Safety

The order came after Dura Vermeer noticed that working speeds and load weights were increasing.

MECHANICAL failure in the jib during commissioning caused the boom structure of a tower crane to come crashing down on BHP’s Worsley Alumina Refinery project near Collie, WA, on January 13, 2010.

The city of Redding could face more than $26,000 in fines for Monday’s crane collapse.

The G90 was acquired by Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, which built and maintains the cathedral, along with the works of art inside.

“Is the crane safe to operate? That’s our first question,” said Charles Lemon, L & I’s Crane Safety Manager. “And if we find it is safe to operate, we will give them an abatement date, maybe two weeks or so

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A man died after a one-ton crane toppled onto him in a mishap at a printing company in southwest Houston last night.

Only about 10 percent of construction cranes in Washington state have been certified to new safety standards that take effect Jan. 1, according to the Department of Labor and Industries…

“On 20 October 2007, when the vessel M/V MAERSK MYTILINI was preparing to leave the port of Kwangyang, South Korea, a boom from a shore gantry crane detached itself and fell on to the vessel’s deck in front of the bridge.

SCDF had to use an airbag and another crane to extricate the trapped worker.