Safety

Three people suffered minor injuries after a tower crane dropped its load in the Leith district of Edinburgh, Scotland, on Friday.

The 2013 Crane & Rigging and Industrial Crane & Hoist Conferences made its debut in Indianapolis last week to a crowd of industrial and construction managers, crane operators, equipment suppliers, manufacturers and more.

OSHA has announced that it will propose to extend the compliance date for the crane operator certification requirement by three years to Nov. 10, 2017.

US crane operator certification company NCCCO has urged OSHA to rework the new crane rule without delay.

This spring Crane Institute Certification (CIC) submitted all documents for re-accreditation by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA). Currently, applications have been submitted for the following programs.

A rotor was dropped last week as it was unloaded at power generation facility in Darlington Ontario, Canada.

A large tower crane crashed into an apartment block in Kirov 1,000 miles to the east of Moscow yesterday.

Five years after a mother and her two daughters died on Aberdeenshire’s roads, motoring groups have called for all modern vehicles to have MOTs.

A tree being loaded by a loader crane in a new town in the southern province of Binh Duong, struck a power line that forms a critical part of Vietnam’s national grid, causing a massive power outage across the southern region of Vietnam yesterday.

OSHA has announced that it is considering extending the compliance date for the crane operator certification by three years to Nov. 10, 2017, following recent hearings that garnered industry input.