A midday construction accident on the new Bay Bridge east span Thursday toppled a crane with a 160-foot boom, sending it and part of a temporary steel trestle that was being removed plunging toward the bay.
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Eartec Wireless Headsets Coordinate Crane and Rigging Crews
by Ernie Pierini
February 22, 2013
Eartec’s latest product in its line of wireless intercoms is COMSTAR, a multi-station system that allows up to eight people to communicate in full duplex.
The boom of a barge mounted ringer crane working on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco bay, collapsed yesterday.
Liebherr will premiere its 357 HC-L 18/32 Litronic luffing jib crane at Bauma 2013. It is the successor to the 355 HC-L and has been further developed and technically optimized…
On Monday this week a relatively simple lift went expensively wrong, thanks to a contractor using a smaller crane than the job demanded.
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Certification issues for crane operators
by Ernie Pierini
February 20, 2013
There has been much discussion about the new rule governing the way cranes are operated in the USA and, in particular, the effect it might have on how crane operators are certified.
The design and fabrication experts at Lift-It Manufacturing have set another milestone in what could be considered the largest, synthetic bridle fabricated. The 108 ton rated bridle featured a 5…
The boom of a large boom truck crashed onto the roof of a home in Phoenix, Arizona, yesterday after it broke free from the superstructure.
A crane operator had a near miss yesterday in Odessa, Texas when a boom pivot pin came out. Owners of similar cranes are urged to pay particular attention to the boom and lift cylinder pivot pins.
A crane operator has died after a fall at a city centre construction site in Melbourne this morning.