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A 3,000-kilogram load of concrete descends from a tower crane into a busy intersection during rush hour. A mobile crane graces an overhead power line, electrocuting the crane operator. A tower crane tips over – and crushes a worker. These catastrophic events could happen at any construction site that fails to properly address hazards, according to workplace health and safety experts.

A demonstration has been staged outside the Department of Work and Pensions to highlight concerns over scrapping tower crane regulations

When you buy a mobile harbour crane, what do you look for? Odds on, you’re looking for a powerful, efficient product that also provides great value for money.

The Construction Safety Campaign has called a protest rally on Tuesday against proposals to scrap tower crane regulations. Protesters want to retain the Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010, whoseabolition was advocated by the Lofstedt review of Government regulations.

Manitex International, Bridgeview, Ill., has announced that it is launching a new 50-ton capacity, rubber-track-mounted, telescopic-boom crane named the Manitex 50155GT. Manitex believes the 50155GT is the highest-capacity crane ever mounted on a rubber-tracked carrier.

Introduced this Spring at Intermat, Newport News, Va.-based Liebherr’s 380 EC-B 16 Litronic flat-top crane is the series flagship, extending the series range to 380 ton-meters.

Fédération Européenne de la Manutention (FEM) has revised its guidance on the use of cranes to lift people in connection with leisure activities.

Around 3,000 people from all over the world were expected over two days at the Liebherr-Werk Ehingen factory in Germany on 13 and 14 June.

Customers at Liebherr-Werk Ehingen in Germany on 13 June were treated to first sight of a new telescopic boom crawler crane. The 220 tonne capacity LTR 1220 has a 60 metre telescopic boom derived from the 220 tonne LTM 1220-5.2 wheeled mobile crane.

Tinkerbell the world’s largest capacity heavy lift tower crane has swung into action at Sydney’s $2 billion Central Park development, the first time the behemoth has been used in a CBD development.