Safety

A sheriff in Scotland has finally issued a ruling on an fatal road accident in which a mother and her two young daughters were killed, after their car skidded on hydraulic oil that had leaked from a mobile crane.

International lifting gear specialist Modulift Group, has issued a safety warning regarding the use of counterfeit spreader beam elements.

Information has come in concerning a large lattice crawler crane that tipped in Hollywood Florida on Wednesday evening.

The boom of a 200 tonne lattice crawler crane dropped its load and collapsed onto a boom lift and barge in Nova Scotia on Thursday.

We have new information about the company operating the crane that tipped over Wednesday at Deaconess Hospital. The crane was removing a cooling tower from the hospital roof when it tipped and slammed into some cars.

Abu Dhabi Municipality is stepping up its efforts to improve crane safety by calling on contracting companies and construction consultants to regularly check that the cranes and lifting equipment working on their sites is safe to use and has a third party test certificate – a requirement since the end of October.

Crane simulators allow operators to experience a range of challenging conditions in one day that could take many years in the workplace. Euan Youdale talks to Arnold Free, CMLabs chief operating officer, about the simulator market

A man in his 20s is dead this morning after he and a group of friends broke into a job site in Manly, Sydney, Australia just after midnight and climbed a 40 metre tower crane.

A boom truck crashed into the roof of a house in Concord New Hampshire yesterday as it attempted to lift parts of a tree from the rear garden.

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening.