MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The owner of a construction company whose cranes collapsed on the East Side in 2008, killing nine people is expected to turn himself in to face manslaughter charges Monday

Reports say that no one was injured apart from that there are currently no further details and just one very grainy photograph.

The crumpled crane

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A serious crane accident in Northern Germany involving the dropping of a large turbine rotor has been reported.

The accident involved a 1,200 tonne Liebherr LTM11200-9.1 erecting a large wind turbine in Hennickendorf in Brandenburg at the end of last week.

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The cranes can operate with raised jib angles between 15-70˚. They have been erected on 1.6 x 1.6m masts.

The warning follows the release of guidance by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on the forthcoming Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations 2010

Gottwald Port Technology GmbH has sold mobile harbour cranes (MHC) to Lebanon and Qatar which, it says, strengthens its position in the Middle East.

The 34 year-old operator was employed by APM Terminals and was loading steel sheets on trucks at the port when the crane tipped over.

The new LTL-3000 is being designed in conjunction with Hitachi Transport for construction of the new advanced boiling water reactor at Higashidori NN-1 nuclear power plant for Tokyo Electric Power Compan

Liebherr Container Cranes has delivered a Super Post Panamax container crane to the Port of Tauranga, New Zealand.