Crane Safety

Heavy load specialist Schmidbauer engineered a tandem jacket lift using two 750t Liebherr crawler cranes at an offshore terminal in Bremerhaven, Germany.

On Friday, Dec. 7, the FCOC is conducting a one-day panel discussion on OSHA’s new crane operator certification law that becomes effective in November 2014. The panel is open to all crane owners.

The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has posted on its website a letter of interpretation, clarifying whether or not a practical test is required for recertification of crane operators.

Engineering service provider Penglai Jutal recently lifted a 470-tonne steel framework as part of the assembly of an offshore oil platform on the coast of Penglai in China.

An operator was injured yesterday after his crane overturned, while lifting a shipping container from a truck outside a school in Bradenton, Florida.

A large All Terrain crane overturned on Saturday on a ‘brownfield’ construction site in Johor Baru in southern Malaysia.

Gibdock has completed a containership crane refurbishment for a German owner. The deck crane work called for certification of strict welding procedures by Lloyd’s Register (LR), which approved all materials used.

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) is inviting members of the public to give feedback on the use of Data Loggers for Mobile Cranes.

“If they had stuck to their verbal agreement, none of this (action) would need to have happened,” the CFMEU say. “Instead, they knowingly had information in relation to safety tests on the crane and withheld it.”

Alliance Scale, Canton, Mass., has introduced a heavy-duty, portable crane scale with a wireless remote control for a wide range of material-handling applications.