Swiss crane rental firm Leu used two of its Liebherr mobile cranes to construct a salt storage facility for United Swiss Salt Works (Schweizerische Rheinsalinen).
A mobile crane overturned at a parking garage site in the Simei area of Singapore yesterday. The crane’s boom came to rest on the structure of the parking deck and no one was injured in the incident.
It’s interesting to me that at the end of the year, people are always interested in your biggest success, or your biggest failure, in the year that’s ending.
In Parañaque City, Philippines, four Potain tower cranes are building the $200m Belle Grand Manila Bay resort, a large hotel and casino within the four-casino complex, “Entertainment City”.
MCM Events will welcome an OSHA representative to address delegates at its jointly-held Crane & Rigging Conference and Industrial Crane & Hoist Conference (CRC/ICHC), at the Hampton Inn Hotel & Suites New Orleans—Convention Center, New Orleans, La., 23-24 May, 2012.
A man was seriously injured in Calgary on Thursday after he was crushed by a lattice boom section being loaded onto a truck.
Huisman has installed and load tested its 17 m super fly jib for one of the heavy lift mast cranes onboard BigLift Shipping’s Happy Buccaneer
Italian manufacturer CTE has built a combined truck mounted aerial lift and loader crane for a fire department in Hong Kong.
A 40 tonne crawler crane fell, the boom coming down on an area where people were working, at Broad Construction’s $50 million (£33 million) redevelopment of Mt Sheridan Plaza, Cairns, Australia. Fortunately no one was injured.
A BURY firm has been fined £40,000 after a horrific crane accident left a man severely injured. David Collins is now a paraplegic after suffering serious injuries to his head, back and legs when metal tubes weighing as much as a transit van fell on top of him.
