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The 40-foot wall of sand and clay where a portion of Route 136 collapsed Thursday is so unstable that the motor of a crane that plunged from the road to the river is still running.

More than 180 Potain tower cranes, Grove mobile cranes and Manitowoc crawler cranes are helping build the world’s largest women-only university in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, according to a news release.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published a new standard regarding the use of cranes and derricks in construction. Recognizing that more than 250,000 construction, contracting and equipment rental companies, employing almost five million workers, will be affected by the new rules

Pottier said Lead Structural let three tower cranes spin freely during hurricane Juan in 2003 and none sustained any damage as a result of the storm, which left a deadly swath of destruction in its wake. “Left unpinned, they’re free to spin

A man was injured in Gedling, Nottingham yesterday after a crane lifting a hot tub off the back of a delivery truck and into position tipped. The 20 year old man – who was helping deliver the hot tub – was trapped against the wall of a bungalow while the crane boom landed on the bungalow roof and the hot tub landed in the garden.

A 42 year old man, Michael Parsons, was killed and another injured as they were storing the crane for the night, reports say that “something fell from the crane and landed on the two men

The 12 tonne Hydra crane built by ACE, reportedly lifting a two tonne concrete pile, when the ground under its front wheels subsided causing it to tip over sideways with the three section boom dropping across the busy road. Officials from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation immediately blamed the incident on operator negligence

International Tower Cranes 2011 is a new top-level one day conference and networking dinner for tower crane users and manufacturers worldwide. ITC 2011 will be held in central London, UK on 12 May 2011. Organised by KHL Group, publisher of International Cranes and Specialized Transport,

One man died and two were injured when a boom truck dropped a large beam that it was placing on a site in Burnaby, near Vancouver, Canada

Bigge Crane and Rigging has added two new models to its large crane rental fleet, the Grove RT9130 rough terrain crane and Liebherr LR 1600/2 crawler crane. Several of each model are available for both nationwide bare rental and operated and maintained rental.