Safety

The Australian third party inspection programme CraneSafe celebrated its 10th anniversary in January. The programme started in the state of Victoria, as CraneSafe was born out of the Green Sticker that was originally issued by WorkSafe Victoria.

Welsh hirer Bryn Thomas Crane is calling on an MP to stop using its name in her campaign against phoenix firms which fold to avoid paying health and safety fines.

A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres. The man was reportedly climbing the tower and had almost reached the cab of the 35 metre high crane, when he slipped and fell around five metres inside the tower.

More than 100 people had signed up by 20 February to attend the new Safety Issues in Wind Turbine Installation and Transportation conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany in March.

A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today, the operator was pulled from the water with non life-threatening injuries.

A massive load of steel beams plummeted 40 stories from a crane perched atop a World Trade Center tower that is under construction Thursday morning — slamming into a flatbed truck and sending workers scrambling for cover.

A loader crane caught fire on Friday in Amsterdam after its boom became entangled in the overhead tram power lines.

The lattice boom and jib of a crawler crane came crasing down onto a jail in Grand Rapids, Michigan yesterday, three men were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

A gantry crane used to install section of the new Port Mann Bridge has suffered a partial collapse.

A tower crane fell around 36 storeys yesterday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, after some of the crane’s counterweight fell off.