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Crane service provider Felbermayr recently replaced four gigantic whey tanks at Sachsenmilch GmbH’s Leppersdorf facility, where the Terex AC 1000 all terrain crane proved to be the ideal machine for…
An accident in Gillingham, UK, demonstrated the importance of agreeing whether a client or lift contractor is responsible for planning lifting operations, says the UK Health and Safety Executive.
In the USA the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined crane operator Harrison Hoist US$ 29,400 and charged the firm with six serious safety violations following the fatal tower crane collapse at the University of Texas in Dallas in July.
WorkCover New South Wales – Australia hosted a tower crane safety roundtable on Tuesday, following the fire and jib collapse last week.
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC, (SRNS) Aiken, S.C., operates with an award-winning safety culture, and the Savannah River Site (SRS) houses one of the world’s most diverse nuclear storage facilities.…
We finally have details of the crane that overturned in the UK last week, a 100 tonne four axle All Terrain on a road in Antrobus, south of Warrington.
A Grove GTK telescopic tower crane caught fire, while working on a wind farm in northern Germany.
Harrison Hoist employees were dismantling the crane when it went over causing two erectors to fall around 50 metres to the ground – both died from their injuries.
Over 40 contractor delegates attended a special IPAF half day seminar today at London’s Heathrow airport Terminal 5, in order to discuss the specifying of anti-entrapment devices on boom lifts.
Rush hour motorists had a lucky escape on Tuesday evening when a crane’s trailing boom dolly overturned on highway 101 near Santa Barbara, California.