crane industry news

The jury in the inquest into the deaths of two men killed when a tower crane collapsed in Battersea London in 2006, has returned a ‘Narrative Verdict’.

Two men escaped with burns after the boom of their loader crane contacted overhead power lines on a site near Alor Setar in Malaysia on Tuesday.

An investigation into the faulty World Trade Center crane that dropped a load of steel beams from 40 stories above ground on Feb. 16 might take several months to complete, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has agreed that basic electronic calculators can now be permitted for use on certain CCO written exams.

New from Boscaro and Eagle West Cranes & Equipment is a multi-function 5 in 1 concrete bucket which allows users the flexibility of owning one bucket for several applications.

A crane which collapsed killing two people was loaded with four extra tonnes of weight because the owners used the wrong manual, an inquest heard yesterday.

The inquest into the deaths of two men in the 2006 tower crane collapse in Battersea, London, UK will open today.

The largest lifting capacity crawler crane in the country is now helping Mace build the Emirates Air Line cable car crossing over the Thames in London.

Millionaire construction magnate James Lomma tried to wiggle through a semantic loophole today in his manslaughter trial for the fatal 2008 crane collapse on 91st Street — by calling an admittedly-faulty metal part a “replacement,” not a “repair.”

A former Department of Buildings big testified Monday that she considered filing criminal charges against crane owner James Lomma months before his rig collapsed, killing two Manhattan hardhats.