Crane business

An operator escaped injury yesterday after his crane slid off of the road and rolled on to its side near Manning, Oregon.

A man received a massive electric shock earlier today in Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, after the crane he grabbed the hook of a lattice crawler crane that was working next to a 23,000 volt high tension overhead power line.

A reader in the USA has sent us a photograph of an old crane that perhaps one of you can identify?

Liebherr is providing four free one day training courses in the UK on covering the influence of wind on crane operations.

The Gottwald HMK260E (pictured here) is capable of lifting up to 100 tonnes with all the speed and accuracy needed when handling high value project cargo.

The latest casualty of wind those farm roads that are unsuited for cranes or big aerial lifts is a 103 metre WT1000 truck mounted aerial lift which rolled at the Gordonbush wind farm in Scotland.

Contractor Bowmer & Kirkland has been fined £280,000 for the 2009 collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool that left the operators paralysed. Structural engineer Bingham Davis, which has since ceased trading, was also found culpable and fined a nominal £1,000.

A 100 tonne crane boom buckled while lifting bridge beams in Northern Norway earlier this week. The crane, owned by Vest Kran, was working from a massive barge, installing a new bridge in Vikan, near Bodø when the incident occurred. No one was injured.

Two UK contractors, Bowmer & Kirkland and Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws following the collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool in 2009. They will be sentenced on Friday.

A crane operator died yesterday after the boom truck he was operating overturned at the dockside in Seward, Alaska. The operator, Feliz Morales, 52, was reportedly lifting nets from a boat, when his crane overturned, he was pronounced dead at the scene.