Ernie Pierini

Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, (SRNS) Aiken, S.C., operates with an award-winning safety culture, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) houses one of the world’s most diverse nuclear storage facilities.…

“It’s beginning to look a lot like, Chris… ah, er…” It’s “holiday” time. When I was growing up, they called it Christmas. Now, in order to offend no one, they call it nothing. Sad.

Spydercrane has installed the iVISOR mentor load moment indication system, the gSENS LWG 154 cable reel, and the compact pSENS DAVS pressure transducer in its URW375 mini crawler crane.

We finally have details of the crane that overturned in the UK last week, a 100 tonne four axle All Terrain on a road in Antrobus, south of Warrington.

A Grove GTK telescopic tower crane caught fire, while working on a wind farm in northern Germany.

Terex has unveiled a new truck crane at Bauma China. The 36 tonne capacity Toplift 036G is built in Luzhou, China and features a lightweight 38 metre, five-section main boom and 14 metre swingaway jib giving a 51 metre maximum tip height.

A 3,600 tonne capacity crawler, 2,000 tonne capacity all terrain and an 800 tonne capacity lattice truck crane are just some of the highlights at the Bauma China exhibition.

WHECO Worldwide Services, North America’s leading crane and capital equipment structural repair and restoration services company, has released a free educational eBook called The Crane Accident Mitigation Manifesto about how to respond to and manage the post-accident experience.

A fire has caused the jib of a luffing jib tower crane to collapse onto a nearby building in Sydney, Australia this morning. Amazingly all of this was captured on camera.

‘Twas the night before Christmas… and all the stores were closed.