Safety

As photographic evidence from the public pours in to state investigators, one thing is becoming clear: A lot of ordinary folks noticed that the downtown Bellevue tower construction crane was…

The Chinese cranes that I’ve seen here in Washington have reasonable workmanship.

The accident happened at about 4:10 p.m. when the 30-tonne tower crane fell from the 50th floor of Taishang Building in Dongguan city. The crane broke through three stories in the basement and finally landed, a municipal government spokesman said.

The Specialized Carriers & Rigging Association (SC&RA) recently issued two Crane & Rigging Group Project Safety Awards in October.

Yesterday two workers died when they fell 50 feet in a elevator car attached to the crane.

random-cranesThe board of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in the UK, has approved new regulations governing the use of tower cranes following a three-month comment period.

Basel, Switzerland A Wolff tower crane jib, apparently being dismantled, was dropped due to stability problems with the mobile crane. The Tower crane jib will be a total loss, as well as the mobile crane boom and luffing jib.

You call that a hedge trimmer? Now, this is a hedge trimmer. Well, it’s actually a riding mower suspended by a crane, but it works just as well. Apparently, it…

A Weightron Bilancial crane scale system is helping Virgin Atlantic Airways keep track of the loads being handled at its Heathrow maintenance hangar. Supplied by Street CraneXpress (SCX), the crane…

A crane toppled over while removing an oak tree from the yard of Michelle and Kevin McCarthy in Santa Rosa, California.