Crane Safety

The UK government’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has stepped up efforts to ensure construction sites meet national standards when it comes to site safety.

Bath Iron Works, ME.-based company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation has been building warships for the U.S. Navy for 128 years. This past December, Bath Iron Works broke its own heaviest lift record using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to pick nearly 1,000 USt – more than double the weight previously lifted by the shipyard.

A small city type crane overturned near Plymouth, in south west England yesterday.

Sennebogen, which also builds material handlers, port equipment and lifting cranes, is using this month’s Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany, to take the wraps off a new 130 tonne duty cycle crawler crane, the 6130 HD.

The cranes, named the GMK4100S, were built at the request of German rental company Dornseiff, based in Burbach, to meet the demand to perform heavy lifts indoors.

Palfinger is showing off its new PK 200002 L SH knuckle boom crane at Bauma, a model which it says ‘has closed the gap’ with mobile cranes.

In January, global spreader beam manufacturer, Modulift, designed and built spreaders to lift the world’s most powerful gas turbine. Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, installed the gas turbine onto the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, at Babcocks Rosyyth Shipyard in Scotland.

The UK’s CPA Tower Crane Interest Group held its annual open meeting yesterday, with a record attendance.

The luffing jib of a tower crane collapsed at a site in London yesterday dropping a load onto a footpath.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has confirmed that its substance abuse policy remains in full force and effect.