Safety

A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A crawler crane operating with long boom and jib flipped over backwards on a construction site in Singapore yesterday. No was injured in the incident.

A loader crane operator died after the boom of the crane he was operating came in to contact with overhead power lines, in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) today made available a national CCO certification program for Lift Directors.

The Crane & Rigging Hot Line & CIC Crane Operator Skills Competition continues its cross-country trek to round up the best crane operators in the West and Southeast. From October until March 2014.

German crane rental company Scholpp has issued a statement regarding the overturn of one of its cranes while lifting 16 people in a gondola on June 22nd.

Lunchtime diners had an amazing escape when a huge crane smashed through the roof of a McDonald’s restaurant Friday.

A 600 t capacity Terex® CC 2800-1 crawler crane owned by Universal Cranes Pty – one of the largest privately owned crane hire companies in Australia – installed one of three communication antennae, part of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. (CDSCC).

A Rough Terrain crane working on Interstate highway I17 near Bumble Bee, to the north of Phoenix, Arizona, overturned yesterday.

Three cranes dismantled whilst foundations checked and strengthened