Crane business

A national register for cranes does nothing to improve safety, is an unnecessary cost to construction firms and should be abolished, the British workplace health and safety regulator says.

A man was seriously injured on Friday when the jib of a luffing jib tower crane came down in Singapore. The crane was working on a site next to the National University Hospital site on South Buona Vista Road, when the failure occured.

Following the opening of four learning centers in 2011, Rigging Institute, Knoxville, Tenn., has partnered with more than a dozen rigging shops, rigging gear suppliers, and manufacturers across the country in 2012.

The 20 tonne Franna crane, belonging to Glendenning-based crane rental company Borger Cranes, was travelling down the F3 freeway at 7.30am when its boom struck the bridge.

Bishop Lifting Products (BLP), Houston, Texas, is now printing QR codes on its synthetic sling tags. The QR code is a 2-D barcode that can be scanned by a smart phone’s camera.

Manlift Middle East held an on-site safety awareness day for the contractors and sub-contractors working on a major hotel project in Abu Dhabi, this weekend.

The findings from an investigation into a serious crane and working at height incident at the Kvaerner offshore yard in Verdal, Norway last month has been published.

Operators of the Comansa crane being used on the La Pepa bridge construction in Cadiz Spain have easy and safe access to their cab via a Geda 2 PK crane-operator lift.

A Rough Terrain crane fell into a river from a temporary bridge in Osaka, Japan, killing the operator yesterday.

Word is coming in of brand new 250 tonne All Terrain crane being dropped during unloading at a port in Uruguay.