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Not the first crane accident for city, or equipment owner. 08:45, AP. The crane is owned by the New York Crane & Equipment Corp., one of the city’s most widely used crane providers, officials said.
Their report stated that the crane's 190-meter (620 ft) long boom was not sufficiently secured by its operators so as to withstand the high winds present on the day of the collapse and that use of that crane in those 80–105 kilometres per hour (50–65 mph) winds was well outside the manufacturer's recommended operating parameters. [33]
Replacing an advertising poster in London using an aerial work platform. An aerial work platform (AWP), also an aerial device, aerial lift, boom lift, bucket truck, cherry picker, elevating work platform (EWP), mobile elevating work platform (MEWP), or scissor lift, is a mechanical device used to provide temporary access for people or equipment to inaccessible areas, usually at height.
The XGC88000 crawler crane, unlike the majority of crawler cranes, comes in two sections. The primary section consists of the crane itself, which boasts a maximum boom length of 144 meters, a maximum total length of 173 meters (including the counterweight radius), a maximum height (when fully erect) of 108 meters, a lifting capacity ranging between 3,600 and 4,000 tons [10] [11] [12] (although ...
A crane on top of a high-rise building fell to the ground as a 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the Philippines on Friday, 17 November. This video shows the construction equipment collapsing on top ...
[2] [3] Three Iron Workers Local 8 members, Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr, were killed when the suspended personnel platform in which they were observing the lift was hit by the falling crane. [3] [4] A safety inspector was filming construction of the stadium on that day and captured the collapse on video as it occurred.
The inaugural Cranes Asia conference is to take place in Singapore from 9–10 December 2009 [6] Cranes Today publishes its Fleet File every summer, usually in the June edition. Fleet File is a database of who owns what in the crane industry. In 2009 it included entries from 500 companies owning more than 38,000 cranes in 50 countries. [7]
A form followed. This provided the hirers would pay for recovery expenses. Ipswich Plant did not sign it on this occasion. The crane sank into marshland and got stuck in the mud. British Crane recovered the crane with considerable cost. British Crane argued that the unsigned form was incorporated into the oral contract, given their previous ...