NCCCO also announced that it had been granted continued accreditation by ANSI for its previously accredited programs: Mobile Crane Operator, Tower Crane Operator, Overhead Crane Operator, Rigger Level I, and Signalperson
The managing director of a failed construction company has been fined £80,000 plus £18,495 costs following the death of an employee caused by a crane overturning while overloaded.
The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced a 26-year-old man with epilepsy to the maximum term of seven years in prison Monday for killing six children in a mobile crane accident last April in Tochigi Prefecture, even though his condition played a factor in the accident.
A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week. The cause? – poor outrigger set up.
A shocking road accident was caught on camera yesterday in Rotterdam, a crane came out of a side street at speed, hitting a car and taking it around a hundred metres before coming to a stop.
The Cotter Dam project is losing time and money after work safety authorities shut down the site’s main tower crane.
A crane operator was rescued yesterday after his crane toppled over the side of a bridge.
The crane was working on a bridge job near Winfield Township in Butler County, Pennsylvania, lifting steel, when we understand it went over the edge falling around 28 metres, according to local reports.
A crane inspector certification programme has been developed by the NCCCO in conjunction with the Crane Certification Association of America (CCAA), offering inspectors of tower, mobile and overhead cranes distinct certifications.
More than 220 sign company personnel have participated in ISA’s industry-leading mobile crane operator safety certification training program in 2011. The training program is designed to help the industry meet certification requirements from OSHA.
A crane operator has died after his crawler crane overturned in North Douglas, near Juneau, Alaska on Thursday. The man, Boyd Cody, 75, was operating the crane from a barge in the Gastineau Channel, moving a larger generator at the yard of Trucano Construction in North Douglas when it tipped onto its side.