Safety

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.

Duro Felguera has supplied a Linden Comansa flat top tower crane to help build part of its Petronor oil refinery in Muskiz, Spain.

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

NCCCO also announced that it had been granted continued accreditation by ANSI for its previously accredited programs: Mobile Crane Operator, Tower Crane Operator, Overhead Crane Operator, Rigger Level I, and Signalperson

The managing director of a failed construction company has been fined £80,000 plus £18,495 costs following the death of an employee caused by a crane overturning while overloaded.

The Utsunomiya District Court sentenced a 26-year-old man with epilepsy to the maximum term of seven years in prison Monday for killing six children in a mobile crane accident last April in Tochigi Prefecture, even though his condition played a factor in the accident.

A incident with a loader crane at Ipswich docks on Friday night has left one man dead and another seriously injured.

A loader crane went over in the small town of Rælingen, to the east of Oslo, Norway last week. The cause? – poor outrigger set up.

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