Rigging Safety

Liebherr Great Britain is adding a new Thorough Examination of Mobile Cranes training course at its training centre in Biggleswade, England.

The Bloomberg administration is considering letting operators of giant tower cranes get their license without any prior New York City experience — a sensitive topic in a city where cranes have collapsed and dropped loads of steel near busy sidewalks.

New York City is ordering contractors to lighten the weight carried by cranes across the city on the heels of an accident at the World Trade Center last month in which a crane cable snapped, dropping thousands of pounds of steel 40 stories and crushing a flatbed truck, according to DNAinfo.com.

Mike Parnell, president and CEO of Industrial Training International, Woodland, Wash., is the latest in a series of high-profile speakers to confirm their services to MCM Events’ second Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada, which will return to Edmonton, Alberta, and it will be held at the Sutton Place Hotel on Sept. 13-14, 2012.

Earlier this month a new tower bolt suffered a catastrophic failure, the crane was working at the time and the initial report suggested that the failure was caused by fatigue, even though it was new.

A small crawler crane has overturned while working on the demolition of earthquake damaged buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday.

The jury in the inquest into the deaths of two men killed when a tower crane collapsed in Battersea London in 2006, has returned a ‘Narrative Verdict’.

Two men escaped with burns after the boom of their loader crane contacted overhead power lines on a site near Alor Setar in Malaysia on Tuesday.

An investigation into the faulty World Trade Center crane that dropped a load of steel beams from 40 stories above ground on Feb. 16 might take several months to complete, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) has agreed that basic electronic calculators can now be permitted for use on certain CCO written exams.