In order to better explore and analyze the cause of crane accidents in the construction industry,the report of 2012-2017 lifting accidents from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of the People's Republic of China (MOHURD)is taken as samples.The Loughborough ConAC model is used to investigate and analyze the cause of crane accidents in the construction industry.Meanwhile,the accident pathways network is used to further analyze the causal relationships among various layers of causes.The results show that the action behavior,supervision management,and risk management are three ma...