by admin | Jan 20, 2017 | Constuction & Business News, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
ABC7NY reports, a federal investigation into the Manitowoc MLC300 crane collapse on the Tappan Zee Bridge last year found that there were major problems with the vibrating hammer being used at the construction site. The Occuptional Safety and Health Administration...
by admin | Jan 19, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
Craig — An All Terrain crane was involved in a single vehicle rollover crash at about 10 a.m. Wednesday on Colorado Highway 64 about 12 miles east of Rangely in Rio Blanco County spilling diesel fuel at the scene. A 2009 8-axle AT crane being driven by Casey Sanders,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
A San Rafael-based engineering firm and an ex-foreman face misdemeanor charges in a 2015 fatal construction accident in which an employee was crushed to death near the side of Highway 101 by a 7,800-pound concrete pipe. Sonoma County prosecutors allege Maggiora &...
by admin | Jan 18, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
WAUSAU (WAOW) – A 38-year-old worker killed at a steel factory was unhooking a girder from an overhead crane when the girder fell and toppled, striking him, a spokesman for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Tuesday. The accident...
by admin | Jan 15, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
According to a report released by the Texas Department of Transportation, the contractor for the Interstate 30/S.H. 360 Interchange Project determined that operator error was the official cause of when a Lorain LRT 350 Rough Terrain Crane tipped over in Arlington, TX....
by admin | Jan 6, 2017 | Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents
Donald Craig, 57, of the insolvent Craig Services, was found guilty of health and safety breaches over a deadly incident on 20 June 2012 when an Italian manufactured Bizzocchi articulating boom lift collapsed in Glasgow killing one worker and seriously injuring...
