Safety

The recovery plan had to be quick and precise with attention to safety and detail during the lifts. The job was completed sucessfully without incident.

The 34 year-old operator was employed by APM Terminals and was loading steel sheets on trucks at the port when the crane tipped over.

The register has been created following concerns over crane safety in Britain. Tower crane collapses have killed eight people in the past 10 years, including a member of the public, and injured many more.

Comansa, Jaso, Liebherr, Manitowoc-Potain, Terex and Wolffkran have backed the objectives of the two-year-old standard, said CECE. They include increased safety, minimum requirements for noise emissions, ergonomic design and comfort for the crane user

This system can detect the angle, weight of load lifted and ground radius of your crane. The crane is fitted with multiple sensors for each of the measured parameters which are then displayed in the operator’s cabin to keep them informed.

This is Gerry Wiebe creator and senior blogger at www.craneblogger.com sending you all a year end message and one last video to view before Christmas 2009.

SCDF had to use an airbag and another crane to extricate the trapped worker.

Yesterday two workers died when they fell 50 feet in a elevator car attached to the crane.

The largest Potain tower crane ever erected in Indonesia, an MD 1100, has been put to work at a shipyard in Medan, North Sumatra.

I want to suggest that maybe it’s time to consider designing seats in a manner that would aid survivability in the event of a collapse. Seat belts just on the lap would add to this survivability.