Rigging Safety

A man was seriously injured in Calgary on Thursday after he was crushed by a lattice boom section being loaded onto a truck.

Huisman has installed and load tested its 17 m super fly jib for one of the heavy lift mast cranes onboard BigLift Shipping’s Happy Buccaneer

A 40 tonne crawler crane fell, the boom coming down on an area where people were working, at Broad Construction’s $50 million (£33 million) redevelopment of Mt Sheridan Plaza, Cairns, Australia. Fortunately no one was injured.

In Oklahoma, wind turbines are now about as prevalent as old oil derricks were in days gone by. Much easier on the eyes, the sleek, white turbines punctuate the horizon and provide clean electricity for thousands of homes and businesses. Wind farms have been or are being built throughout Oklahoma, especially on prairie land west and north of Oklahoma City.

A new one day conference and networking event has been announced for the wind turbine erection and transport industry. Safety Issues in Wind Turbine Installation and Transportation will be on 14 March 2012 in Hamburg, Germany

The National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO) announced that it has been awarded accreditation by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for two of its newest certification programs.

The company responsible for the work being undertaken by the crane that tipped at Tate Modern last month – McGee Demolition – has issued a statement and guidance for use by its site staff, subcontractors and suppliers.

The investigation into the upending of a mobile crane at the Tate Modern gallery in London last month has identified human error as the likely cause, with the wrong basic data possibly entered into the crane’s computer.

Three men were rescued from a truck crane after the it tipped over rearwards, leaving the men stranded in the carrier cab around eight metres or more off the ground.

Oilfield services company 5J Trucking, used its two new Sany America crawler cranes to lift a 90,000 pound (41 tonne) oil derrick.