Safety

NCCER will host an academy for safety management professionals September 19-25, 2009 at Clemson University, Clemson, SC.

Another self erecting tower crane went over this week in Switzerland, no one was injured in either case.

A self erecting tower crane tipped over at a building site in Oetwil, near Zurich, Switzerland yesterday there were no injuries.

A second person has died following the collapse of a stage being constructed for a Madonna concert in France.

A stage being built in France for a concert by pop star Madonna has collapsed, killing one worker and injuring six. Technicians had been setting up the stage at the…

Crane Operator rescued from crane and what you should be doing about it.

The crane accident in liver pool last week is now being cleaned-up.

A metro rail construction site is seen after several cranes crashed in New Delhi, July 13. Three cranes crashed Monday while trying to lift a steel girder that had fallen at New Delhi’s metro rail construction site, a new blow to the project a day after the first accident left six people dead.

The Texas Street bridge has been reopened after a crane did not clear the first truss of the bridge, causing the arm of the boom to become detached and fall on top of a Nissan Altima traveling behind it

Here is some scary footage of unsafe crane practices that result in a car being crushed. From the looks of the video it appears no one was injured, thankfully.