Crane business

The Daily Mail has reported that a female crane operator survived a 100m fall from the top of a 33-storey building and survived. Two co-workers died in the collapse.

A tower crane should only be erected or dismantled and tested by competent persons, i.e. an engineer and erection crew trained in the erection and dismantling of that type of tower crane.

German crane rental company Eisele used a pair of 500 tonne capacity Liebherr LTM 1500-8.1 mobile cranes to lift and place 275 concrete bridge beams on a Frankfurt airport expansion project

Japanese crane manufacturer Kobelco Cranes will build crawler cranes in India.

One of our English readers spotted one of the craziest operators we have seen since starting our Death Wish series – in France.

Let’s face it; building sites are generally pretty grim places to work. A bleak landscape with heat, dust and occupational hazards are quite the industry norm out here.

In spite of a number of fatal accidents people are still setting up lifts in the street without proper cordoning off.

Operator information systems are moving with the times to provide accessible data in busier working environments for more advanced and larger cranes.

A four axle truck crane dropped its boom across two houses after the ground gave way under one of its rear outriggers.

UK-based King Lifting used a 130 tonne capacity all terrain crane to lift a ferry from the Serpentine river in Hyde Park, London.