Safety

Working in construction sites has always been considered as hazardous. In the period between 1997 and 1999, there were 158 accidents which can be considered as crane-related. 73 percent of these crane related accidents involved mobile cranes. Of this number, 10 accidents were caused by electrical contact. This gives people the importance of electrical grounding of mobile cranes.

A young Rough Terrain crane operator died earlier this week in Arizona, when the crane ran-away’ and overturned. The operator,28, was driving the crane, described as a 100 ton Rough Terrain – although it is substantially smaller – down a dirt track in a granite quarry in Congress, to the North West of Phoenix Arizona.

A reader sent us in a good example that occurred this week on a job site at Southmead hospital, Bristol in the UK. While it does not directly involve a crane or work platform the cautionary tale is equally relevant.

A concrete pump was in action on the site and appeared to have been set properly and according to the contractor’s – Carillion – safety requirements.

Mobile cranes are usually noticed in construction sites. Because the title signifies, it can be a machine that can travel from one spot to another even surface types that are irregular. A whole lot involving huge construction organizations are investing on mobile cranes due to its adaptability.

The UK’s crane rental association – the Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) – has issued a Technical Information Note, a letter and a declaration form to help UK crane rental companies overcome customer demands for a four year overload test that is no longer required or recommended.

The Connecticut Department of Public Safety issued a statement yesterday regarding an Illegal operation and an arrest. The statement is as follows:  “On May 10, 2011 at approximately 1:30 p.m.…

In some cases, developing a creative lifting solution truly is a matter of life and death. In the fall of 2010, Baltimore’s University of Maryland Medical School Trauma Center project faced the challenges typical to tower crane use in an urban setting: a lack of space, traffic and wind.

With the help of a Terex CC2500-1 lattice boom crawler crane, Riga Baumann GmbH lowered a tunnel boring machine, complete with cutter head, into position in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Arbor Realty Funding, the lender at the site of a fatal 2008 crane collapse in Turtle Bay, has filed a $69 million malpractice suit against Herrick Feinstein, alleging the law firm provided bad advice about the zoning regulations for the planned 42-story tower.

A reader sent us the attached example from Malta of cribbing under outriggers that leaves a great deal to be desired. Certainly a Death Wish.