Ernie Pierini

Spotted in the USA, possibly Michigan? A boom truck set up on mud with some outrigger mats that create Death Wish. The crane, which wasn’t working at the time, appears to have been used with a suspended personnel platform – not the best of starts – considering proper fully controlled baskets area available for such jobs.

Every year, on April 28th, we honour the memory of Canadian workers who have lost their lives due to work-related injuries and occupational diseases. The annual Day of Mourning is an opportunity to remember those fallen workers and to re-commit to creating safer workplaces. In 2010, 143 B.C. workers lost their lives due to workplace injury and disease.

Liebherr-Great Britain Ltd. celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year. The Company is a subsidiary of Liebherr-International AG, Bulle (Switzerland), and provides sales, service and spares for the Group’s complete range of construction and materials handling equipment throughout the whole of the UK and Ireland. Liebherr-Great Britain Ltd. was first formed in 1961 (known then as Liebherr Building Machinery Limited) primarily to supply the British construction industry with tower cranes.

Maximum Capacity Media (MCM) will take its Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) to Canada for a two-day educational, networking event and exhibition, October 12-13, 2011, Fantasyland Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta. Whether you work with mobile or overhead cranes, CRC Canada will provide opportunities to improve the management of crane operations before, during, and after the lift.

Advancing technology requires increasingly future-proof, flexible and operator safety conscious designs. One of the main issues facing the remote control sector is the ongoing battle for air-space as the number of remote controls in most work environments increases.

Simon has autism. Simon loves to win. Actually Simon needs to win, and thrives on coming in first. Simon also HATES to lose, and some of his autistic symptoms manifest themselves when he can’t claim, “I WON!” or even, “I DID IT!”

Schmidbauer has added its muscle to the Munich art scene by helping to erect a 52 m high sculpture. The company used its 600 tonne capacity Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane to mount the 57 tonne top section of the Mae West statue onto its base at the Effnerplatz roundabout in the German capital.

Michael Brown, 46, until recently a tower crane operator with Kier Construction in the UK, is running a race from John O’Groats in northern Scotland to Lands End in Cornwall. The race is in aid of the charity Project Mobility 4×4, which equips off road vehicles for amputees coming back from the various conflicts around the world.

A crane operator had to be rescued by fire fighters yesterday after the straddle carrier/crane he was operating toppled over, trapping him in the cab, at Seaforth Docks in Liverpool

The new Effi-Plus system increases hoist and lowering speeds with light loads up to 70%, so that the hoist cycle time is significantly shortened, the company says. Effi-Plus has been applied to the 24 kW, 37 kW, 50 kW and 65kW drives of its LC1100, LC2100 and LCL series cranes at no extra cost to customers.