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The union representing outside city workers in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is applauding a coroner jury’s recommendations into the 2009 death of a worker who was fatally crushed by a mobile crane.

A boom truck working in a street in Boston, Massachusetts, last week overturned when it slewed over the short rigged side of the crane.

Between 2004 and 2013, 40 truck drivers were seriously injured by a passing vehicle while changing tires, putting on tire chains, or doing other vehicle maintenance tasks.

This award is presented to certified crane operators who exhibit exemplary work achievements while accumulating 10,000 consecutive man-hours and recording zero accidents and incidents. Winners represent nine different companies:

A Rough Terrain crane working in southern Switzerland overturned on Tuesday while trying to lift a load that was too heavy.

Iowa City firefighters and Mortenson Construction teamed up and use a tower crane to simulate a high angle rescue some 200 feet over Iowa City.

The Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada will return to the Marriott at River Cree Resort, Edmonton, Alberta on Oct. 20-21. 2014.

A number of readers have alerted us to the fact that exceptionally heavy rains earlier this year has left the ground soft in places and undermined previously firm ground.

A Bloomberg administration plan to open the New York construction scene to out-of-town crane operators — long tangled up in litigation from the city’s crane operators’ union – may be further hindered by a new bill that would require two years of experience for operators to become licensed.

A former Port Authority commissioner who moonlighted as a private-sector engineer intervened on behalf of one of his clients so they could use a type of tower crane at a New Jersey project that had been deemed unsafe in New York,