Ernie Pierini

A telescopic crawler crane has tipped over this morning in Connecticut while installing its counterweights. The crane a brand new Mantis/Tadano -either a 77 or 100 ton capacity unit, was setting up by the side of the road in Niantic, East Lyme and appears to have been lifting one of its slabs of its counterweight prior to installing it when it went over

Salespeople wanna make sales – and for the most part feel alone in the process. One of the challenges all salespeople face is: What’s the best way? What is/are the way, the path, the words, and the actions that will lead me to the promised land? The sale. Well, the one path that all salespeople want to avoid is the one that leads to “no.”

Engineering company Monadelphous Group Ltd. became the first company in Australia to acquire a 750 tonne capacity Manitowoc 18000 with Max-Er attachment. The company’s engineering construction division has put it to work at a mining operation in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Italian crane manufacturer Fassi has been playing a key role in the rescue of 33 miners trapped for nearly ten weeks in Copiapo, Chile. Fassi cranes have been maneuvering the steel pipes to form the recently-completed escape tunnel that is part of one of the most complex rescue operations in mining history.

Eagle West Cranes puts an Audi R8 onto a roof in downtown Vancouver, BC.

A 280 tonne lattice boom truck crane left the road on Friday and plunged into a ditch, after completing a lift in Astoria,the crane, an older Demag on a Faun carrier is owned by Portland based Campbell Crane & Rigging.

JE Dunn Construction is using a Linden-Comansa 21 LC 400 tower crane to restore the historic Kansas Statehouse in Topeka. The crane is working at a height of almost 104m (340ft). JE Dunn is managing the $36m Kansas Statehouse exterior masonry restoration project in the capital, Topeka.

At around 9:53 a.m. Saturday, an emergency call came into the Bolivar County Sheriff’s Department regarding an accident at Quality Steel Corporation in Cleveland. “There was an industrial accident that resulted in a fatality,” said Investigator Dasel Moorhead.

The operator of the 110 metre tower crane working on the new Maricopa County Criminal Court in Phoenix, Arizona, is unusual in more than one way. First of all she is female, still a rare sight in North America and Europe. Secondly she is 69 years old and a great grandmother.

A large industrial crane has tipped over in Saint John, smashing through a fence and sending the crane operator to hospital. The accident happened at about 9 a.m. Friday at a construction site near the waterfront.