crane industry news

The Australian third party inspection programme CraneSafe celebrated its 10th anniversary in January. The programme started in the state of Victoria, as CraneSafe was born out of the Green Sticker that was originally issued by WorkSafe Victoria.

Italian pick & carry crane manufacturer Galizia has introduced a new six tonne crane that is based on its innovative Multis 636 chassis.

NCCCO’s nationally accredited certification program recently passed a milestone: It has approved its 3,000th practical test site.

A crane operator died yesterday in Whitby Ontario, Canada, after his crane overturned on top of him. According to local news reports the man worked with Galcon Marine, who it is assumed, owned the crane. The company has a number of lattice crawler cranes, mostly Koehring and Link Belt units fitted with draglines or clamshells with capacitis of up to 50 tons.

Welsh hirer Bryn Thomas Crane is calling on an MP to stop using its name in her campaign against phoenix firms which fold to avoid paying health and safety fines.

A tower crane operator was rescued yesterday in Montreal, Canada, after he fell around five metres. The man was reportedly climbing the tower and had almost reached the cab of the 35 metre high crane, when he slipped and fell around five metres inside the tower.

More than 100 people had signed up by 20 February to attend the new Safety Issues in Wind Turbine Installation and Transportation conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany in March.

A 20 year-old man died in a crane accident at a pipe and steel distributor’s facility in Leary, Texas yesterday. The incident occurred at the Jackson Pipe and Steel Company in Leary, near Texarkana on the border with Arkansas.

A dockside crane overturned into the harbour at a Seattle, Washington shipyard today, the operator was pulled from the water with non life-threatening injuries.

A massive load of steel beams plummeted 40 stories from a crane perched atop a World Trade Center tower that is under construction Thursday morning — slamming into a flatbed truck and sending workers scrambling for cover.