Crane Safety

A man died yesterday on a building site in the small village of Cártama to the north of Málaga, after the jib of a tower crane ‘broke its back’ and crashed down onto the scaffold he was working from, throwing him from the third floor of the structure to the ground.

Russian construction contractor OAO Metrostroy put its Terex CTT 331-16 flat top tower crane to the test during a 150 m high cooling tower build in Saint Petersburg. Local distributor JSC GRPM supplied the 16 tonne capacity crane for use at the federal power station where the 120 m diameter cooling tower is part of a project to replace the existing 1973 facility.

Conducting crane inspections according to the new OSHA 1926.1400 crane regulation requires that the inspector also be familiar with many other standards. Among the standards the regulation has incorporated by reference is ASME B30.5 (2004). The full list of incorporated by reference documents are listed in 1926.6.

A crane operator has been fined £2,500 and his employer £4,500 following a fatal accident in the UK in 2007. The accident occurred on a site in Liverpool in March 2007. Mark Thornton, 46, was working as crane supervisor for his employer Sitwell Construction, when the 50 tonne crane he was directing tipped over due to overloading. The load, a six tonne steel column, struck Thornton killing him instantly.

Recently introduced the Spectrum D radio controller featuring a 3.5-inch color screen— a new feature now offered on radio remote controls used for operating a variety of cranes, such as knuckleboom cranes or overhead cranes.

Following the successful completion of a one-day conference during ConExpo-Con/Agg in Las Vegas last month,Maximum Capacity Media announces the dates for the second Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) and Reach Expo to be held this summer. The event returns to Houston, Texas, July 19-20,

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Portable roadway rental company Lion Trackhire provided a temporary track for a 1200 t crawler crane working at London’s 2012 Olympic Village site earlier this year. The crane, supplied by Ainscough Crane Hire, was being used to lift cooling equipment onto the roof of the new Marks and Spencer department store that is being built as part of the Olympic Village complex.

Liebherr will launch the 85 EC-B 5 FR.tronic flat top city crane at the SMOPyC exhibition in Spain next week. The crane has a 5 tonne load capacity and can lift 1.3 tonnes at the jib end, up to a maximum working radius of 50 m. All loads are lifted in double-reeve mode

A Rough Terrain crane tipped over yesterday by the side of the river in St Joseph Michigan. The operator escaped with minor leg injuries. The crane went over sideways at the Pier 33 Marina trapping the operator, Walton Dohner in the cab upside down hanging over the St Joseph river. The photos suggest that one of the outrigger beams was not fully extended on the side the crane tipped.