Safety

Ensuring that equipment is properly specified and fit for purpose is clearly critical to any safe lifting program. However, the fact remains that most accidents are the result of human error.

Iain Gillham, the tower crane operator critically injured when his crane collapsed in Liverpool, UK, in 2009 has won a £2.7 million out of court settlement. Gillham, a site manager…

Terex Cranes announces that it is tracking recent reports of counterfeit Terex® crawler crane models originating from China. Similar to the incident reports of 2011, the Terex CC 2500-1 lattice boom crawler

The tower crane that dropped its jib on the cabinet office in London has now been removed.

Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has carried out a large number of surprise inspections focused on crane safety, following several recent incidents.

Spotted by a reader in Perth, Western Australia, men riding the load on a new build construction site.

Almost half of building sites checked by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) failed basic checks particularly when working at height.

A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A crawler crane operating with long boom and jib flipped over backwards on a construction site in Singapore yesterday. No was injured in the incident.

A loader crane operator died after the boom of the crane he was operating came in to contact with overhead power lines, in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.