Safety

Operators of the Comansa crane being used on the La Pepa bridge construction in Cadiz Spain have easy and safe access to their cab via a Geda 2 PK crane-operator lift.

A Rough Terrain crane fell into a river from a temporary bridge in Osaka, Japan, killing the operator yesterday.

Word is coming in of brand new 250 tonne All Terrain crane being dropped during unloading at a port in Uruguay.

Liebherr Great Britain is adding a new Thorough Examination of Mobile Cranes training course at its training centre in Biggleswade, England.

The Bloomberg administration is considering letting operators of giant tower cranes get their license without any prior New York City experience — a sensitive topic in a city where cranes have collapsed and dropped loads of steel near busy sidewalks.

New York City is ordering contractors to lighten the weight carried by cranes across the city on the heels of an accident at the World Trade Center last month in which a crane cable snapped, dropping thousands of pounds of steel 40 stories and crushing a flatbed truck, according to DNAinfo.com.

A man died in New Hampshire yesterday after the scissor lift he was working from was struck by the hook of a crane.

Mike Parnell, president and CEO of Industrial Training International, Woodland, Wash., is the latest in a series of high-profile speakers to confirm their services to MCM Events’ second Crane & Rigging Conference (CRC) Canada, which will return to Edmonton, Alberta, and it will be held at the Sutton Place Hotel on Sept. 13-14, 2012.

Earlier this month a new tower bolt suffered a catastrophic failure, the crane was working at the time and the initial report suggested that the failure was caused by fatigue, even though it was new.

A small crawler crane has overturned while working on the demolition of earthquake damaged buildings in Christchurch, New Zealand on Saturday.