Ernie Pierini

The family of a crane operator killed in a 2008 Upper East Side tower crane collapse is furious that the equipment’s millionaire owner has opted for a non-jury manslaughter trial.

A sheriff in Scotland has finally issued a ruling on an fatal road accident in which a mother and her two young daughters were killed, after their car skidded on hydraulic oil that had leaked from a mobile crane.

Three people were seriously injured in Norway yesterday after falling between 35 and 40 metres from a man basket suspended from a crane.

Sometimes sales go wrong. And when they do, salespeople blame someone or something. “He wouldn’t return my call,” “he took the lowest bid,” “he bought from the competition,” “he said my price was too high”… BLAME.

International lifting gear specialist Modulift Group, has issued a safety warning regarding the use of counterfeit spreader beam elements.

Information has come in concerning a large lattice crawler crane that tipped in Hollywood Florida on Wednesday evening.

The boom of a 200 tonne lattice crawler crane dropped its load and collapsed onto a boom lift and barge in Nova Scotia on Thursday.

Zaren Baldacchino, 59, was visiting his son on a Sliema construction site yesterday morning when the steel wire of a tower crane snapped and its metal hook fell on him, killing him on the spot.

We have new information about the company operating the crane that tipped over Wednesday at Deaconess Hospital. The crane was removing a cooling tower from the hospital roof when it tipped and slammed into some cars.

Abu Dhabi Municipality is stepping up its efforts to improve crane safety by calling on contracting companies and construction consultants to regularly check that the cranes and lifting equipment working on their sites is safe to use and has a third party test certificate – a requirement since the end of October.