Safety

A barge mounted crawler crane has overturned on a canal on Marco Island in Florida, the second such occurence in just over two years.

This spring at Bauma, Manitowoc is unveiling two new Grove rough-terrain cranes: the RT550E and RT770E. The two cranes have new features that improve efficiency on the job site.

A man aged 45 has died after falling from an aerial work platform that was struck by an overhead crane at a facility in Bobstadt, north of Mannheim in Germany, last Tuesday.

Strong winds in Montreal over the weekend caused a large mobile crane jib and hook come into contact with the 27 storey building it was parked alongside in Montreal, Canada, breaking four large windows.

A five axle Faun AT has overturned on a construction site in Lilleakerveien, Oslo, Norway.

A Rough Terrain crane overturned at a reservoir operated by Louisville Water Company in Kentucky yesterday.

A helicopter has crashed into a luffing jib tower crane in Vauxhall, London, bringing down its jib. The crane is a Comedil owned by the main contractor Brookfield multiplex.

At the end of 2012, Terex Port Solutions successfully commissioned a Tandem Lift Assistant at Rendsburg Port Authority GmbH, Germany.

Maximum Capacity Media, publisher of Crane & Rigging Hot Line magazine, announces that the Association of Crane & Rigging Professionals (ACRP) will continue its endorsement of the annual Top Trainer…

The operator of the crawler crane that collapsed in New York on Wednesday has been blamed for overloading the crane. A statement from the Department of Buildings claims that the crane was lifting a load of 23,900lbs (10.8 tonnes), when the crane’s maximum capacity was around half that amount.