mobile cranes

A lattice truck crane overturned yesterday in Maplewood, near Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota trapping the crane operator in his cab.

A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A loader crane operator died after the boom of the crane he was operating came in to contact with overhead power lines, in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.

Altec has launched a new 45 ton boom truck/truck crane, the AC45-127S with 38.5 metre five section boom and 16.6 metre telescopic jib.

A Rough Terrain crane working on Interstate highway I17 near Bumble Bee, to the north of Phoenix, Arizona, overturned yesterday.

A three axle truck crane dropped into a large sinkhole that opened up on a road in Dongguan, Guangdong, Southern China earlier this week.

Hiab unveiled four new mid-sized loader crane models, the X-CLX 178, the X-DUO 178, the X-HIDUO 188 and the X-HIPRO 192, at a launch in Berlin yesterday.

Dayton, Ohio-based Composite Advantage’s newest LargeLOAD fiberglass reinforced crane outrigger pad has been engineered for work sites operating medium and large cranes on ground with lower soil pressures.

From mining and manufacturing to construction, transportation, and agriculture, the need to weigh or measure inputs, outputs, and applied force has grown in recent decades to improve production safety and control costs.

A 50 tonne capacity articulated crane overturned last week while making a lift in Switzerland.