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New year kicks off with bridge bashing
Tuesday, 3 Jan, 2012 – 8:22 | No Comment
New year kicks off with bridge bashing

In a quiet start to the new working week, two cases of bridge bashing, one in Singapore where an a crane of some sort ripped a large chunk out of the Change Alley link bridge at Collyer Quay and the other in Falmouth, Maine.

Beginning of a New Year
Friday, 30 Dec, 2011 – 10:28 | No Comment
Beginning of a New Year

As 2011 comes to a close, I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of the management and staff of craneblogger.com to thank our loyal readers who have devoted a few moments of their busy day to spend with us.

TOWER CRANE COLLAPSE CAUSES EVACUATION
Wednesday, 28 Dec, 2011 – 8:15 | No Comment
TOWER CRANE COLLAPSE CAUSES EVACUATION

It has been reported that on Christmas Eve a tower crane was left in a precarious position and nearby flats evacuated in Allard Way, Saffron Walden, Essex after part of the crane collapsed.

Articulating Crane Operators & Rigger Level II Certification earn ANSI Accreditation.
Thursday, 22 Dec, 2011 – 8:03 | No Comment
Articulating Crane Operators & Rigger Level II Certification earn ANSI Accreditation.

NCCCO also announced that it had been granted continued accreditation by ANSI for its previously accredited programs: Mobile Crane Operator, Tower Crane Operator, Overhead Crane Operator, Rigger Level I, and Signalperson

Director charged £98,000
Wednesday, 21 Dec, 2011 – 8:18 | One Comment
Director charged £98,000

The managing director of a failed construction company has been fined £80,000 plus £18,495 costs following the death of an employee caused by a crane overturning while overloaded.

Trucker gets seven years for killing kids
Tuesday, 20 Dec, 2011 – 7:59 | No Comment
Trucker gets seven years for killing kids

The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced a 26-year-old man with epilepsy to the maximum term of seven years in prison Monday for killing six children in a mobile crane accident last April in Tochigi Prefecture, even though his condition played a factor in the accident.

Another outrigger failure
Monday, 19 Dec, 2011 – 9:11 | One Comment
Another outrigger failure

A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week. The cause? – poor outrigger set up.

Lifting and transporting wind turbine, major challenge
Friday, 16 Dec, 2011 – 8:18 | No Comment
Lifting and transporting wind turbine, major challenge

Handling state-of-the-art wind turbine components is a major challenge for crane service companies, turbine OEMs and transport specialists alike.

Certified Boom, to Repair Wrecked Truck Crane
Wednesday, 14 Dec, 2011 – 7:57 | No Comment
Certified Boom, to Repair Wrecked Truck Crane

Certified Boom Repair Service Inc., Tampa, Fla., will restore a 2011 Link-Belt HTC-8675 truck crane that was wrecked last summer while being delivered from the factory to the end-user. The trailer it was being hauled on got stuck on railroad tracks and an oncoming train struck the driver’s side of the crane.

Waters muddied in NY crane trial
Tuesday, 13 Dec, 2011 – 12:52 | No Comment
Waters muddied in NY crane trial

A ‘newly discovered’ letter could stir up confusion in the on-going civil and criminal trials concerning New York’s fatal Upper East Side crane collapse in 2008.