Safety

WorkCover New South Wales – Australia hosted a tower crane safety roundtable on Tuesday, following the fire and jib collapse last week.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, (SRNS) Aiken, S.C., operates with an award-winning safety culture, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) houses one of the world’s most diverse nuclear storage facilities.…

We finally have details of the crane that overturned in the UK last week, a 100 tonne four axle All Terrain on a road in Antrobus, south of Warrington.

A Grove GTK telescopic tower crane caught fire, while working on a wind farm in northern Germany.

Harrison Hoist employees were dismantling the crane when it went over causing two erectors to fall around 50 metres to the ground – both died from their injuries.

Over 40 contractor delegates attended a special IPAF half day seminar today at London’s Heathrow airport Terminal 5, in order to discuss the specifying of anti-entrapment devices on boom lifts.

Rush hour motorists had a lucky escape on Tuesday evening when a crane’s trailing boom dolly overturned on highway 101 near Santa Barbara, California.

Counterfeit spare parts for cranes originating in Asia are spreading into regions including the Middle East, said Thibaut Le Besnerais, global product director of tower cranes for Manitowoc Cranes.

Five men blamed for the death of a co-worker crushed by a falling crane in Dubai, have been fined Dh2,000 ($540) each and jailed for three months.

The Favelle Favco-brand tower crane-whose luffing jib dramatically flipped backwards as Superstorm Sandy blew into Midtown Manhattan-was properly prepared for wind, says the construction manager in charge of the project.