The accident happened at a site operated by subsea business Aquatic on the afternoon of May 5. No one was injured when the ft vehicle went over.

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A man was badly injured when the spider lift he was using overturned on a job in Alabama, US. Contact us. Read Online. News Events Directory Jobs Subscriptions. News All News. In order to view all images, please register and log in. Scotland's Traffic Commissioner has now ruled against a fleet expansion. The FAI into the crash heard the tragedy could have been avoided had the vehicle been subject to more rigorous maintenance.

In , the company was allowed to keep operating , as the Traffic Commissioner felt it would be disproportionate to put it out of business. A warning was issued. In , the firm was fined after one of its workers was seriously injured in an accident involving wind turbine components at Inverness Harbour two years earlier.

The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland, Joan Aitken, has now ruled on an application from the operator to double its authorisation, from five to 10 vehicles and from seven to 15 trailers. In a written ruling, she said: "I had some knowledge of this operator from a public inquiry of , the background to which was the very distressing deaths of a mother and young daughters. She said she now found herself also considering an incident from



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