Terex Cranes has launched the CTL 650 F45 luffing jib tower crane marking its entry into heavy luffing jib cranes.
30.06.2012
Japanese crane and access manufacturer Tadano has fired a vice president at Tadano America for embezzling over $9 million.
11.06.2012
SafeWork Australia is looking for public comment on its draft code of practice governing equipment supply.
07.06.2012
UK based Fairview Crane Hire has finally ceased trading as the directors focus on other businesses.
24.05.2012
The owner of a trailer lift and the engineer who inspected it have been charged with Negligent Homicide in Norway
Romanian access rental company T&T Solutions has been declared insolvent and a trustee appointed.
A New York judge has put an end to an attempt by tower crane erector William Rapetti to get his licenses back.
21.05.2012
The on-going legal battle between Valla cranes and JMG and its owners has now been settled.
A crane operator was stabbed to death on Saturday by a rival for cutting rental rates in Coimbatore, India.
20.05.2012
The sentences for the 2009 tower crane collapse in Liverpool, UK, have totalled around £480,000.
13.05.2012 1
A follow up to the PTS Hire bankruptcy, the previous owners look set to pick up the assets and start again.
30.04.2012 4
In the past 10 days we have had several calls regarding UK crane man Lee Rowe and a move to Canada.
29.04.2012 10
Two thieves who stole a trailer lift in Fife, Scotland have been jailed after they were caught with the help of U-Tube.
27.04.2012
Jimmy Lomma has been acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges for the fatal collapse of one of his tower cranes in New York in 2008.
26.04.2012
UK rental company Plant Access and Tool Solutions Ltd, which trades as PTS Hire has filed for insolvency.
11.04.2012 3
OSHA has cited Bath Iron Works of Maine, with $171,300 of fines for breaking safety rules, including using aerial lifts without harnesses.
02.04.2012
Malta’s Health and Safety Authority has said that it will carry out random inspections of tower cranes.
In the USA federal OSHA has cited telephone conglomerate Verizon for the maximum fine of $140,700
20.03.2012
The UK CPA, says that in principle, it is in favour of an annual roadworthiness test for mobile cranes.
19.03.2012
The UK’s Health & Safety Executive has delayed its cost recovery scheme, due to have started in April.
15.03.2012
The inquest into the fatal Battersea, tower crane collapse in 2006, has returned a narrative verdict.
13.03.2012 1
An incorrect manual appears to have been at the root of the fatal 2006 Battersea crane collapse in London.
06.03.2012
Italy has updated its regulations on the safe use of work equipment under the Italian Health & Safety Act.
Singapore based crane group Tat Hong has settled the dispute over its Chinese joint venture JZTH.
05.03.2012
