Safety

The scaffold was being erected by a scaffold company called Red Lion, next to the Canon Street railway station near St Pauls in the City of London. Our corresponded says: “One man was wearing a harness but was not using it the other on the scaffold had no harness or hard hat.

A 240 ton All Terrain crane went over late last week at a Chevron Refinery in Pascagoula, Mississippi, due to a lack of communication and full walk around daily inspection. The initial reports state that the crane’s outriggers had been retracted on the left hand side of the crane by a second shift, in order to take them out of a roadway during the night.

As far as the construction sites are concerned, the availability of the mobile cranes ensures implementation of these types of heavy tasks to give the workers some relief. Whereas the counter balance lift truck is an equipment that is concerned with loading and unloading different goods and products from one place to another.

That time has come and gone and there is still nothing substantial from OSHA to help people better understand the new ruling,” Thurman said. “We’re not trying to push back the effective date of the ruling. We support the new rules. We just want to give people a chance to understand them.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published a new standard regarding the use of cranes and derricks in construction. Recognizing that more than 250,000 construction, contracting and equipment rental companies, employing almost five million workers, will be affected by the new rules

Pottier said Lead Structural let three tower cranes spin freely during hurricane Juan in 2003 and none sustained any damage as a result of the storm, which left a deadly swath of destruction in its wake. “Left unpinned, they’re free to spin

The CPA has sent a letter from the Heath and Safety Executive to its members highlighting potential problems of using cranes in high cycle applications, following an incident in Aberdeen when the boom snapped on a mobile crane. The incident in Aberdeen harbour was recently investigated by the HSE and involved a conventional 100 tonne mobile crane being used for loading supply vessels.

Typically the operators did not attend a union apprenticeship program, and has simply gained knowledge about cranes from an in-house process, sometimes rather hand-me-down.

The committee completed its task in July 2004 and the Rule will be published in the Federal Register on 9 August 2010, and is effective 90 days after publication on 8 November 2010.

A crane hire company has been fined after the hook broke off a tower crane and its four tonne load crashed 36 metres to the ground, narrowly missing a footpath.