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A tower crane accident occurred in Cologne this weekend causing damage to a building and a car below, but thankfully no injuries were reported. We have few details on the accident, which occurred in the Rudolfplatz in central Cologne on Saturday.

They demand attention, these marvels of machinery. Below, a thousand workers might weld steel, lay bricks and juggle a thousand other jobs, but the eye strays up to the cranes. Specifically, these are tower cranes, inverted L-shaped behemoths that are helping to build Parkview Regional Medical Center and add a fifth floor to Lutheran Hospital.

October 21, 2010—Daniel Erwin, the safety director and risk manager for Southern Industrial Constructors and Southern Crane, Raleigh, N.C., recently presented an overview of CSA 2010, the Federal Motor Carriers Safety Administration’s current safety initiative.

Crane operators in British Columbia must have a valid operator’s certificate by February 28, 2011. Any operator not certified by February 28 cannot legally operate a crane in British Columbia. There are still many operators who have not been assessed and time and resources are limited.

The structure of the new Sky Train transit network is taking shape at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix. When complete, the elevated rail system will transfer passengers between the airport’s busiest terminal, Terminal 4, and the Metro Light Rail station and East parking lots.

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

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.

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.

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.