Crane business

A large All Terrain crane overturned on Saturday on a ‘brownfield’ construction site in Johor Baru in southern Malaysia.

Gibdock has completed a containership crane refurbishment for a German owner. The deck crane work called for certification of strict welding procedures by Lloyd’s Register (LR), which approved all materials used.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is inviting members of the public to give feedback on the use of Data Loggers for Mobile Cranes.

“If they had stuck to their verbal agreement, none of this (action) would need to have happened,” the CFMEU say. “Instead, they knowingly had information in relation to safety tests on the crane and withheld it.”

Alliance Scale, Canton, Mass., has introduced a heavy-duty, portable crane scale with a wireless remote control for a wide range of material-handling applications.

A crane driver had a miraculous escape yesterday in West Hollywood, California after his pick & carry crane overturned into the lower levels of a new building.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has launch its new Committed to Crane Safety program, which was dveloped by NCCCO to recognize employers who have demonstrated their commitment to safety by hiring CCO-certified personnel.

This week at its CraneFest, Link-Belt debuted the RTC-8080 Series II rough-terrain crane, featuring 80 tons of capacity, a full-power, four-section boom, and the Link-Belt Pulse total crane operating system.

A mobile crane overturned yesterday on the top of Toppu Dam in Hokkaido, Northern Japan and hung over the edge of the dam with the operator trapped inside the upside down cab.

31 companies have been fined in Singapore in the governments for first crack down on poor safety practices during lifting operations.