Safety

A warning has been issued by the KBR Building Group, which counts Boeing among its clients, concerning a brand of Chinese sling sold under the S-Line label.

A midday construction accident on the new Bay Bridge east span Thursday toppled a crane with a 160-foot boom, sending it and part of a temporary steel trestle that was being removed plunging toward the bay.

Eartec’s latest product in its line of wireless intercoms is COMSTAR, a multi-station system that allows up to eight people to communicate in full duplex.

The boom of a barge mounted ringer crane working on the Bay Bridge in San Francisco bay, collapsed yesterday.

On Monday this week a relatively simple lift went expensively wrong, thanks to a contractor using a smaller crane than the job demanded.

There has been much discussion about the new rule governing the way cranes are operated in the USA and, in particular, the effect it might have on how crane operators are certified.

The design and fabrication experts at Lift-It Manufacturing have set another milestone in what could be considered the largest, synthetic bridle fabricated. The 108 ton rated bridle featured a 5…

The boom of a large boom truck crashed onto the roof of a home in Phoenix, Arizona, yesterday after it broke free from the superstructure.

A crane operator has died after a fall at a city centre construction site in Melbourne this morning.

Personal protection equipment manufacturer JSP has issued a safety notification after discovering a batch of poor quality counterfeit safety helmets.