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Hydrospex’s new BSET heavy lifting tower, developed initially for Columbus, Mississippi-based Burkhalter, promises to overcome all of these obstacles.

A new attachment for Manitowoc’s Model 16000 crawler crane will boost the machine’s lifting capacity, enabling it to erect the latest wind turbines

An eight-storey health centre with a nine-storey parkade that will eventually serve a million patients a year on the university campus

Mr. Vecchio was an employee with the City of Sault Ste. Marie Board of Works and was working on an excavation project at the landfill site area at the time of the incident

The register has been created following concerns over crane safety in Britain. Tower crane collapses have killed eight people in the past 10 years, including a member of the public, and injured many more.

“Or we could erect a topless crane with a shorter jib that would swing underneath the crane that was already erected. We chose the second option.”

A 20 year old tractor driver also died at the scene, but it is unclear if he was in his vehicle at the time and how it relates to the crane accident. Local reports say that the crane collapsed from its base and that the weather was very stormy at the time with strong winds

The new 200 tonne Liebherr is the 12th crane in the fleet, which also includes an LTM 1030, LTM 1055, LTM 1060, and a LTM 1100. The expanding fleet also includes truck mounted hydraulic cranes, city class cranes and specialised mini crawler cranes.

Hungarian crane company Ács-Gép Generál Zrt is working on two major construction projects for the country’s capital using its fleet of tower cranes.

The DVD aims to “raise the awareness of safe practices which can avoid potential risks at all stages of tower crane climbing and aims at driving improvements across the industry to rule out incidents”.