Crane Safety

Zaren Baldacchino, 59, was visiting his son on a Sliema construction site yesterday morning when the steel wire of a tower crane snapped and its metal hook fell on him, killing him on the spot.

We have new information about the company operating the crane that tipped over Wednesday at Deaconess Hospital. The crane was removing a cooling tower from the hospital roof when it tipped and slammed into some cars.

Abu Dhabi Municipality is stepping up its efforts to improve crane safety by calling on contracting companies and construction consultants to regularly check that the cranes and lifting equipment working on their sites is safe to use and has a third party test certificate – a requirement since the end of October.

Crane simulators allow operators to experience a range of challenging conditions in one day that could take many years in the workplace. Euan Youdale talks to Arnold Free, CMLabs chief operating officer, about the simulator market

Gunnebo Johnson Corporation landed the prestigious Asian Hercules III project, together with Franklin Offshore in Singapore. Over the next twenty five months from then the crane ship will be designed, tested, manufactured and delivered. of the largest crane ships in the world – for the offshore business.

A boom truck crashed into the roof of a house in Concord New Hampshire yesterday as it attempted to lift parts of a tree from the rear garden.

A telescopic crawler crane overturned yesterday while being loaded onto a transport trailer in Connecticut.

A reader has sent us a fascinating video of a job in Zams, Austria, the client, a food company building a supermarket and restaurant, had to install a clear span concrete floor into an existing building. Might it also qualify for our Death Wish series though?

A report has been issued regarding the cause of the fatal 1,000 tonne crawler crane collapse in China last October. The report – or ‘final findings’ – was issued by the Jiuquan City People’s Government on December 16th, in a statement made by Jiuquan City administration secretary Yanzheng Lu.

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening.