Crane Safety

New Zealand’s McLeod Cranes has won a Department of Labour sponsored award for the best safety initiative by a small business.

A mobile self-erecting tower crane overturned in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands on Friday after its outriggers sank in soft sand.

The Liebherr MK 110 mobile construction crane assisted in the construction of a four-storied extension to a factory in the Tuas industrial area of Singapore.

It is taking one of the tallest cranes in Europe to put the finishing touches to the structure of Manchester Airport’s newly constructed £16 million air traffic control tower.

A man died on Wednesday while working on one of the Metro construction sites in Bangalore India, after a crane boom came down on him.

Perched above New York City’s skyline, two tower cranes are piecing together the new One World Trade Center, which just became the city’s tallest skyscraper. How do those cranes get up there?

Linden Comansa added the final model, the 21 LC 660 tower crane, to its LC2100 series. Designed under EN 14439 European standards, the crane is available in four versions, depending on the maximum load: 18, 24, 36 and 48 tonnes (39,680; 52,910; 79,360 and 105,820 pounds).

According to the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO), crane operators wanting to work in West Virginia still need to obtain CCO crane operator certification following the passage of a bill that maintains a decade-old state requirement.

A man received a massive electric shock earlier today in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, after the crane he grabbed the hook of a lattice crawler crane that was working next to a 23,000 volt high tension overhead power line.

Liebherr is providing four free one day training courses in the UK on covering the influence of wind on crane operations.