Safety

Two men escaped with burns after the boom of their loader crane contacted overhead power lines on a site near Alor Setar in Malaysia on Tuesday.

An investigation into the faulty World Trade Center crane that dropped a load of steel beams from 40 stories above ground on Feb. 16 might take several months to complete, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has agreed that basic electronic calculators can now be permitted for use on certain CCO written exams.

A crane which collapsed killing two people was loaded with four extra tonnes of weight because the owners used the wrong manual, an inquest heard yesterday.

In a recent comment to one of our Death Wish reports a reader mentioned a poem, ‘I could have saved a life today’.

The inquest into the deaths of two men in the 2006 tower crane collapse in Battersea, London, UK will open today.

A former Department of Buildings big testified Monday that she considered filing criminal charges against crane owner James Lomma months before his rig collapsed, killing two Manhattan hardhats.

The Australian third party inspection programme CraneSafe celebrated its 10th anniversary in January. The programme started in the state of Victoria, as CraneSafe was born out of the Green Sticker that was originally issued by WorkSafe Victoria.

Welsh hirer Bryn Thomas Crane is calling on an MP to stop using its name in her campaign against phoenix firms which fold to avoid paying health and safety fines.

A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres. The man was reportedly climbing the tower and had almost reached the cab of the 35 metre high crane, when he slipped and fell around five metres inside the tower.