Crane Safety

A crane has collapsed on a power plant construction project in the Russian city of Troitsk in the Ural Mountains close to the border with Kazakhstan

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.

An All Terrain crane has overturned on a hospital jobsite in Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia today, whilst placing steelwork on a new laboratory extension at a cardiac centre. No one was hurt in the incident.

Liebherr is hosting a series of customer days this week at which one of the more amazing demonstrations it has in store is an ingenious multiple crawler crane lift.

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.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned on a road in West Jones County, Mississippi on Friday, the operator escaped with moderate injuries.

A 550 lattice truck crane tipped precariously while working on a road job in Mexico City on Saturday, after one of its outriggers broke through into a disused pedestrian underpass.

A Manhattan judge on Wednesday rebuffed the operating engineers’ effort to block the city from implementing controversial new crane licensing requirements.

Space Shuttle Discovery, the most traveled shuttle in NASA’s fleet, ended its voyage at Washington Dulles International Airport this spring after more than 150 million miles of airtime.

Cavotec has developed a lightweight radio remote control (RRC) unit for operators controlling equipment such as mobile cranes and tower cranes over extended periods.