Lifting Safety

Iain Gillham, the tower crane operator critically injured when his crane collapsed in Liverpool, UK, in 2009 has won a £2.7 million out of court settlement. Gillham, a site manager…

Manitowoc’s largest crane the 2,300 tonne capacity 31000 crawler crane has completed it largest lift to date picking and carrying a 650 tonne cold box at a liquefied natural gas plant in Gwangyang, South Korea.

The World Crane and Transport Summit 2013 opened on 29 October to an international audience in Amsterdam, Netherlands. More than 250 industry professionals registered for the event at the Hotel Krasnapolsky in central Amsterdam.

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.

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.

MacGregor, part of Cargotec, has received an order for two MacGregor active heave-compensated (AHC) offshore cranes from a Turkish shipyard.

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.

A boom truck/truck crane overturned yesterday while lifting an air conditioning unit in Salt Lake City, Utah.