Crane Business

A crawler crane working on the new National Art Gallery in Singapore overturned this morning when the excavation gave way.

Wind and weather played a role in last week’s Regional Qualifying Rodeo, hosted by Empire Crane in Syracuse, N.Y., as area crane operators competed for a spot in the MCM & CIC Crane Operator Rodeo National Championship

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will launch a programme aimed at reducing serious injuries and fatalities associated with the operation of cranes in Northwest USA.

A 40-year-old crane operator had to be rescued from a tower crane around 35 metres in the air last Wednesday in Graz, Austria.

A man had a lucky escape on a job site in Vancouver, Canada yesterday after the hoist cables of a tower crane brushed against overhead power lines.

Hugon chose a Liebherr LTC 1045-3.1 compact crane for a job deep inside the city walls of the medieval town of Carcassonne in France.

Sixteen students in a career/technical education class from Harnett Central High School in Angier, N.C., had a chance to learn about the crane industry firsthand in a two-hour class led by crane experts at ALL Carolina Crane & Equipment.

Swiss crane and transport company Clausen Kran used a Liebherr LTR 1060 telescopic crawler crane to replace a protective traffic structure on the Simplon Pass in the Alps.

One of GGR’s mini spider cranes, a 6 tonne capacity UNIC URW-706, was used with an MRTA611 Six-in-Line glass vacuum lifter to help glaze the external walls of the venue now that the temporary seating area used for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been removed.

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