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A crane tipped over in Akron, Ohio yesterday with its boom crashing into the roof of a house. The three axle truck crane was removing a large dead tree from the rear garden of the home.

I just read a pathetic sales pitch from an email where a “training company” was telling me why training fails, and offering what THEY thought was the best way to approach the process.

A safety alert on the influence of wind forces during crane operations has been issued jointly by FEM and ESTA.

A tower crane should only be erected or dismantled and tested by competent persons, i.e. an engineer and erection crew trained in the erection and dismantling of that type of tower crane.

German crane rental company Eisele used a pair of 500 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes to lift and place 275 concrete bridge beams on a Frankfurt airport expansion project

One of our English readers spotted one of the craziest operators we have seen since starting our Death Wish series – in France.

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

At the beginning of the year, you were given a big, fat quota. Your company may have softened the lexicon by calling it a “sales plan,” or a goal. But the bottom line is: if you don’t meet it, you’re out.

In spite of a number of fatal accidents people are still setting up lifts in the street without proper cordoning off.

Operator information systems are moving with the times to provide accessible data in busier working environments for more advanced and larger cranes.