Ernie Pierini

Liebherr has issued a statement this morning on the incident at the end of November at the Itaquerao Stadium in São Paulo, in which a 1,350 tonne capacity LR 11350 crawler crane collapsed killing two site workers

The European Association of Abnormal Road Transport and Mobile Cranes (ESTA) is busy preparing for its fast-approaching annual Awards of Excellence competition.

Emaar Square is one of Turkey’s largest private developments, and the Liebherr cranes are being used to meet all of the project’s high-rise lifting requirements.

Crane Institute Certification (CIC) in the USA has added a specific designation for friction crane operators to its training certification cards.

The sudden and unexpected detachment of boom extensions (jibs) commonly found on telescopic boom mobile cranes has resulted in serious workplace injuries, according to the Infrastructure Health and Safety Association (IHSA).

Following the January jib collapse on a Jost JTL 158 tower crane in the UK, the manufacturer told IC that it is investigating the cause and will produce a report containing its findings.

A boom truck lifting a large air conditioning unit in Mentor, Ohio yesterday overturned, with the boom coming down on to a row of parked cars.

A 600 tonne crawler crane slipped off a truck yesterday, while being loaded in Singapore, fortunately no one was hurt in the incident.

An operator dismantling a self-erecting tower crane in Germany is said to have made an error that resulted in the crane overturning at a site in Osterhofen Bavaria. Thankfully on one was hurt in the incident which occurred on Friday.

Another Jost tower crane jib collapsed yesterday on a building under construction in Croydon, London during a storm.