Ernie Pierini

The Daily Mail has reported that a female crane operator survived a 100m fall from the top of a 33-storey building and survived. Two co-workers died in the collapse.

A tower crane should only be erected or dismantled and tested by competent persons, i.e. an engineer and erection crew trained in the erection and dismantling of that type of tower crane.

German crane rental company Eisele used a pair of 500 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes to lift and place 275 concrete bridge beams on a Frankfurt airport expansion project

Japanese crane manufacturer Kobelco Cranes will build crawler cranes in India.

The crane was erected in 1942, replacing an older crane that had been hit by bombers during an air raid on the town of Barrow and its docks by the Luftwaffe 1941..Two watchmen, posted on top of the crane died when it was hit.

One of our English readers spotted one of the craziest operators we have seen since starting our Death Wish series – in France.

A man was killed earlier today and eight others injured when a double decker bus ran into the boom of a loader crane working in the inside lane of the three lane Chai Chee Street.

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

At the beginning of the year, you were given a big, fat quota. Your company may have softened the lexicon by calling it a “sales plan,” or a goal. But the bottom line is: if you don’t meet it, you’re out.

In spite of a number of fatal accidents people are still setting up lifts in the street without proper cordoning off.