Rigging Safety

Gunnebo Johnson Corporation landed the prestigious Asian Hercules III project, together with Franklin Offshore in Singapore. Over the next twenty five months from then the crane ship will be designed, tested, manufactured and delivered. of the largest crane ships in the world – for the offshore business.

A boom truck crashed into the roof of a house in Concord New Hampshire yesterday as it attempted to lift parts of a tree from the rear garden.

A reader has sent us a fascinating video of a job in Zams, Austria, the client, a food company building a supermarket and restaurant, had to install a clear span concrete floor into an existing building. Might it also qualify for our Death Wish series though?

A report has been issued regarding the cause of the fatal 1,000 tonne crawler crane collapse in China last October. The report – or ‘final findings’ – was issued by the Jiuquan City People’s Government on December 16th, in a statement made by Jiuquan City administration secretary Yanzheng Lu.

The boom of an overturned crawler crane has completely disrupted traffic on the A-50 in the Netherlands this evening.

India’s first Manitowoc 16000 with wind attachment is currently working on one of the country’s largest wind farms, the Jasdan 100 MW project in Gujarat.

In the face of extreme challenges presented by Alpine weather and topography, a pair of Saez tower cranes was erected to help construct a new cableway station at Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s highest mountains. IC reports

Those looking skyward from the River Thames in central London, UK over the last week may have spotted a mini crawler crane being raised 283 metres to the top of The Shard tower, under construction in the city.

Swiss crane rental firm Leu used two of its Liebherr mobile cranes to construct a salt storage facility for United Swiss Salt Works (Schweizerische Rheinsalinen).

A mobile crane overturned at a parking garage site in the Simei area of Singapore yesterday. The crane’s boom came to rest on the structure of the parking deck and no one was injured in the incident.