Safety

A company director has been ordered to pay £20,000 over the death of his best friend after an access platform toppled over in Manchester city centre in 2007.

Health and Safety Minister Lord McKenzie said: “The new register will encourage high standards of safety on site and give the public confidence that these huge machines are being operated responsibly.”

The story describes the collapse of the boom. The included picture shows a turntable that separated from the mast. You can see the pin holes with no pins in place. I’m wondering where they are.

A tower crane collapsed on the Revel Casino project during high winds. The cranes on the project appear to be Potain 485’s. As of November there were six on site and it is’t clear as to how many are currently on site.

The content covers a range of topics, including introduction to the trade, principles of tower cranes, safety, rigging, load charts, and tower crane operations.

A truck lost control in Pretoria South Africa hitting a tower crane on the side of the highway. It was knocked out of plumb, it’s base damaged, but it still stood.

Reports say that no one was injured apart from that there are currently no further details and just one very grainy photograph.

The crumpled crane

More information when we receive it.

The accused were described as “reckless” by district attorney Cyrus Vance, who said that their alleged negligence with the tower crane on the 333 East 91st Street construction site, led directly to the deaths of two construction workers.

All 12 workers had been rescued by 14:00 with one said to be suffering from life threatening injuries.

The warning follows the release of guidance by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the forthcoming Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010