Crane Safety

In the USA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined crane operator Harrison Hoist US$ 29,400 and charged the firm with six serious safety violations following the fatal tower crane collapse at the University of Texas in Dallas in July.

WorkCover New South Wales – Australia hosted a tower crane safety roundtable on Tuesday, following the fire and jib collapse last week.

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, (SRNS) Aiken, S.C., operates with an award-winning safety culture, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) houses one of the world’s most diverse nuclear storage facilities.…

Spydercrane has installed the iVISOR mentor load moment indication system, the gSENS LWG 154 cable reel, and the compact pSENS DAVS pressure transducer in its URW375 mini crawler crane.

We finally have details of the crane that overturned in the UK last week, a 100 tonne four axle All Terrain on a road in Antrobus, south of Warrington.

A Grove GTK telescopic tower crane caught fire, while working on a wind farm in northern Germany.

WHECO Worldwide Services, North America’s leading crane and capital equipment structural repair and restoration services company, has released a free educational eBook called The Crane Accident Mitigation Manifesto about how to respond to and manage the post-accident experience.

Terex Port Solutions has been presented the “Crane of the Year” award by leading magazine International Bulk Journal (IBJ) in Hamburg, Germany.

Harrison Hoist employees were dismantling the crane when it went over causing two erectors to fall around 50 metres to the ground – both died from their injuries.

We can now confirm the fatal crawler crane overturn in Ba Ria, Vung Tau, in southern Vietnam on Sunday.