Safety

Two UK contractors, Bowmer & Kirkland and Bingham Davis have been found guilty of breaching health and safety laws following the collapse of a tower crane in Liverpool in 2009. They will be sentenced on Friday.

A crane operator died yesterday after the boom truck he was operating overturned at the dockside in Seward, Alaska. The operator, Feliz Morales, 52, was reportedly lifting nets from a boat, when his crane overturned, he was pronounced dead at the scene.

OSHA has elevated the status of the signalperson to an even more critical position within the crane crew. In fact, the Cranes & Derricks rule, passed in the fall of 2010, has eliminated the “casual” signaler altogether.

Dawes Rigging & Crane Rental of Wisconsin, USA, a member of the All Erection & Crane Rental Family of Companies, has been named as a finalist in the 2011 Wisconsin Corporate Safety Award.

SAFETY FIRST: Construction boss James Lomma (right) sent opposing lawyers a link to this photo of his company’s cranes being used to hoist the space shuttle, after he beat criminal charges in the deaths of two workers.

Jimmy Lomma has been acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges stemming from the fatal collapse of one of his tower cranes in New York in 2008.

A reader from the Philippines has sent in a photo of a group of construction men working from some sort of scaffold in Manila.

The Florida Crane Safety Alliance, supported by OSHA Alliance and several Florida crane and construction trade associations will conduct a Crane Safety & Education Seminar. June 7, 2012, in Dania Beach, Fla.

A truck mounted crane tipped over while working on the town hall in Trussville, Alabama yesterday. The reason? The photos that we have been sent clearly indicate the lack of any outriggers

Spanish tower crane manufacturer Jaso has announced a new tower crane for sites where space is restricted.