Crane Institute of America Partners with Independent Trainers
A Training Partnership program from Crane Institute of America is designed to provide independent crane and rigging trainers with the tools they need to prepare employees for qualification and/or certification. Crane Institute’s Training Partne... Read More
Dangerous Proposal
Valentine's Day was this past weekend, a popular day for marriage proposals. In the fall of 2014, a man in the Netherlands attempted an ill-advised but very memorable proposal involving a mobile crane.
For reasons we may not ever know, a man wante... Read More
Know Your Ground Conditions
A crawler crane erecting wind turbines in Canada last fall turned over while traveling from one to another. Witnesses reported “The crane was moving over the wet and uneven ground when the tracks appear to have sunk at the back, causing th... Read More
Formula for a Forklift Accident
An untrained operator attempted to reposition a telehandler on uneven ground while three workers were being lifted on a pallet.
(Story on Heavy Lift News)
Aerial lifts are designed to lift workers safely to elevated workplaces. Although not specifi... Read More
Avoidable Deaths: The Rest of the Story
Two workers were killed in Winters, California when the personnel basket they were in fell 80 feet. Cal OSHA cited Disney Construction for $106,100 after finding that
The cranes involved were not properly inspected
Workers were not trained
... Read More
Pick and Carry Sounds Good in Theory
Cranes & Access reported on a crane overturn in Lichtenstein, Germany in March. The crane was traveling close to the embankment of a stream when the swinging load (a large concrete panel) caused the crane to overturn.
Some cranes can l... Read More
What Really Happened?
Heavy Lift News reported on an incident in the UK where an all-terrain crane's outrigger damaged three cars.
There are two sides to every story: the factual one, and the side of the person who did something wrong or made a mistake and won&rsquo... Read More
Mistakes, Accidents, or Incidents?
Recently Heavy Lift News published the editorial Those Who Fail to Learn the Lessons of History Are Doomed to Repeat the Mistakes of the Past.
We are not sure you can call them mistakes, and we sure can't call them accidents. Cranes don't ... Read More
Albeit a Big One, It's Still Just a Boom Truck
In May Cranes & Access reported that a boom truck overturned in New Jersey.
It appears to have been caused by all the wrong conditions: the crane was
In the grass
Near power lines
Boom over the front
0% outriggers
Even if th... Read More
