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IPAF is welcoming a paper by FEM (Fédération Européenne de la Manutention – the European manufacturers’ association for material handling equipment), which reiterates that tower cranes are designed to lift loads, not people.

A crane overturned this morning in Phuket City, Thailand, cutting off a high voltage power line, but it is hard to see exactly what happened.

A five axle All Terrain crane lost its balance in Mineola on the north east side of New York City yesterday.

helicopter successfully rescued a tower crane operator in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, yesterday as a fire raged on the job site beneath him.

The New York City authorities have announced new legislation that limits the age of cranes operating in its jurisdiction.

A video of a lift that purportedly occurred last week in Russia hopefully no one was hurt.

We have received photographs of an incident involving two five axle All Terrain cranes in Caracas, Venezuela last Friday.

A tower crane has collapsed onto an Aldi supermarket in Bad Homburg, Germany killing at least one member of the public.

A self-erecting mobile tower crane has gone over in a shopping street in Nieuwegein, on the south side of Utrecht in the Netherlands, no is hurt and damage is relatively minor.

A WOMAN has won her fight to have a tower crane looming over her back garden removed — thanks to the Henley Standard.