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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.
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,
The fourth International Tower Cranes (ITC) conference will be held in London, UK, on 27 and 28 May 2015. The event will include presentations on tower crane innovations, rental trends,…
Crane Inspection & Certification Bureau (CICB) Ready for Increased Demand for Crane and Lifting Industry Safety Training Programs
In November 2013, Ontario introduced a regulation to its Occupational Health and Safety Act requiring employers to ensure workers and supervisors complete a basic occupational health and safety awareness training program by July 1, 2014. This regulation applies to all Ontario workplaces, regardless of size or sector.
The operator of the crane that overturned in Neuenstadt am Kocher, Germany, injuring 16 people has been fined.
Former NASA astronaut Mike Mullane regaled a crowd of about 860 health and safety professionals at the opening keynote session of the Western Conference on Safety in Vancouver.