The man, who was a carpenter's helper, was killed on Jan. 30, 2006, while assisting the crane operator in removing pins that secured the lattice boom's 40-foot center section to the base boom section.

National Crane’s NBT45 truck-mounted crane can reach up to 142 feet with its five-section boom. When equipped with a 55-foot boom extension, the combination provides a lifting tip height of 204 feet ...

Texas failed to get through 2021 without more fatal crane accidents, continuing a trend that began decades earlier, public records show. Following a 2019 crane collapse in Dallas that killed a woman ...

With the 6-section boom of 203.4 ft and a single-cylinder pinning telescoping system, XCA150_U has a maximum lifting capacity of 150 USt, the maximum lifting height of 303.5 ft., and maximum working ...

The new Link-Belt RTC-80130 Series II 130-ton rough-terrain crane is the largest rough-terrain Link-Belt has ever produced, it says. The new crane uses a five-section, 162-foot formed boom that is ...

A Boom Booster lift enhancement system has been developed by Terex for its 650 tonne capacity class Superlift 3800 lattice boom crawler crane. It follows on from the original Boom Booster for the much ...

Side view shows the three interconnected boom sections of the fully assembled and operational “proof-of-concept” CompoTech/RTI carbon fiber composite telescopic crane. Photo Credit, all images: ...

The Scharrel community wind farm at Saterland’s Ostermoor bog in Germany needed to install wind turbines that reach a hub height of almost 489 feet – the largest models of the E-101 series. For the ...

Companies would hire out 6-ton cranes with 17-metre booms. Jib sections - stacked either side of the crane had to be first lowered to the ground with a davit arm in order to connect them together ...