Crane Safety

Jamie Kirchen was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He was removing the slings from the pallet when the unsecured joists on which he was standing gave way under the weight of the load.was standing on timber joists on the top of the first storey of a building and was directing the crane operator to land a pallet of timber flooring onto the joists. He suffered multiple fractures including to his pelvis and lost part of his bowel.

That time has come and gone and there is still nothing substantial from OSHA to help people better understand the new ruling,” Thurman said. “We’re not trying to push back the effective date of the ruling. We support the new rules. We just want to give people a chance to understand them.

A number of train passengers were injured yesterday in Hong Kong when the 40 metre boom of a Rough Terrain crane struck the carriages of a light rail transit and brought down overhead power lines after it tipped over.

A fire broke out at a steel facility in Fort Wayne, Indiana after a crane boom came into contact with high tension overhead power lines yesterday.

Pottier said Lead Structural let three tower cranes spin freely during hurricane Juan in 2003 and none sustained any damage as a result of the storm, which left a deadly swath of destruction in its wake. “Left unpinned, they’re free to spin

A man was injured in Gedling, Nottingham yesterday after a crane lifting a hot tub off the back of a delivery truck and into position tipped. The 20 year old man – who was helping deliver the hot tub – was trapped against the wall of a bungalow while the crane boom landed on the bungalow roof and the hot tub landed in the garden.

A 42 year old man, Michael Parsons, was killed and another injured as they were storing the crane for the night, reports say that “something fell from the crane and landed on the two men

The CPA has sent a letter from the Heath and Safety Executive to its members highlighting potential problems of using cranes in high cycle applications, following an incident in Aberdeen when the boom snapped on a mobile crane. The incident in Aberdeen harbour was recently investigated by the HSE and involved a conventional 100 tonne mobile crane being used for loading supply vessels.

The crane a three axle truck mount, owned by locally based RH Marlin, was set up in the gravel garden to the rear of the Rathskeller restaurant at the Athenaeum building in the 400 block of East Michigan street.

A crane tipped over this morning on a road improvement project in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The crane, a Franna pick & carry model was unloading or moving a reinforcing bar cage for a pile when it tipped.