Lifting Safety

Last week, crane industry representatives and OSHA met about changes to the crane operator testing and certification requirements.

An All Terrain crane crashed through the roof of a shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa this morning seriously injuring a man.

More than 200 people recently attended an open house event organized by Pensacola-based Deep South Crane Rentals, Inc. (DSC) to mark the arrival of the company’s new 600 ton Terex® AC 500-2 All Terrain Crane.

A crane overturned at a job site on the University of Maryland Baltimore County campus yesterday, after the outriggers appeared to have shifted on soft ground.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) previously announced two informal stakeholder meetings to solicit comments on the crane operator certification requirements in the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standard.…

When testing a crane or other lifting device, make sure the tools used in the testing procedure are Certified and have been tested as well.

Bath Iron Works, ME.-based company and a subsidiary of General Dynamics Corporation has been building warships for the U.S. Navy for 128 years. This past December, Bath Iron Works broke its own heaviest lift record using two Manitowoc 16000 crawler cranes to pick nearly 1,000 USt – more than double the weight previously lifted by the shipyard.

A small city type crane overturned near Plymouth, in south west England yesterday.

Sennebogen, which also builds material handlers, port equipment and lifting cranes, is using this month’s Bauma exhibition in Munich, Germany, to take the wraps off a new 130 tonne duty cycle crawler crane, the 6130 HD.

The cranes, named the GMK4100S, were built at the request of German rental company Dornseiff, based in Burbach, to meet the demand to perform heavy lifts indoors.