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Six people died and one was injured on Saturday after a tower crane came down in Dandong City, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, close to the North Korean border. Six men were apparently working on the 50 metre crane when it went over on a construction site in the Zhenxing District. Four died at the scene, while the other two died later in hospital according to a statement from the local authorities.

“The public is in danger every day.” That’s the accusation of insider who say the state is ignoring risky construction practices. The KOMO 4 Problem Solvers investigated and found several instances where both workers and the public were at risk.

A Romanian Self Erecting Tower Crane tips and strikes three cars. Up to now we have no reports as to fatalities or injuries from the crane tipping, we will continue to monitor this situation and update as information comes in.

The Calgary Zoo is coming alive. Starting in about a month , visitors strolling through the prehistoric park will be introduced to some new residents, the move into their new digs were assisted by some rather large moving equipment provided by Stampede Crane and Rigging.

This video shows a Spierings self erecting mobile tower crane setting up ready for work, while always something to stare and marvel at this video shows something a little different. All is not as it may at first seem.

A runaway crane smashed into a bus yesterday in Taiwan killing four people – three women and a man – and injuring a further eight. There were a total of 16 passengers on the bus. The accident involving a dated four axle truck crane, occurred in Guishan, Taoyuan County

An All Terrain crane owned and operated by the Budapest Fire department turned over on Wednesday while lifting artwork into Buda castle. The crane a four axle Tadano Faun ATF 60-4, working over the rear, had just lifted a crate of Munkácsy paintings in to the castle by way of its large balcony.

  We have been sent a time lapse video of a 16 storey hotel and spa being built in just over 90 hours thanks to lots of labour long working…

The superstructure of a Liebherr LTR 11200 crawler crane has been mounted on an offshore jack-up barge for wind farm work. Danish based ship owner DBB Jack-Up Services A/S worked with Liebherr on the mounting of the 1,200 tonne capacity LTR 11200 superstructure to a pedestal on its self-propelled jack-up barge the Wind.

The lack of any tower crane manufacturers at what was meant to be SAIE’s bi-annual tower crane year was a sign of the difficult economic conditions that still exist in Italy. Major manufacturers like Liebherr and Terex chose not to attend October’s annual exhibition held in Bologna, Italy either, although the latter was represented by a distributor