by admin | May 14, 2016 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
A construction worker operating a large cherry picker was crushed to death when he came in contact with a concrete slab in an industrial accident at Moscone Center in San Francisco early Friday, police said. The man, who was not identified, was in the bucket of the...
by admin | May 12, 2016 | Equipment & Construction Videos, Heavy Equipment, Crane & Construction Accidents, Workforce News
A construction worker was killed Wednesday morning in Rowlett when a large JCB telehandler fork lift overturned, pinning him beneath it, police say. VIDEO HERE The 36-year-old lift operator was unloading a tractor-trailer at an apartment construction site near Scenic...
by admin | May 12, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Workforce News
The Real Deal reports NYC’s union vs. non-union construction battle intensifies as financial and political ‘perfect storm’ takes hold. In the 1970s, union members had a monopoly on New York City’s skyline. At the time, card-carrying union workers made up a stunning 90...
by admin | May 12, 2016 | Constuction & Business News, Crane & Lifting News, Workforce News
Panel of appellate judges sides with city in long-simmering legal battle over how crane operators get licensed According to Crain’s New York a construction union lost a years-long court battle with the city over crane-operator licensing Tuesday. But despite the...
by admin | May 11, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Equipment Rental News, Workforce News
CHICAGO — An employee is suing a group of companies, alleging negligence led to him being injured. Ryan R. Burke filed a lawsuit March 24 in Cook County Circuit Court against BP Products North America Inc., Novaspect Mechanical Services LLC, Jacobs Engineering Group...
by admin | May 10, 2016 | Crane & Lifting News, Workforce News
Students in Hibbing Community College’s (HCC) Industrial Systems Technology program participated in a weighty learning exercise recently. The lesson was lifting more than 1,000 pounds by crane. “What the students are learning, in addition to safe rigging and...
