Safety

Two Grove GMK7550 all-terrain cranes have been used to lift a pair of giant historical artefacts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the demand for quality training and certification programs for operators, riggers and safety personnel.

Four crane operator certification programmes run by US based Crane Institute Certification (CIC) have received American National Standards Institute (ANSI)accreditation.

Bay Bridge that linked San Francisco to Oakland to be dismantled with 2 Liebherr LTM 1160/s and 2 Link-Belt HTC 8690, to be totally completed by July 2016. The first nine months of the project were consumed with engineering and planning.

State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) around the country have discovered that night jobsites are safer and more efficient for a number of reasons.

A four axle All Terrain crane overturned yesterday in the town of Ober-Ramstadt, near Darmstadt, thankfully no one was injured.

A man walking down a street had a near miss when a falling crane boom/tower missed him by millimetres in a Russian video.

Two cranes collapsed at VT Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on Wednesday, injuring five people including a crane operator who was seriously hurt and remains in hospital. All five are employees of VT Halter Marine.

In support of the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators’ policy of providing calculators for certain CCO written exams, Sicklesteel Cranes (Mt. Vernon, WA) has donated 20,000 calculators for candidates’ use.

The China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group (CRMBEC) used six Potain tower cranes to build two 280m tall bridge pylons for Chishi Grand Bridge in southern China.