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This is Gerry Wiebe creator and senior blogger at www.craneblogger.com sending you all a year end message and one last video to view before Christmas 2009.

Only about 10 percent of construction cranes in Washington state have been certified to new safety standards that take effect Jan. 1, according to the Department of Labor and Industries…

“Well, once we saw it, we saw that the horse was pretty big, and we came up with plans B, C, D, E and F,” Mohr said. Firefighters called in four engines and a special unit with a strap.

Wind power giant Vestas was the client on the project that involved placing 12 of its V90 turbines, which have a 3 MW rating. Vestas contracted rental company Usabiaga for the lifting work,

“On 20 October 2007, when the vessel M/V MAERSK MYTILINI was preparing to leave the port of Kwangyang, South Korea, a boom from a shore gantry crane detached itself and fell on to the vessel’s deck in front of the bridge.

As photographic evidence from the public pours in to state investigators, one thing is becoming clear: A lot of ordinary folks noticed that the downtown Bellevue tower construction crane was…

The Chinese cranes that I’ve seen here in Washington have reasonable workmanship.

After L&I identified three cranes built by SunCrane in Washington and learned that they weren’t up to code, the division ordered the shutdown last week.

This was this guys first and last day on the job. enjoy.