crane operators

All the news services are reporting that a crane operator has been charged with manslaughter following the collapse of a building in Philadelphia last week in which six people died and 14 were seriously injured.

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.

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.

A UK company director Allan Turnbull has been sentenced to three years in prison following the death of a man who fell from a boom lift after it was struck by a beam dropped by a crane.

Last Wednesday a four-axle All Terrain crane travelling between the high altitude ski resort of Melchsee-Frutt and Stöckalp in the Canton of Obwalden, Switzerland went over the edge of the twisting alpine road and slid down the side of the mountain