Competitors in the Crane & Rigging Hot Line & CIC Crane Operator Skills Championship next March in Las Vegas, Nev., will be operating in comfort and style.
Crane Safety
Spotted by a reader in Perth, Western Australia, men riding the load on a new build construction site.
A lattice truck crane overturned yesterday in Maplewood, near Minneapolis/St Paul, Minnesota trapping the crane operator in his cab.
Almost half of building sites checked by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) failed basic checks particularly when working at height.
A crane operator in Bordeaux, France, had a lucky escape on Tuesday after the ground collapsed under one of his outriggers and his load caught on the building.
Crane overturn in Salt Lake City
A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.
A tower crane collapsed at the site of a new hotel in Dubai on Saturday killing three and seriously injuring a further five.
Big crawler overturns in Singapore
A crawler crane operating with long boom and jib flipped over backwards on a construction site in Singapore yesterday. No was injured in the incident.
A helicopter was used to dismantle a Potain MDT 128 flat top tower crane from a 200 metre tall bridge pylon in Norway.
A loader crane operator died after the boom of the crane he was operating came in to contact with overhead power lines, in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.